Sporting Gun is never going to displace Birdwatch, British Birds or British Wildlife from my affections but I am thinking of subscribing just to keep an eye on the more moderate and sensible end of shooting. A friend who shoots (yes – imagine it!) brought me back a copy from the Game Fair – they…
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Waitrose drops lead from game meat sales
See this piece in The Guardian. Well done to Waitrose who, eventually, have taken a lead on lead. By the 2020/21 shooting season all game will be lead-free in Waitrose. As well as giving Waitrose massive credit for this move, much credit also needs to go to those scientists and members of the Lead Ammunition…
Wild Justice and general licences
Wild Justice wrote to Natural England and Defra last week to warn them that legal action would follow next year if they do not take account of the legal issues raised in the Wild Justice legal challenge of general licences (see Wild Justice blog with details). Given the time that the legal process takes, and…
International Bog Day (yesterday)
Yesterday was International Bog Day which reminded me that I recently got an email from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust thanking me for my donation to their peat appeal – an appeal which raised over £47,000 for peatland restoration work. And here’s the team saying thank you! You don’t get many 3-second videos! I notice there…
Ticks
Ticks – even talk of them is enough to make one itch. Remember that Mountain Hares are killed in enormous numbers, causing massive population declines, on grouse moors largely because they carry ticks. And the ticks carry the virus that leads to louping ill (in sheep and Red Grouse for starters). So I was interested…
Paul Leyland – Drinker moth
Paul writes: the Drinker (Euthrix potatoria) is a regular visitor to my garden at this time of year, it has a wingspan of 25mm or more so is a real beast of a moth. It usually makes itself known by flapping wildly at a window or may even fly through if the window is open….
Hen Harrier Day – 2 weeks today
If you want to learn more about the plight of the Hen Harrier and the motives of those who so ruthlessly persecute it, then read my book. My publisher tells me that the paperback (updated 2016) edition is down to its last 250 or so copies in the warehouse so they will soon be gone…
Tim Melling – Great Shearwater
Tim writes: Great Shearwater was my final one of the regularly occurring bird species that I managed to see in Britain (back in 1990). Though it is very rare in Britain away from the Southwest, and even there it only occurs in late summer/early autumn after strong westerly gales. Most bird migration is generally in…
A second Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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This cartoon was drawn for Scottish Environment Link – see here for their thoughts on rectification at source.
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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