The Food Teachers Centre has a lot to learn! GCSE students will be taught how to serve up meat containing high levels of lead thanks to the naivety of teachers and the lack of responsibility of the shooting ‘industry’. Shooters are being encouraged by Taste of Game to donate shot game to schools – in…
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Oscar Dewhurst – Glossy Ibis
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Oscar writes: For the second part of our stay we were in El Rocío, in the Doñana National Park. On our first evening I lay down in the grass by the edge of the marsh, and before long a flock of Glossy Ibises came down to feed. Nikon D800, Nikon 400mm f/2.8 VR lens, Nikon…
Sunday book review – Flying High by Anneliese Emmans Dean
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This is a bird version of the same author’s Buzzing which was reviewed here three years ago. Anneliese is a poet, writer and performer and her bubbly personality comes across in her book. It consists of c50 double-page spreads of bird species – in each of which there is a poem and a bunch…
Tim Melling – Marbled Murrelet
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Tim writes: For much of the 20th Century nobody had been able to find a nest of Marbled Murrelet. By the mid twentieth century the National Audubon Society was even offering $100 reward for the finder of the first documented nest as all other nests of North American birds had been found by this…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (13) by Paul Thomas
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A Hen Harrier poem by Anneliese Emmans Dean
A poem by Anneliese Emmans Dean from her new book – see review tomorrow Endangered Silver shimmer Heather skimmer Ring tailer Air sailor Grouse catcher Pipit snatcher Big dipper Trip flipper Sky dancer Slim chancer Hope carrier Hen Harrier
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Hen Harrier Day 2017 – an update
The Hen Harrier Day website – maintained by Birders Against Wildlife Crime – is the place to keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events, but here is an update. Hen Harrier Day celebrates the beauty of this wonderful bird and highlights its threatened status which is almost entirely due to wildlife crime. Hen Harriers…
Let them eat grice! with a side order of lead.
I am grateful to a non-reader of this blog, my mum, for pointing out this joke article in the i newspaper. Patrick Galbraith thinks that Pheasants are the solution to food poverty – and that grouse could play their part too. This follows his witty article on fox hunting being the most egalitarian sport, much…
The July Birdwatch magazine
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The July Birdwatch magazine is now in the shops. My column is about lead ammunition and how Liz Truss’s last action as Environment Secretary was to slip out the government’s response to the lead ammunition report at the very moment that David Cameron was leaving Downing Street. Elsewhere in the magazine is an article…