Standing up for Nature
You’ll be missing out on a treat if you don’t attend the 2019 Bird Fair which kicks off six weeks today. Laughingly called the Birders’ Glastonbury (Tim Appleton plays the Michael Eavis role) it has less music, fewer people, less campaigning and more wildlife. It’s an event that everyone should try once – and that…
Henry Morris and friends are doing an amazing run across the grouse moors of the north of England to highlight the plight of Hen Harriers. In the last two days, Henry, accompanied by a relay of friends, has run 82 miles. He’s half way through but today is the most difficult of the four days…
I’ve been meaning to write this short post for weeks. Regular and long-term readers of this blog may remember that I have had issues with Farming Today – the early morning BBC Radio 4 farming programme. See Farming Today – not today and not tomorrow, 16 October 2018. But those same regular readers of this…
Tuesday’s session where the Secretary of State for Defra chatted to the Efra Committee about general licences was puzzling and fascinating. I’ve listened to it three times now and I’m not entirely sure what is going on. Here is the link to the session. If any readers of this blog wish to help me by…
If you are a reader of the excellent Birdwatch magazine and have glanced at my column in the July issue then you will have noticed that I have cancelled my membership of the Labour Party after almost a decade of membership. I have voted Labour in most elections where I have had the chance to…
NATIONAL TRUST ANNOUNCES IT WILL DIVEST FROM ALL FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES Europe’s biggest conservation charity has just over £1billion invested in stock markets with the returns vital for helping protect and care for special places Majority of fossil fuel equity divestments to be made within 12 months Charity currently makes its own green heat and…
This was Bowland Knotts yesterday evening – it was a lovely clear evening. It’s a pretty deserted place on the road across the moors from Slaidburn to Clapham in Bowland – a few Curlew and lots of Meadow Pipits – but there was a relatively big crowd there at 8am this morning as the Marathon…
Last week I completed my second visit to my second BBS square. It was a pretty standard, slightly quiet visit. But one can only record the birds in front of you and I think I did that pretty diligently. I’ve been surveying this square in east Northants since 2012 and it was surveyed by somebody…
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Today Henry Morris and some friends are going to start running through the grouse moors of the north of England to highlight the plight of Hen Harriers. Henry will be wearing a satellite tag and you can follow his progress as he runs through the hills – follow the run here in real time. Support…