A big thank you in advance!

    A big thank you to all those involved in organising Hen Harrier Day events this year – it’s a lot of work, I know. On Saturday there are events at: RSPB Rainham Marshes Sheffield RSPB Loch Leven Glenarriff Forest Park   On Sunday there are events at: RSPB Arne Dunsop Bridge, Lancs Isle…

Hen Harrier Day in Sheffield on Saturday

After meeting in the Derwent Valley in 2014, the #sodden570, and then assembling in the Goyt Valley in 2015, followed by a gathering in Edale last year, the Peak District area Hen Harrier Day event is slap bang in the middle of Sheffield this Saturday. The event will be ‘chaired’ by Liz Ballard, CEO of…

OneKind social media campaign

I’m glad I’m a member of OneKind – and I’m looking forward to reconnecting with their Chief Exec in Boat of Garten on Sunday at Highlands Hen Harrier Day. This feisty organisation has launched a social media campaign for the month of August. The idea is that we tweet images of wildlife, any Scottish wildlife…

NT has been prompted into saying something – but not much

This appeared on Twitter a little while ago. The offer is still open to the National Trust to do a better job of explaining why they want to persist with grouse shooting on their land (for they don’t have to).  Copy deadline tomorrow evening so that it could appear before Hen Harrier Day and well…