Henry at the gates of Balmoral

Visiting Balmoral wasn’t nearly as interesting as visiting Sandringham – no nice policemen came to ask us what we were doing.   #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.

House prices skydance in one street in Bracknell

There’s a newish estate in Bracknell where all of the roads are named after birds.  Each of the signs has a picture of the bird and a QR code, which takes you to the relevant page on the RSPB website. Apparently, this was all the idea of a local councilor, perhaps to make up for…

Jeremy Deller confirms attendance at Hen Harrier Eve event

Jeremy Deller is a Turner Prize-winning artist, one of whose works is pictured above (and another below). I talked to him back in the autumn. Jeremy has just confirmed he can attend the Hen Harrier Eve event in the Palace Hotel in Buxton on the evening of 8 August (before a Hen Harrier Day rally…

Henry goes to Walshaw Moor/Wuthering Moors 48

I thought that Henry ought to see Walshaw Moor before he reads about it on pages 149-157, 175-176 and 190-192 of Inglorious – conflict in the uplands. But all this talk about the damage that heather burning does to peatlands (see here and here) reminds me that the RSPB has an outstanding complaint in to…

A few comments on Yorkshire Water’s position

I am very grateful to Yorkshire Water for their full and quick response to my approach to them. If only the statutory sector were as quick! Here is the response from Yorkshire Water’s Andrew Walker copied below for ease and then some comments by me.   “You are right to be concerned about rotational heather…