I’m sure you share my gratitude to our politicians that they have handled this difficult issue so well and that the environmental issues wrapped up in our future have been given such a high profile over the last almost three years. It makes me very proud of the UK.
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Which way is BASC facing on Hen Harrier killing?
I gave BASC some credit for their rapid condemnation of the killing of Hen Harriers after the publication of the analysis of the NE satellite-tagging data. But now that Duncan Thomas has voiced his views, presumably his employer’s views too, on TV, along the lines of ‘there’s a tiny amount of persecution occurring and we…
Wuthering Moors 83
The Walshaw Moor Estate has withdrawn its clearly flawed planning proposal for a new track across Walshaw Moor. This brings to an end the latest chapter of this long-running story in which this blog has played its part. And this article in the local Burnley Express shows moorland monitors visiting Walshaw Moor.
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust press release
Give Peat a Chance and Save the World Yorkshire Wildlife Trust are launching a national appeal to restore the ‘brown and broken’ Yorkshire peatlands to their former glory in an effort to combat climate change and flooding. Buckden Pike. Photo: Gordon Haycock Peatlands are the most iconic of Yorkshire’s landscapes, but 80% of them are…
Paul Leyland – Eristalinus aeneus
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Paul writes: This is one for my “Insects seen while Birdwatching” list. It was at Titchwell at the weekend. After spending time in the first hide watching Avocets I had a quick check on a patch of flowering Alexanders in a sunny spot outside and this is what I found. It’s the first time I’ve…
Feral Daffodils revisited
Urban Daffodils brightening the day in Oundle We are in Daffodil season again – getting towards the end of it in these parts. And, for me (I’ve written about this before), there are good Daffodils and bad Daffodils. Good Daffodils are either wild Daffodils, and there aren’t any of those around here, or urban/garden Daffodils….
Tim Melling – Red Panda
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Tim writes: I have posted photos of Red Pandas before but this was an unusually confiding wild individual that I thought it was worth sharing. They spend most of the year hidden in bamboo thickets, venturing into the trees in autumn in search of berries and rosehips. This one was down a bank so I…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Environmental glories?
Shooting Times – the gift that keeps on giving…
It’s almost as though Shooting Times has been set up to provide weekly evidence to support Wild Justice’s legal challenge of the General Licences… There appears to have been no attempt to use non-lethal means before popping away at this bird, and it is just a little unclear as to what issue listed in the…
Birds on stamps
The Royal Mail is issuing a set of stamps of birds of prey. Ten species are featured – all four falcons that nest in the UK, both the accipiters that nest in the UK, both the eagles that nest in the UK and the Buzzard and the Red Kite (which both nest in the UK)….