Oscar writes: this was taken at Minsmere, where there are around 1500 pairs of Black-headed Gulls nesting on The Scrape this year. While I was there most pairs had chicks. These are the target of several predators, including big gulls and Marsh Harriers (see next week for this photo). Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls…
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You can almost walk from North Foreland in Kent to Lands End, Cornwall along the south coast of England sticking to constituencies with over a 100 signatures for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. But Chichester, on 99 signatures, is a bit of a blocker for a little while. I’ve never been to the…
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Another 1000 signatures – we reached 54000 yesterday. That was quite a slow 1000 signatures but I predict we will have at least a couple of quick ones in the next week, and at least a couple more in the next week. But we will see, we will see. The MPs from the latest additions…
Tim Melling – Mountain Ringlet
Tim writes: the Mountain Ringlet (Erebia epiphron) is our only truly Alpine butterfly, living high on mountains in Cumbria and Scotland. It must have been one of the first butterflies to colonise Britain as the ice retreated, but ironically it was one of the last to be discovered (25th June 1809 on hills above Ambleside,…
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This map of signatures for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting (approaching 54,000 signatures) is endlessly fascinating for me – I’m that type of guy. You can see that a lot of the support is coming from large rural upland constituencies near grouse shooting areas, and that much of the rest comes from…