Two more Red Kites have been confirmed by Scottish Government testing to have been illegally killed in north Scotland. Both of these incidents took place in 2014 and are now being made public as the Police have concluded their enquiries. The first victim was found last June near Beauly, and was subsequently confirmed by post-mortem,…
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A cap on Hen Harrier numbers
The future of driven grouse shooting in the UK is going to depend rather more in the end, I suggest, on its wider environmental impacts, than it is on its harmful impacts on birds of prey, especially Hen Harriers. However, illegal raptor persecution is a massive problem that this government and previous governments have…
Do you agree with H&OT on brood meddling?
Rare Bird Alert are repeating their poll of earlier in the year and asking whether you agree with the Hawk and Owl Trust’s position on brood management of Hen Harriers (I don’t). It will be interesting to see what the numbers are this time around (here are last year’s). I hope the H&OT get…
Inglorious
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I spent quite a lot of the Bird Fair signing copies of books – particularly of Inglorious. This led to lots of conversations with lots of nice people about Hen Harrier Day, Hen Harriers, shooting organisations and driven grouse shooting. There were quite a few ‘Well done!‘s, a lot of ‘What next?‘s and quite a…
More Bird Fair reflections
Continued from yesterday… 4. The Food and Drink Things changed this year and the main, central, ‘foodhall’ area was completely different. Several outlets selling noodles, burgers, fish and chips, churros, bacon baps etc. I can’t say I sampled them all – nothing like! – but what I did have was pretty good. I’d say,…