On Saturday it’s the RSPB AGM – have you booked your place online? This is always an interesting event, and usually a somewhat uplifting one, and it’ll be fascinating to hear the RSPB’s new position on gamebird shooting. At least, I assume it will be a new position after over a year of cogitation. The…
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Sunday book review – the Hedgehog Book by Hugh Warwick
This is a charming book about a species that is being lost from our lives. I haven’t seen a live Hedgehog for several years and there aren’t many squashed on the roads around here these days. Friends and family send videos of hedgehogs if they come across one – this once common species is now…
Sunday book review – A Bird A Day by Dominic Couzens
You can’t go wrong if you slap a gorgeous Audubon on the front of your book and this Arctic Tern is one of my favourites (see p77 Remarkable Birds, which also has an Audubon on its cover). It’s a good start and there are more Audubons sprinkled through the 368 pages of this attractive and…
Tim Melling – Pied Flycatcher
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Tim writes: Pied Flycatcher is quite a scarce bird in my local area so I was quite pleased to find one near Holmfirth. I mentioned it to a friend, who went to look and found three. As the weather was good I decided to go back and try for a photograph and this was my…
Saving Ecuador’s Choco Forest
This autumn appeal from World Land Trust is very special. And if you donate through Andy Langley’s justgiving page then your donation won’t just be doubled, it will be quadrupled in value. Thank you.
Teetering on the brink of 50,000 signatures
The Wild Justice e-petition against the Badger cull is within 100 signatures of that 50,000 threshold which represents the half way point to a Westminster Hall debate. The petition closes on 24 March 2021 – today is Day 9. I feel we are like3ly to getto 100,000 signatures eventually. I can tell you now, I’d…
Guest blog – Quadrupling your donation to World Land Trust! by Andy Langley
Andy Langley is a wildlife enthusiast and supporter of World Land Trust (WLT), who will be doing a sponsored birdwatch this October to raise money for WLT’s ‘Saving Ecuador’s Chocó Forests’ appeal. In October, for the last two years, I have done an all day sponsored birdwatch around Gloucestershire to raise money for World Land…
RSPB’s busy day (2)
The annual RSPB Birdcrime report is published online today – much of the meat of the report is in the Appendices (which I almost missed – search them out). There is a wealth of detail there, including this updated graph which should be widely copied and reused by all. But it is essentially, and sadly,…
RSPB’s busy day (1)
Today the RSPB issued two press releases, one on burning in the uplands, the other on the annual Birdcrime report. It’s a bit unusual for two press releases to come out on the same day but today is the start of the burning season in the uplands and so that timing makes complete sense. I…
RSPB press release – ban the burn
Mayors, councils, local communities, and RSPB unite in support of the call to urgently ban peatland burning on grouse moors. The RSPB is today calling on Government to implement an immediate end to the burning of precious peatlands on moors managed for grouse shooting. The call, which comes on the first day of this year’s…