A life-long birder, Charlie Moores co-founded Birders Against Wildlife Crime and is a former trustee of League Against Cruel Sports. He writes and makes podcasts about wildlife and the environment. Twitter: @charliemoores So I’m in the kitchen at home, mid-2015. Thinking about things. I’d like to say about Hen Harrier Day or bettering my efforts…
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Looking back at 2019 – November and December
The Conservative party won a crucial general election with a slogan, and a manifesto woefully short of environmental policy. This was because the electorate vote with their hearts not their heads and Labour had not given enough people an emotional reason to vote for change. But the slogan will prove to be false and the…
Looking back at 2019 – August – October
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August is always a busy month and this was no exception. Wild Justice organised the biggest Hen Harrier Day event ever – attended by at least 1500 folk. And it was fun. This was closely followed by a meeting with Natural England during which the Petitions Committee, after a curiously long delay, published the latest…
Looking back at 2019 – April – July
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The end of April for me, and on this blog, was somewhat dominated by Wild Justice winning its case against Natural England on general licences. Here are just a few blogs on the subject Wild Justice wins its first legal challenge, Statement by Wild Justice, Wild Justice’s legal challenge – how the case progressed, Nice…
Looking back at 2019 – Jan – March
I was out on 1 January last year doing a winter farmland bird survey where I was rewarded by first hearing and then seeing a Wood Lark in east Northants. That was a good way to start the year. A post on 2 January predicted that it was going to be a bad year for…
Tim Melling – Black-browed Albatross
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Tim writes: the parent Black-browed Albatrosses build a huge egg cup-shaped nest out of mud so they usually only nest next to streams where they have a ready supply of mud within beak’s reach, but they will repair and re-use the nest in subsequent years. On the Falklands where I photographed these, Black-browed Albatrosses lay…
Steve Backshall MBE
Congratulations to Steve Backshall for his MBE in the New Year Honours for services to charity and wldlife conservation. I know that he has done a great job as a supporter, and since 2016 a patron, of the World Land Trust. If the Honours system has any value, and I am not really convinced, then…
Fake news (8) by Diogenes
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Guest poem by Mark Stewart
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Mark is a short story writer focusing on nature, conservation, history and speculative fiction. His poem was partly inspired by the wonderful work Greta Thunberg has done to help raise awareness of climate change issues. The Berg Undone by the sun By warmth I should never know My very essence leaking away Like mist before…
There’s money in Jay feathers
Smart bird! Quite a looker. Those blue feathers are very attractive aren’t they? And you can buy Jay feathers – not from a Jay of course but from various sources on the internet. Some of these vendors make great play of the fact that the feathers are ‘ethically sourced’ from licensed gamekeepers ‘in accordance with…