Which way did you vote? It comes to something when I am slightly relieved that it might be Theresa May who is running the country! The Brexiteers didn’t have a clue what they were doing – or so it seems – except they knew what they didn’t want. But they didn’t have a route map…
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
A bit rainy
What a fine looking male – Henry anyway! We’d been sussing out filming locations in the North York Moors one day last week and we needed a nice cup of coffee so, by chance, we visited the Milburn Arms Hotel where we did have a very enjoyable cup of coffee. OK, it wasn’t completely by…
48,000 – put the guns down, walk away from the guns!
Today our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting reached 48,000 signatures. Thank you to all of you who have signed, asked your friends and relatives to sign, supported the promotion of the e-petition financially and helped in many other ways. There has been quite a surge in signatures from Scotland recently and a bit of…
June
It may have been a wet June but the sun was shining on this blog. With a little under 30,000 unique visitors and over 113,000 page views this blog had its second most successful month ever (in terms of those measurements). The most successful was April 2016.
FC England take the lead (out)
Forestry Commission England have done what they said they would do, and from the opening of the deer and boar culling season the vast majority of all such animals culled on FCE land will have been culled with non-toxic lead ammunition. The very small exceptions will be areas where the sporting rights have been retained…