The weather forecast is looking good – maybe a few light showers? Derbyshire Police Rural Crime Team will have a stand and be delighted to talk to you about wildlife crime issues. Derbyshire Wildlife Trust have produced an amazing small book of children’s writing on Hen Harriers – on sale on the day. The speaker…
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Hen Harrier breeding season in England and the licensing issue
The RSPB has revealed, ahead of Hen Harrier Day on Sunday, that as well as the five nests producing 22 fledged young in the Forest of Bowland, RSPB staff were involved in a partnership (for the fifth year in a row) in Northumberland where this year three successful nests (out of six attempts) produced nine…
Natural England begging for your money
Natural England is crowdfunding to carry out its statutory responsibilities. This public body is now crowdfunding for habitat management of sites such as Castle Hill National Nature Reserve (and Site of Special Scientific Interest and Special Area for Conservation for heavens sake!) on the outskirts of Brighton. According to Natural England this is ‘arguably the…
Farming today, yesterday
Farming Today irritates me a lot – and it would iritate me often if I listened to it often but its timing means I am usually finishing the first piece of work of the day prior to making the first cup of tea of the day. But sometimes, as with yesterday morning, I give it…
Interim good news
The Glover review is showing a bit of ankle and it looks quite attractive in some ways. The trouble with these sneak previews of reports is that one knows that they are aiming to give something to everyone and that the full report might not be so attractive and, in any case, it all depends…
A day’s birding in Norfolk
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A high tide on the Norfolk coast was the excuse for spending Saturday at Titchwell – but who really needs an excuse to be on the east coast in August (even early August)? For normal people, early August is summer – near the beginning of the school holidays and a break from work. For birders…
Record July for this blog
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With 118,748 pageviews of this blog in July that is the third highest month of all time (only August and September 2016 were higher). Thank you to all who read, comment and contribute to this bog in any way.
Theresa Villiers’s Countryfile Live speech
Not much to quicken the pulse here https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/environment-secretarys-speech-at-countryfile-live-2019
RSPB press release
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One good tern deserves … four others as rare birds hatch on the Welsh coast Good news on The Skerries, off Anglesey, where four roseate tern chicks have hatched to two pairs of the elegant seabirds This is the highest number of roseate chicks on The Skerries for 29 years The successful hatching and fledgling is…
A bright Pallid future?
In 2017 the first pair of Pallid Harriers to nest in western Europe was reported from the Netherlands (see here). After no further nesting in the Netherlands in 2018 it might have seemed that this was a remarkable and amazing one-off event but the evidence is that Pallids are spreading west, not so slowly but…