I caught myself feeling a bit disappointed with how quickly the signatures for Chris Packham’s petition were amassing the other day – but it is just two weeks of existence and well over three quarters of the way to the hoped-for 100,000 signatures. That is a fantastic rate of progress – let’s not forget. Here…
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Another conversation with BASC members
It was the Sunday morning after the Friday evening about which I have already written. And when I say it was the Sunday morning it most certainly was but it was closer to the coming breakfast than the past supper and I was just leaving the bar of a Buxton Hotel, after plotting the downfall…
Ending week 2
It may seem longer, but at 4:25pm or so today we will have completed two weeks of this petition. It would be nice to have reached 80,000 signatures by then but I guess we’ll still be a little short of 79,000. In 2016, when we reached 100,000 for a similar petition in c20 weeks, at…
Please scan this QR code and sign the petition – thanks!
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If you point the camera on your smart-phone at this QR code is will take you straight to the petition to ban driven grouse shooting – then you can read it and decide whether or not you’d like to sign it (please do). We’re on 77,600+ signatures and we’ve not yet completed two weeks. that’s…
Ban driven grouse shooting
Download this poster from here or from Chris Packham’s website, print it out and then display it somewhere, please. At work? In a shop window? At a local wildlife event? I’m sure you can find somewhere – please do. Time is short as there is likely to be a general election called soon-ish and then…
RSPB press release
RSPB calls for immediate halt to mountain hare culls on back of shocking new report Government agency statement on status of protected species and habitats shows alarming decline in species’ population New data published by the EU revealing the condition of Scottish protected species and habitats has revealed the country’s mountain hare populations have experienced…
Bank Holiday Monday book review – Dancing with Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard
This is a book about rediscovering, and reconnecting with, nature, as an adult. The preface sets the book up well and establishes the engaging tone. The author rediscovers all sorts of wildlife but bees are the co-stars of this account. I know Brigit a little, and this book is just what I expected: enthusiastic and…
Paul Leyland – Rhingia campestris
Paul writes: Rhingia campestris is one of the most recognisable hoverflies, it’s often known as the Heineken hoverfly and was the subject of a very early post of mine on Mark’s Blog. I described it then as common and widespread throughout the UK. In only 2 years things have possibly changed dramatically. The drought of…
Song of the Skydancer by the Talkin Fellas
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From their album, Gather at the Lek, here is a track about raptor persecution by the Talkin Fellas (and see here too). Gather At The Lek by Ian Ryding, Nick Dodds, Mic Mayhew
Tim Melling – Cetti’s Warbler
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Tim writes: I’m old enough to remember when Cetti’s Warblers were a very rare bird in Britain. The first one ever to be recorded in Britain was in 1961 and breeding was confirmed in 1972. But since initial colonisation numbers have increased to around two thousand singing males. But most of these are in the…