Here is a listing of almost all the posts here in the past calendar month. It’s arranged by topic with news and comment items at the top and regular features towards the bottom. A very few published posts don’t appear at all.
Hen Harrier Day, Inglorious 12th and e-action:
- 31 August: 123,678 e-actions
- 29 August: 100,000 e-actions – thank you!
- 27 August: An update on English constituencies and the e-action
- 27 August: A response to the e-action from the new leader of the LibDems, Ed Davey
- 27 August: Labour steps up, DEFRA steps away
- 27 August: A ministerial response from Wales
- 27 August: How many Hen Harriers bred in England this year?
- 26 August: E-action: you’re not impressed
- 25 August: E-action – Northern Ireland
- 25 August: E-action – top Welsh constiuencies
- 24 August: Thank you Mr Pursglove
- 24 August: E-action – 10-point plan to respond to your Conservative MP
- 24 August: Simply the best – Caroline Lucas in conversation with Chris Packham
- 24 August: Dear Mr Eustice – a burning question
- 21 August: E-action – a good standard response from Labour MPs
- 20 August: E-action – take three responses
- 20 August: E-action – response from Scottish Conservative MSPs
- 20 August: E-action – response from Scottish Green MSPs
- 20 August: E-action – a response from Plaid Cymru
- 20 August: E-action – standard response from Labour MSPs
- 19 August: Reasonable response from Wera Hobhouse MP
- 19 August: E-action – new, less awful response from Conmservative MPs
- 18 August: An update from Wild Justice on e-action
- 14 August: Looking back on the last week…
- 14 August: Good response to our e-action from Tim Farron MP
- 13 August: Dear Mr Pursglove
- 12 August: Thoughts on today’s Inglorious 12th
- 12 August: Come on Scottish government!
- 12 August: Labour calls for grouse shooting to be licensed
- 11 August: The Inglorious 12th
- 10 August: Criminals show their backsides to Scottish government again
- 10 August: The Tory response to our e-action – pathetic!
- 10 August: Hen Harrier Day online
- 5 August: The nest protectors by Inkcap
- 7 August: Hen Harrier Day online tomorrow
- 3 August: Hen Harrier Day online – this Saturday
Raptor persecution:
- 13 August: Questions and answers in Scottish parliament
- 10 August: Another disappeared eagle – from RPUK and Chris Packham
- 5 August: Just call me 202000070343
- 4 August: Let’s hope not
- 3 August: Dear First Minister – what you told Nicola Sturgeon (2)
Other and mixed:
- 28 August: French get sniffy about glue
- 26 August: Wild Justice comments on DEFRA/NE/BASC/GWCR/University of Exeter gamebird review
- 26 August: Very pleased
- 25 August: Birdwatch – September 2020
- 24 August: Flying a Kite in east North Northants
- 19 August: Swifts
- 18 August: If you’re really bored
- 17 August: NE and BASC are friends
- 17 August: British Wildlife- August 2020
- 14 August: The milk of avian unkindness
- 13 August: Natural England and crowdfunding
- 13 August: Letter in Guardian on lead
- 7 August: Natural England’s specific general licences from 2019
- 7 August: Scottish petition – Beavers
- 7 August: An interesting paper
- 6 August: What is happening to the Moorland Association?
- 6 August: Where is the review of gamebird impacts?
- 6 August: GWCT fact-checking website – does it measure up?
- 5 August: Cornwall Badger Project vaccination crowdfunder
- 4 August: In the garden
- 4 August: This petition is flying – Decathlon
- 4 August: Pallids in Pas-de-Calais
- 4 August: It’s the silly season on grouse moors
- 3 August: News from the grousers
- 3 August: Just saying…
- 3 August: Riches not beyond measure
- 1 August: Honours List
- 1 August: July 2020 on this blog
Guest blogs:
- 31 August: Musk Ox by Guy Shorock
- 31 August: A stranger’s short diary on encountering the grouse and pheasant shooting industry for the first time
- 29 August: The Scabby Plant by Jane V. Adams
- 19 August: Beavers by Nonie Coulthard
- 18 August: Six Cultural Questions by Laurence Rose
- 17 August: Right to Roam by Nick Hayes
Book reviews:
- 2 August: Snared by Bob Berzins
- 9 August: The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes
- 16 August: The Common Buzzard by Sean Walls and Robert Kenward
- 23 August: Life Changing by Helen Pilcher
- 30 August: Orchard by Ben Macdonald and Nicholas Gates
Paul Leyland:
- 9 August: Hoverflies on Umbellifers
- 16 August: Myathropa florea
- 23 August: Common Darter
Tim Melling:
- 1 August: Redstart
- 2 August: Willow Tit
- 15 August: Long-eared Owl
- 22 August: Wrong legs?
- 29 August: Lammergeier
- 30 August: Spotted Flycatcher
Press releases:
- 21 August: Langholm Initiative
- 17 August: Beaver Trust
- 17 August: Beavers, Scottish Rewilding Alliance
- 13 August: Trees for Life, Golden Eagle
- 7 August: Red List Mammals from the Mammal Society
- 6 August: Press release from GWCT
- 1 August: Leigh Day and Chris Packham HS2
Cartoons by Ralph Underhill:
And all that added up to a fairly average August with 113,000+ pageviews and 25,000+ users.
August is usually the busiest month on this blog but not so this August – perhaps it’s the lack of a Bird Fair, perhaps a lack of physical Hen Harrier Days or maybe it’s COVID or maybe it’s me.
But August was the sixth month this year (out of eight) to have exceeded 100,000 pageviews in the month – last year there were four out of 12, so this blog is having a storming year.
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