Standing up for Nature
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…
This must be one of the weirdest ever Wallcreeper photographs. They breed on remote cliffs, usually at low density, and that largely grey plumage makes them difficult to spot, unless they fly to reveal their red, black and white wings. In all my years of birdwatching I haven’t seen very many Wallcreepers, but each of…
Two years ago today, near the bank of the Ohio River which forms the border between eastern Ohio and western West Virginia, there was a blow-out at a gas well owned by XTO Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, which took 20 days to get under control. The gas well was about to be put into…
I like the Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker – have a look at what they write about the DEFRA Secretary of State’s (now former Secretary of State’s) visit to flood-stricken Hebden Bridge – click here
Extensive use of toxic lead paint on Big Ben contributes to £19m price-hike in renovation. I’m pretty sure that there isn’t 6000 tonnes of lead in Big Ben but that amount is added irretrievably to the countryside every year. And, of course, shooters all over the country, through choice not necessity, have been shooting toxic…
Well, well, well. Off goes the Chancellor saying that no self-respecting minister would allow the PM to dictate who his aids should be, which must make Rishi Sunak lacking in self respect. It is very broad-minded of Johnson to replace an alumnus of Downend Comprehensive with a Wykhamist though. Rishi Sunak, as MP for Richmond,…