This is a Buzzard, just a Buzzard. The Buzzard is in some ways the least exciting of our birds of prey being less dashing than any of our falcons or Sparrowhawk, and less exciting than eagles, harriers, kites etc. But it’s a nice bird, circling around on thermals and looking for carrion or a range…
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Press release – Thriving Hive study
Two weeks – 82,000 signatures
The joint NGO campaign to get a binding target for nature in the Environment Bill has raised over 82,000 signatures; 72,000 in Week 1 and 10,000 in Week 2. That may not sound great, but if you have been paying close attention, as I have, you’ll know that the first four days of the last…
I responded to the DEFRA gamebird consultation
DEFRA’s consultation on their proposed gamebird regulation is a shocking example of pretending to do something worthwhile whilst failing to do anything much at all. This is the worst consultation from government I have ever seen – it is so unshamefacedly biased. If we hadn’t all got used to it by now it would be…
Sunday book review – Out and About, Discovering British Wild Flowers by Deidre Shirreffs
This is a book allegedly aimed at 6-12 year olds but I found it suited me fine. Each year I tell myself, with less and less conviction each year, that I’ll learn a few more plants and I try, but somehow each Spring finds me re-learning the same species over again. This simple photographic guide…