Here is an update on three e-petitions about grouse shooting: Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting – 23,700+ signatures Jane Griggs’s e-petition supporting grouse shooting – 13,200+ signatures Ed Hutchings’s e-petition in favour of licensing grouse shooting – 1500+ signatures Gavin Gamble’s e-petition had a good Christmas thanks to social media…
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Wild food (22) – Porcelain fungus by Ian Carter
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It’s worth getting to know this spectacular species for several reasons. It can grow in abundance on old Beech trees so, once found, you are likely to have enough for a decent meal. It tends to persist into the winter, even after the onset of cold weather has ended the season for most other species….
Sunday book review – Killing by Proxy by Alan Stewart
Alan Stewart MBE is a retired police inspector with a wealth of experience in investigating wildlife crime. This is his fourth book on the subject. Here is a quote from the author’s introduction ‘On driven grouse moors there is little evidence of change. While the licensing of shoots may help, the only real solution…
Tim Melling – Common Blue
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Tim writes: this is a male Common Blue resting in a sea of Bird’s-foot Trefoil, which is also its larval foodplant. This is a second brood individual photographed in late August, which is the offspring of the generation that was on the wing in June. I took the photograph at the RSPB’s new reserve…