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Bird Fair – Friday debate on driven grouse shooting.
Are you coming to the Bird Fair in August? Come on the Friday and you can attend a debate on whether we should ban driven grouse shooting with myself and the leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett on one side and a representative of the GWCT on the other with, we very much hope,…
Slovakia – Day 3.
Many people would think of owls and woodpeckers if they think of Slovakia bird trips. We visited the Eye of the Sea, Morské oko, and walked around the attractive lake and then up to the top of a hill through the ancient beechwoods. No owls that we could see but plenty of woodpeckers: Grey Headed,…
Slovakia – Day 2
This is the Senne fishponds SPA – and has been the subject of an EU Life project. Can you almost hear the waterbirds singing when you look at that photograph? This was a day with warblers coming out of our ears: Barred, Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Marsh Warbler, Icterine, Grasshopper,…
M&S #spiritofsummer
M&S are handling their grouse meat issue spectacularly badly. They say they have an ‘industry leading’ Code of Practice – agreed with an organisation funded, to a large extent, by grouse shooters but not supported by a proper conservation organisation. That hardly inspires confidence, does it? And they are so proud of this industry leading…