I’m afraid that I won’t be attending our Appeal hearing tomorrow – along with some of the legal team there are personal reasons connected to coronavirus for me being absent and the government advice has certainly become a lot clearer about travelling. I feel bad about this as I want to be there (who knows…
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Nature conservation under coronavirus
Our wildlife conservation organisations are small, medium or large businesses within one very particular sector. I ‘phoned around a few of them today to ask what they are doing as a result of coronavirus. Just about all of them said that they were sticking to government guidelines – and they are all waiting for, and…
Champions still flying
Back in 2016 I was a member of a Champions of the Flyway team in a rather special bird race in Israel (see here). Birders from all over the world gather in Eilat, Israel and compete in a very friendly way to see the most birds in a 24-hour period. And they raise money for…
Tomorrow we are in court
Tuesday and half of Wednesday are set aside for our (and the RSPB’s) appeal against the judgment of Justice Lang on brood meddling. I’m planning to be there – government travel bans permitting. There will not be a single Hen Harrier in court but we are taking this case for them – Hen Harriers can’t…
Sunday book review – The Birds They Sang by Stanislaw Lubienski
This book has a Polish author and many stories of Polish ornithologists, artists and writers. Since I first visited Poland last year, for a family reason, I was predisposed to these parts of the book. I enjoyed hearing of painter Jozef Chelmonski and then Googling his works, and greatly enjoying some of them and not…