General Licence response

If you wish to respond to the consultation on the General Licence (in England) then you have until the end of next Monday to do it. The General Licence does what it sounds like it does. Instead of having to apply for an individual licence to kill some wildlife, and justify it on a case…

Catfield Fen – again

I have previously blogged about Catfield Fen on 30 May 2012, 22 August 2012, 10 September 2012, 30 September 2012 and 6 August 2013.  These things do drag on don’t they?  Many readers of this blog emailed the EA on this subject last year – for which I thank you, and for which I have…

Oscar Dewhurst – Red-legged Partridge

Oscar writes: This was taken during the spring at RSPB Minsmere. I spotted a group of Red-legged Partridges in the long grasses. Taking my camera off its tripod, I lay down, and started to crawl towards them. I never really got into a position from which I had a completely clear view, but this was…

A Message from Martha

In two months’ time, A Message from Martha: the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and its relevance today will be published in the UK. Chris Packham is one of only about half a dozen people who has read it so far and he says: ‘This hugely thought provoking and important book is the kick up…