This is my latest book: Wings Across the Atlantic: a year in the life of two old birders. About Wings Across the Atlantic It is essentially a re-run of the book, Birds of a Feather by Colin Rees and Derek Thomas (see my review – click here) 11 years later with Colin based in Maryland,…
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Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 13 by Nick MacKinnon
Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…
Guest blog – Blanket bogs and windfarms by Jenny Shepherd
New petition to amend Planning and Infrastructure Bill and protect irreplaceable blanket bog from big onshore wind farms A new parliamentary petition, launched a fortnight ago, calls for amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that will ban windfarms on protected peatland in England – click here. The difference from the previous petition to ban…
Press release – Large landowners in Scotland may need to plan for biodiversity gain by Scottish Rewilding Alliance
New law says large landowners in Scotland need to set out biodiversity plans, in ‘big step towards a Rewilding Nation’ Yesterday MSPs in the Scottish Parliament voted to create a law obliging the owners of large landholdings to publish plans on how they will increase biodiversity, as part of the new Land Reform Bill –…
On (but not on) Walshaw Moor
If there were a fan club for Walshaw Moor then I’d be a member, despite never having set foot on it. I have passed it on the roads, stopped and looked at it, been glared at by its gamekeepers and spoken about it in meetings in both Hebden Bridge and Haworth and even won a…