Wasp discovered by volunteer at RSPB Loch Lomond is a first record for Scotland Sam Buckton is a volunteer at RSPB Scotland Loch Lomond. He set himself a challenge to record 250 new species for the reserve this summer. So far, he has found 315. One of the species is a first record for Scotland,…
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RSPB begins to lose patience with grouse shooters
The RSPB held a ‘debate’ on the future of grouse shooting in Westminster last week. You can listen, though it is difficult to hear everything, and it is quite long, to the ‘debate’ here. It’s a pity there isn’t a video because then we could all check on the accuracy of the reports that the…
Paul Leyland – Blue-winged Tachinid
Paul writes: I came across this beautiful fly last week, along a wide footpath through the woods near Allerston in North Yorkshire. July is a great time for finding flies feeding on umbellifers, the flowers are at just the right height for comfortable viewing and there are lots of them in the right habitat. There…
Sunday book review – Bird Cottage by Eva Meijer (translated by Antoinette Fawcett).
Review by Miles King. Miles works for People Need Nature, and writes about nature on his blog. One of the unexpected bonuses of being a regular writer is that publishers’ PR agents send you books, for free, in the hope that they will be reviewed, perhaps even favourably. Even if that writing is only a…
GWCT called out over spin
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust is in serious trouble over its spin. See this series of tweets from Jeff Knott, RSPB Director of East England (and former species policy officer at The Lodge). All the above tweets come from current or past RSPB staff (one of whom was also an ex-GWCT staff member). I…
Tim Melling – Stoat
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Tim writes: what’s the difference between a Weasel and a Stoat? I remember the old joke from my childhood about one being weasily recognised as the other is stoatally different but they are not easy to separate unless you get a good view. Weasels are small, from head to tail ranging from 21-27cm including a…
Saturday cartoon by Paul Thomas
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Rattled, rattled, rattled!
It’s a bit of a pity that today’s Farming Today piece was introduced as a legal challenge to Pheasant shooting because it isn’t – it is a legal challenge against Defra and their failure to assess the ecological impacts of gamebird releases. But apart from that I’m happy with the interview I did for Farming…
Wild Justice blog: GWCT stung into limp, unconvincing defence of their members
See this Wild Justice blog post.