THE UNDEAD (Siberia, 2020) Pete Howard has worked in Nature Conservation for the past 20 years, mainly in species monitoring and protection for the RSPB. He lives in north Cumbria, where he is regional Bird Recorder and Vice Chair of the Cumbria Bird Club. He is also an irredeemable butterfly fanatic. Pete is a published…
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From the Unusual Christmas Gifts Company
Dear Sir Thank you for your enquiry regarding potential gift orders this Christmas. Your true love is certainly going to have a festive season to remember! Here at the Unusual Christmas Gifts Company we like to believe that we live up to our name and we go to enormous lengths to source special and dramatic…
In court, virtually
Friday found me watching a computer screen from 10:30am to 4:30pm to watch the Wild Justice challenge to the lawfulness of Natural Resources Wales’s general licences. In theory this was in court in Cardiff but I am not sure that anyone was in Cardiff. There were many attendees from ourselves (the Claimant), NRW (the Defendant)…
Bird/poultry flu update
A lot more cases in wild birds – mostly Mute Swans; … and one more in poultry – a backyard flock; …and a case in the far north of Scotland, in fact in Orkney; So now, it seems to me, that the counties with positive records for wild birds (shaded pink) and the locations of…
Tim Melling – Greenshank
Tim writes: Greenshank is a scarce breeding bird of northern Scotland, with about 1100 pairs breeding particularly in the wet, peaty bogs of the Flow Country in the far north. But the Scottish population is a tiny fraction of the European population that breeds in the taiga zone across Scandinavia and NW Russia which is…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Should I say yes?
I get a lot of these – at least one such email a day. If you think I should be saying yes to these unsolicited junkemails then let me know and I could fill this site up with them… Hi Mark, I hope you’re doing well. I’ve been reading some of your content for some…
Today…
Today the Wild Justice challenge of the Welsh general licences is held online in front of His Honour Judge Jarman QC. The great advantages of online attendance of court is that one can shout at the screen, the seats are more comfortable and one can munch biscuits all the time.
Press release – Trees for Life
Scots want beavers moved not shot, new research finds A majority of Scots agree beavers should be moved to new locations in Scotland instead of being killed, according to new research. The findings come as Highland-based rewilding charity Trees for Life seeks to raise £40,000 through a crowdfunding appeal to help protect Scotland’s wild beavers….
State of the UK’s birds
New report reveals declines in UK’s woodland birds New data show long-term declines of woodland bird species Some specialist woodland species have declined dramatically, including willow tit, which has shown the second biggest decline of any widespread UK bird. Numbers of native birds overall are down, with 19 million fewer pairs of breeding birds in…