Today I have been mostly titivating my evidence to the House of Commons Petitions Committee inquiry into grouse shooting. And commenting on what others plan to send in. But it has been a lovely sunny day so that ‘work’ has been punctuated with other things. For example I cut the grass… And I looked at…
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A wonderful Green Sandpiper again
Did you read this blog about a Green Sandpiper who travelled from a cress bed in Herts to its breeding grounds near Trondheim in Norway? Well this is the bird itself (above). Barry Trevis took this photo a while after he had removed the GPS tag which held all the fascinating information on the bird’s…
Powerful evidence
Thank you to many of you who have let me know that you have submitted evidence to the House of Commons Petitions Committee inquiry into grouse shooting. You have today, tomorrow and Wednesday to do the same. There will be few more powerful pieces of evidence than this one from Alan Stewart. Thank you Alan!…
Oscar Dewhurst – Lion
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Oscar writes: I’ve just got back from a field course by my Biology course at Durham University which was held at a game reserve in South Africa. The work was pretty full on for the 10 days I was there, but we did have a couple of afternoons off where we did game drives in…
Writing competition – International Wildlife winner, Hugh Webster
Hugh Webster is the winner of the International Category in this blog’s writing competition. A copy of Remarkable Birds is in the post to him. Hugh writes: I recently took a break from teaching and returned to work for the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust (on twitter @BPCTcamp) as a research coordinator, living and working in…
An early review of Remarkable Birds
Thank you to Matt Merritt for this review in that other birdwatching (actually, Birdwatching) magazine. Remarkable Birds by Mark Avery is published by Thames and Hudson.
Tim Melling – Orcas
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Tim writes: Orcas are amazing animals that live in family groups where every animal is a blood relative, so no spouses allowed. Each family group has distinctive vocalisations that they recognise, so they can socialise with groups they get on with, and avoid those they don’t. Liaisons between groups are when they mate, but animals…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Your task, should you choose to accept it…
Your task this weekend, should you choose to accept it, is to submit evidence to the inquiry on grouse shooting – for details of how to do that see here. ‘Submit evidence’ sounds a bit scary doesn’t it? How about ‘Send your thoughts’ instead? You could do that couldn’t you? Look at Question 1 –…
Conservative MPs – Firm Briefing 19
As Conservative MPs set off to Birmingham for their party conference I thought it would be worth identifying a few Conservative MPs and their responses and lack of responses to your emails and letters on the subject of driven grouse shooting. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP (The Cotswolds, 288 signatures) – chair of the APPG on Shooting…