Here are the most recent published annual incomes of most of the local, county, regional or national Wildlife Trusts. Avon Wildlife Trust £2.3m Beds, Cambs & Northants Wildlife Trust £4.5m Berks, Bucks and Oxon & Wildlife Trust £5.4m Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust £0.8m Brecknock Wildlife Trust £0.2m Cheshire Wildlife Trust £1.8m Cumbria…
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This is who has what
This morning I set you a little teaser: put these organisations and their incomes together. Here’s the answer: RSPB £137m WWF-UK £71m WWT £24m GWCT £7.2m BTO £5.8m Butterfly Conservation £3.7m Marine Conservation Society £2.9m Plantlife £2.8m Buglife £1.1m What do you make of that?
Farming Today, today
I’m staying with friends wondering whether Peregrine Run is a good bet in the 2:50 at Cheltenham this afternoon, so when I woke at around the fairly usual 05:15 I didn’t wander down the landing to my computer and start some work. Instead I used my ‘phone as a computer and listened to Farming Today…
Who’s who?
Here is a list of environmental organisations, in alphabetical order: BTO, Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, GWCT, Marine Conservation Society, Plantlife, RSPB, WWF-UK, WWT And here is a list of their incomes, in numerical order; £1.1m, £2.8m, £2.9m, £3.7m, £5.8m, £7.2m, £24m, £71m, £137m Can you match the incomes to the organisations? Answers this evening,…
Black v Red
The moorland where we watched Black Grouse display yesterday morning – we saw about 40 birds altogether – also holds Red Grouse. The Black Grouse were displaying and singing but the Red Grouse were behaving like the silent majority in the early morning. Let’s say there are around 100 Black Grouse at this site (maybe…
Birding in North Wales
I had headed up to North Wales on Sunday afternoon for our early Monday-morning start to enjoy the wonders of a Black Grouse lek. I called in on the ‘Lake’ site for Hen Harriers that I mention in Inglorious (see Chapter 5) but there were few signs of spring in the mountains of Snowdonia. I…
Yesterday morning
Yesterday morning, as the light grew but before sunrise, I was looking at one of the greatest birding spectacles on offer in the UK – a Black Grouse lek. I was in North Wales with friends and expert bird guides Alan Davies and Ruth Miller and the displaying male Black Grouse were only 20m away….
Is driving grouse legal?
There’s probably nothing in this thought, but it keeps coming back to me. Is driving a moorland legal? We know that shooting a Red Grouse is legal, within the open season, but is it legal to get a line of people to walk across a moorland waving flags and blowing whistles and disturbing every living…
Oscar Dewhurst – Stoat
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Oscar writes: This is another from my time at Minsmere during the Spring. I spent several days scouting a set of holes where I knew Stoats were, and for the first two days had no success whatsoever. Fortunately, on the third day they became a bit more active, although this was as much of them…
My first singing Chiffchaff of 2017
I visited my local patch yesterday morning thinking that it was about time I heard a Chiffchaff singing – and I did. It was a slightly pathetic song; less a ‘chiff-chaff-chiff-chaff-chiff-chaff’ than a hesitant ‘Chiff-ummm- chaff-chaff-chiff-chaff’ but it was a Chiffchaff, not for example a Great Tit (some of whom can do a proper Chiff-chaff…