When Charlie Jacobey was telling me what I thought, and occasionally letting me get a word in edgeways, he reckoned that there were just a few bad apples in the shooting industry. I reckoned there were lots. The latest very sad news of a Hen Harrier caught in a trap on a grouse shooting estate…
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Wild Justice and Countryfile
I wrote a blog for Wild Justice here.
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See Raptor Persecution UK – more on this news later today
Guest blog – Volunteers in the conservation sector (2) by Louise Bacon
Volunteers in the conservation sector: Part 2, Building expertise Over the past few years, whilst working within the conservation charity sector as an environmental data specialist, recorder and amateur naturalist, I have attended several seminars/one day conferences etc. asking the question ‘where do we get our next generation of experts from?’. None of those events…
Paul Leyland – Rutpela maculata
Paul writes: I start to see these photogenic beetles around the middle of June and they stay around until the end of August. Rutpela maculata is probably the commonest of the Longhorn (Cerambicidae) beetle family, it is certainly the one I see most often. They are easy to see in the right habitat, their bright…
Mystery birds (3)
How about the bird above? It’s a fairly common species, although I see it less often than I used to do. Yesterday’s two teasers: This bird is a washed-out Robin photographed in a Devon garden recently. It may be leucistic but after reading this interesting paper I am not so sure. But it is a…
A Sunday cartoon from Ralph Underhill
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This cartoon was drawn for Scottish Environment Link – see here for their thoughts on the precautionary principle.
Tim Melling – Dotterel
Tim writes: this was one I took of an obliging male Dotterel on Lancashire’s Pendle Hill in late April. I was particularly pleased with this shot as you can even see the semi-palmations between its toes which are obscured when it is in vegetation. An old Norfolk folk name for Dotterel is “Stone Runner” and…
Sizzling Sandgrouse by Paul Sterry
Paul writes: If you think the UK has been hot of late then think again: on a recent photographic trip to northeast Spain temperatures peaked at 44°C. The aim of trip was to photograph sandgrouse, two species of which – Pin-tailed and Black-bellied – are present in the region. The height of summer, when water…
Mystery birds (2)
I was sent this photo of a mystery bird photographed in a garden in Higham Ferrers (east Northants). It was seen, appropriately enough, on 4 July. I’ve seen this bird in the wild but never as well as this. I was sent a recording of its call too, and that pretty much nailed it.