The GWCT are badgering me to buy a badge of their logo to support their vital conservation work for the Grey Partridge. That’s a more than 50% decline since 1994. Somebody’s not been buying enough badges? This is the GWCT’s best-studied species, by far, I’d say. Now the conservation of widespread farmland species is difficult,…
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Riches not beyond measure
I got this from Pelagic last week. Most publishers do this, they have a minimum amount under which they don’t pay you the royalties earned in a period but carry it over to next time. And I’m not complaining, and certainly not about Pelagic because they pay royalties every six months whereas most publishers pay…
Hen Harrier Day online – this Saturday
This Saturday will see an online Hen Harrier Day like no other. Hosted by Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin, the team that brought you a new, and many say improved, Springwatch, it will have some things and people old and some new, some things borrowed and some things blue, or at least blue-grey. I don’t…
Tim Melling – Willow Tit
Tim writes: this is a recently-fledged Willow Tit that I found on 9th June this year. It was one of a brood of four youngsters being chaperoned by both parents, although they were constantly moving so it could possibly have been five youngsters and one parent. They were contact calling constantly as they slowly moved,…
Sunday book review – Snared by Bob Berzins
As regular readers of this blog will know, Bob Berzins has written several guest blogs here, mostly about goings on in the Peak District but also about other upland areas. This book, written by Bob Berzins, published by Bob Berzins and, because I can’t find an acknowledgement to anyone else in the book, probably the…
Press release Leigh Day and Chris Packham on HS2
Case for HS2 should be revisited despite disappointing court ruling, says Chris Packham Environmental campaigner Chris Packham CBE says the case for HS2 should be revisited despite today’s disappointing Court of Appeal ruling. Mr Packham has spoken out following a Court of Appeal judgment which refused permission on two grounds for a judicial review into…
Tim Melling – Redstart
Tim writes: I know it isn’t a perfect photograph but there is so much of interest going on here I thought it was worth sharing. First of all I was quite pleased to capture a bird in flight feeding its begging youngster, but the fact that it is a Redstart makes it much more interesting. …
After…things I’d like to be different (8)
After coronavirus (which might be quite a long way away), or at least when the world settles down to a new normal, there are some things that I’d like to be different. So over the next days and weeks I’m going to write them down. They will mostly be to do with our relationship with…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Dear First Minister – it’s me again
Dear First Minister I doubt that you have had the time to look through many, if any, of the emails sent to you this week about the young poisoned White-tailed Eagle found on a grouse moor in the Cairngorms National Park. I’ve seen hundreds of them but that, I know, is a small proportion. What…