Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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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
Dear Mr Cantlay
Dear Mr Cantlay Your standard letter on the subject of the Raven cull, which I received yesterday, is a poor thing. Whoever drafted it for you isn’t doing a good job. Your letter slides around the subject in a most unappealing manner. You seem to want to justify the licensing of your Raven cull on…
Raven cull – hopeless SNH
Many of us have had this standard letter from the chair of SNH: Thank you for your recent correspondence on the subject of the issue of a research licence to the Strathbraan Community Collaboration for Waders. I welcome that so many people in this country care passionately about the welfare of all our wildlife…
Guest blog – Dead from the neck down by David Elias
David Elias is now retired but worked for RSPB, NCC and CCW mostly as a warden on various reserves. He also spent some time working in a national park in Malawi. His last stint was on the Berwyn Mountains in North Wales – so hen harriers are close to his heart. He lives near Bala…
Flowers we can pick (3) – Primroses
I was slightly surprised to see Primrose on Plantlife’s list of flowers it is OK to pick – I’m not sure why really because this is the third (out of three so far) of the ‘Plantlife 12 pickable species’ that I get in my garden! But I’ve always put Primroses on a bit of…
#justice4henharriers
Things are moving, though not incredibly quickly, with our legal challenge to brood meddling. I’ll be getting a full update from our lawyers today. Another snippet from my witness statement:
This evening
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British Birds, May
In the May BB there are many other interesting articles as well as the important paper on Peak District raptors (or lack of them) mentioned earlier. What was the origin of the term ‘jizz’? Apparently the explanations that have often circulated are simply nonsense! What fun! This is an interesting article by the Greenwood brothers,…
I’m a bit puzzled
I know, or at least I think I know, that Ian Coghill recounted a tale of what Michael Gove had said to him, Nick Downshire (chair of the Moorland Association) and Amanda Anderson, to a room which consisted largely of grouse moor managers. I know this because the intelligence rapidly trickled back from that meeting…
Forest of Bowland AONB – get a new logo!
Forest of Bowland AONB, get a new logo! Or even better, use your good offices to help the Hen Harrier, the bird featured on your signs (see above), to recover in numbers in your patch. In a recent online poll I asked readers of this blog which of three logos they thought were most appropriate…