We are going to have to wait a little while or a long while to see the results and findings of the long-awaited analysis of the Hen Harrier satellite-tagging study that you and I (as taxpayers) have funded for many years. However, it already looks as though the findings could be the dynamite to blow…
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This will be dynamite.
After years of pressure from this blog and RaptorpersecutionUK Natural England has released a complicated Excel table of Hen Harriers’ last satellite fixes, in the middle of the night and with no media release or mention anywhere. This coincided with the presentation of … something … we don’t quite know what, and NE don’t want…
Sunday book review: Bird photographer of the Year (collection 3).
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I was one of the judges for these awards – the judging was in early January and the book is out and was selling well at the Bird Fair last weekend. That’s pretty good going. The cover photograph, of American Flamingos at a flamingo sanctuary in Madrid, and by Pedro Jarque Krebs from Peru, was…
Tim Melling – Capercaillie
Tim writes: I haven’t seen a great many Capercaillies, and most of my sightings have been fleeting glimpses of birds disappearing into the forest. But this Capercaillie was different. This was one of those so-called rogue male Capercaillies that was pumped full of testosterone and ready for a fight. I had to get down low…
A rather dull, not very technical, technical update.
This post explains some things that are going on behind the scenes of this blog and asks for your views. This blog has published almost 5,500 posts since it sprang into life in April 2011. I’ve written most of them although there have been plenty of guest blogs (see here for guidance if you would…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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More cool Coul news
A group of environmental and wildlife conservation organisations (Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Plantlife, Marine Conservation Society, National Trust for Scotland, RSPB and Scottish Wildlife Trust)issued the following press release just before noon today; Scottish Ministers have “called-in” plans for a golf course at Coul Links near Embo, East Sutherland after deciding that the case is of…
The secretive Hen Harrier study – the story drags on
For ages, and ages, and ages our big brother of a blog, RaptorPersecutionUK and this blog have been asking NE when they are going to publish the results of their long-lasting Hen Harrier study. One of my first blogs on the subject was back in May 2012 when I was barely out of short trousers….
Guest blog: BirdFair for all by Amy-Jane Beer
Dr Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist and nature writer, based in North Yorkshire. My summers follow a familiar structure. The rampant joy of May, the hot and heady days of June, the awful realization in July that cuckoos and swifts are already looking south and that it can’t last. But in August, a holiday allows…
SNH spin
I’ve been sent this passage from two SNH staff (the versions differ by a few letters and commas – I’ll put that down to transcription errors) – that they say was put out on the internal SNH intranet by their Director of Operations, Nick Halfhide, following the withdrawal by the Scottish Raptor Study Group of…