There are a few different puffball species, ranging in size from the small, spiny, Common Puffball (the one in the photo) and its close relatives, to the altogether more impressive and aptly-named Giant Puffball. The stalks are often mostly hidden underground, though, as here, they can extend to several centimetres. The good news is that…
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Tim Melling – Grizzly Bear
Tim writes: every autumn Grizzly Bears move down to the rivers to feed on spawning salmon, which enables them to put on enough fat to sustain them through hibernation. This is a huge battle-scarred male with a collapsed ear that scattered all the smaller bears when he arrived on the scene. This was taken at…
NEWS: SNP policy is for licensing of shooting estates
Scottish National Party (SNP) delegates officially adopted a policy supporting licensing of driven grouse shooting estates at today’s National Council in Perth, making it certified party policy to support licensing for driven grouse estates. The move adds considerable momentum to the campaign for shooting estate licensing. Ian Thomson said, ‘RSPB Scotland commends the National Council…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (36) by Paul Thomas
Ban lead ammunition
This is good – please support it. I hope we get asked by RSPB and WWT to support it too – I don’t think I have been so far.
Peak District hush-up
You may remember that in a recent public consultation on the way forward, over 40% of respondents to the Peak District National Park future plans mentioned the impact of grouse shooting, heather burning and illegal persecution of birds of prey, on the ability of the National Park to meet its objectives. The Peak District has…
Local issue – further comments
It’s becoming quite a battle to find one’s way onto the East Northants Council’s planning part of their website, and an increasing struggle to navigate through the comments to find what one might be looking for. But these are my latest comments on the planning proposal to build a large set of broiler houses 7…
Three last chances – all close at midnight
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Other people’s e-petitions – a selection
My attention was drawn to the first of these e-petitions by a fellow Northants resident but then I had a little mooch around the site and came across a few others which relate to more local (or in the penultimate case, national) issues rather than UK ones. It’s a fascinating insight into the minds of…