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  • A week today I’ll be speaking about Hen Harriers at the London Wildlife Festival
  • A week on Sunday is Hen Harrier Day
  • 2 weeks today we’ll all be having fun at the Bird Fair – won’t we? See you there?
  • there’s a very high tide this weekend and Snettisham, Frampton and Titchwell will be lifting with passage waders – see you at one of them?
  • This guy, Jonathan Pie, is quite interesting, and he’s talking to Chris Packham (eventualy, in this video) about HS2
  • Simon Hart has a small job in government so Countryside Alliance is looking for a Chair
  • Are you a change-maker who wants to go somewhere? Churchill Fellowships
  • Wild Justice’s crowdfunder has passed 75% of the target in 50% of the time available – you can help here.
  • I heard Rebecca Speight, the CEO of the Woodland Trust (an from 189 August CEO of RSPB) on Today earlier this week but I can’t remember which day it was or find it to put a link here. She was pretty good, I thought.
  • This song, A Distant Call, about Hen Harriers and moorlands is amazing – it’s from The Artisans and you’ll be able to download it from 12 August – the Inglorious 12th
  • And, yes, I won my bet on the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election
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    1. S – me, Chris and Ruth – that’s the plan. Some time around Saturday lunchtime.

      Unless, of course, the RSPB and Wildlife Trusts ban him!

      1. Hope the Birdfair has put on the necessary security for Charlie, an irate twitcher gets one good good swing with a pair of Swarovski bins and you’re looking at a dislocated jaw, and as for being head slapped with a copy of ‘Birds of the Western Palearctic Volume II’…probably fatal.

      2. Let’s hope not! I’d be more worried about being hit in the face by some throwing a block of Quorn or maybe being hit on the back of the head by a rolled up copy of the Guardian!

        Jokes aside I can’t wait for that debate/interview. Let’s hope Chris’s buddy’s at the BBC can get it some serious coverage??

  2. A long distance runner and team do a fundraiser linking up spots where hen harriers have ‘disappeared’, and now a group do a bloody good song about the ludicrous twelfth, both for Wild Justice. No wonder the pro DGS trolls are out in force and the representative bodies are now scraping into the wood at the bottom of the barrel – Gilruth’s regular letters to the press are utterly woeful – the message is going into the mainstream. Even without any in depth objective analysis of DGS on the telly and the soft treatment it gets on Countryfile etc instead, plus employing expensive PR agencies, the public are wising up, ‘they’ are losing. It was a terrific song, my favourite part was when they made a reference to flooding in the lowlands, of course parts of Yorkshire were badly hit this week as water just poured off the hills. The public start linking that up to burnt, degraded ‘moors’ and I don’t fancy DGS’s chances of being around much longer. And tomorrow off to the Revive conference…….things are moving.

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