Standing up for Nature
I’m doing a fun bit of research using Birdtrack. If you are: a regular Birdtrack user have a few (30?) minutes to spare feel reasonably confident about using the ‘Explore my records’ function on Birdtrack and have any complete lists of birds seen at the following sites Minsmere (RSPB) Titchwell (RSPB) Cley Marshes (Norfolk Wildlife…
I was at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, on Sunday afternoon just as the weather turned nice. And a friend was there yesterday at dusk. At the moment, at dusk, it is a great place to see Hen Harriers as they come in to roost. A group of us had fantastic views on Sunday of several ringtails…
Are things getting better – is raptor persecution decreasing? Let’s start from the basics. Killing birds of prey is illegal, and has been since 1954 (and partly before that). Most killing of birds of prey is carried out by people with jobs in the game management industries where birds of prey are seen, partly rightly,…
A reader has discovered this early draft of the Hen Harrier text for Red Sixty Seven – I prefer Iolo Williams’s version.
It’s interesting to see the new DEFRA minister Victoria Prentis being so chummy, almost flirting, with Tim Bonner at a Countryside Alliance do – the video sound quality is rather poor. But I was glad to hear that in the middle of central England, Ms Prentis had had more letters against driven grouse shooting than…
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A follow up to yesterday’s correspondence… Mark, thanks for replying although you didn’t offer an explanation as to why you would want corvids protecting just as we enter nesting season. I live near *********************, I farm and have a building business. [and then it gets more reasonable and interesting] So I replied… Thank you for…
Yep, this all seems quite likely but not certain. Despite all the flim-flam over the general election, and before from the likes of Michael Gove, Tim Bonner clearly expects the new Secretary of State at DEFRA and the new government to slash and burn environmental protection. It really wouldn’t surprise me if they did –…
Received by email: Mark, you really seem to have no idea of the destruction caused by corvids in particular the magpies during the nesting season! Either that or there is some other agenda namely headline grabbing to keep you and packham in the public eye so they contribute to book sales etc. As for the…
This is a truly lovely book. I’ve blogged about it before, because I knew it was coming, but now I am holding a copy in my hands it is just a delight. The idea is simple, as many good ideas are; there are 67 red-listed species of bird in the UK, let’s get 67 writers…