Saturday 11 August – Hebden Bridge
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Hen Harrier Day – Rainham Marshes 11 August
I’m really looking forward to this. Will I see you there?
Hen Harrier Day – Grassington, Yorks, 11 August
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The Northern England Raptor Forum has organised an event on Hen Harrier Day next Saturday.
A letter to the Icelandic Prime Minister
Yesterday I sent this letter to the Prime Minister of Iceland. The postage costs £1.25. Katrín Jakobsdóttir Stjórnarráðshúsinu við Lækjartorg 101, Reykjavík Iceland Dear Ms Jakobsdóttir (written by hand) Commercial whaling in Iceland I am writing to urge your government to take further steps to end commercial whaling in Icelandic waters. I have watched whales…
Tomorrow, Sheffield kicks off 2018 Hen Harrier ‘days’
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Tomorrow morning Sheffield kicks off a great line-up of Hen Harrier Day events (a week ahead of anyone else!). Last year’s event on Devonshire Green was very good – I’m sure this one will be too. The best of luck to all the speakers – and if you possibly can show your support…
Really…?
… but I suggest we pass on this one.
This new e-petition which mentions grouse shooting is on the UK parliament website – I won’t be signing this one as I think it is badly timed and too broad. But these two petitions are well worth signing: An independent study to find if driven grouse shooting is of economic benefit. End grouse…
Two good petitions…
There are three petitions going the rounds at the moment which refer to grouse shooting. These two are well worthy of support in my opinion: A petition on the UK parliament website which calls for an independent study to assess the economic benefit of grouse shooting – proposed by Les Wallace (a frequent commenter…
Lots of satellite-tagged Hen Harriers
These are some words from Inglorious (written in 2014), they are the imagined words of an ex-gamekeeper writing of the demise of driven grouse shotoing p253-54): ‘In the end, with all that satellite-tag stuff, you could hardly point your shotgun at a bird of prey without fearing it might be a tagged bird that…
Hen Harriers still in the news
Today’s Farming Today is worth a listen (8 minutes in). There is a conversation between the Moorland Association’s Amanda ‘If we let the Hen Harrier in, we will soon have nothing else‘ Anderson and the much more rational and consistent RSPB spokesperson, Cathleen Thomas. Amanda sticks to the nonsense about it being ‘the grouse shooters…