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Defra challenged over ‘unlawful’ release of 57 million game birds in UK.

BASC is probably under considerable pressure from its membership to ‘do something’ about Wild Justice’s potential further legal challenges of the general licences and actual legal challenge to gamebird releases. But there’s not a lot they can do except huff and puff. BASC will tell DEFRA (that’ll go down well) that there is no need…

See here – https://wildjustice.org.uk/general/wild-justice-seeks-judicial-review-of-gamebird-releases/

Yesterday morning, I filled the kettle but paused, before turning it on, to listen. Outside the back door I could hear a Song Thrush singing. Opening the door, and taking a step outside, this single bird’s song was almost the only sound. About 100m away I could see the bird in question near the top…

I’ve been reading scientific papers about burning heather recently. They are a bit heavy going and there seems to be quite a lot of acrimony in this field of learned research – which does, in some ways, make it all the more interesting. I went back, almost four years, and re-read what I wrote about…