Thank you to BBC Wildlife magazine for making Inglorious your Book of the Month and thank you to Charlie Elder for a very kind review. I liked ‘expansive in scope yet forensic in detail‘ and also, of course ‘clearly reasoned and well-written‘. I do believe that the idea of a ban on driven grouse shooting…
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Devon – and I survived
Last week I spent some time in Devon – risky eh?! I even spent some time on the coast. I saw a lot of gulls – big gulls. Really big gulls. And many of them saw me too. I even went to Brixham. And I survived. It would have been ironic to have been killed…
Oscar Dewhurst – Little Owl
Oscar writes: while I was in Richmond Park one evening I was told about a family of little owls with two chicks that had been seen in a small bit of woodland. Next morning I was up at 3.45 to get there for before sunrise, and as I approached the trees I could immediately see…
More on the Game Fair
Yesterday I didn’t go to the Game Fair but the Today programme did. And Farming Today were there too. Farming Today repeated C(W)TG’s Andrew Gilruth’s inability to answer a question here after about 15 minutes. Did you notice how Andrew claimed that grouse moors had been designated because they were teeming with wildlife? He’s such…
Two more reviews of Inglorious
James Attlee in the Independent ‘ Avery is a reasonable man; by his own admission “a wishy-washy liberal” who has engaged in fruitless years of dialogue with the grouse-shooting industry in his efforts to gain concessions. Once roused, however, he proves indefatigable. So far the political connections and powerful lobbying of the industry has maintained the…