In a long piece in the Daily Record on Saturday, Annie Brown (The true cost of grouse shooting) talks about the move to ban driven grouse shooting, and quotes me extensively. In the Glasgow Herald, there is a piece entitled ‘Calls mount for ban on grouse shooting‘ where an animal welfare charity, OneKind, formerly known…
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
What the Sunday papers say
We (I’m not sure exactly who ‘we’ is, but it certainly includes this blog and many of its readers, along with the RSPB, Chris Packham, BAWC, Raptor Persecution Scotland, Raptor Politics and others) have changed the way the media look at the opening of the grouse shooting season – the Inglorious 12th (this year on…
Hen Harrier Eve
The Hen Harrier Eve event in Buxton on Saturday evening was a sell-out and a good time was had by all. My thanks go to Susan Cross, the co-organiser with myself; and the two of us would like to thank a large number of friends, colleagues and partners who helped put the event together. And…
Oscar Dewhurst – Spotted Flycatcher
Oscar writes: this Spotted Flycatcher turned up one day at Minsmere over the Spring in the bushes behind East Hide. I don’t see them much down at home in London so was pleased to be able to get a few images of one here. It was catching flies in the scrub and fortunately this…
All in all it’s just another death on the moor
Suggested by Rachael Conway To the music of Pink Floyd’s Brick in the Wall? We don’t want no persecution We don’t want no brood control An end to killing on the moorland Shooter leave our birds alone Hey shooter leave our birds alone All in all it’s just another death on the moor Ban…