filbert cobb is a regular commenter on this blog and has been since its early days (since February 2012). I suspect filbert cobb may not be his real name. He wrote a brilliant guest blog here two years ago (The Sunken Garden) and I have been looking forward to his next one – and here…
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That’s another £10k I owe myself!
I love it when the tadpolers wheel out their chair, Ian Coghill, to say something. I know we are in for a real laugh. Here’s his latest rambling offering which might have a point but feels more like a circle to me. The issue isn’t Chris Packham it’s the BBC and how they are ‘as…
Somewhat typical
Yesterday evening, in response to this blog post, a new commenter, neil p, posted the following comment: ‘You’ve had relative success with your petition in upland rural constituencies because that is where you and your supporters have carried out biased leaflet drops through front doors. That way you can paint the picture, as you are…
I worry about them…
This is Brian – Brian is another Hen Harrier who has gone missing in his first few months of life when travelling around the driven grouse moors of one of our National Parks. You can read about it here and here. I’m a bit worried about some other Hen Harriers. First we have Finn… …no,…
Chris Packham and the nasty brigade
Chris Packham has come through a BBC investigation unscathed it seems. Hooray! But Ian Botham seems not to have forgotten the trouncing that Chris Packham gave him on the Today programme (back on 11 August) as he was quoted in the Sunday Times, ‘This decision is a risible whitewash. Yet again it shows the BBC’s…
If they were coloured like this…?
This beautiful psychedelic Hen Harrier was drawn by Sue Brewer who writes: ‘I’m a writer, most of my books are on collectables or are novels, but I’m intending shortly to bring out a natural history themed book. I am very interested in the natural world – as a toddler I used to collect caterpillars, hunt…
Plaque-gate – the plaque that fell from heaven?
Yesterday’s unfolding story of the blue plaque attached to a multi-millionaire’s shooting hut seemed to catch the imagination of many of you. In brief, there’s a blue plaque celebrating a Sport England funding award on a building that received no such award. This blog can imagine the building and its plaque becoming a tourist attraction…
Birdwatch magazine
In the October issue of Birdwatch magazine (available in all good newsagents, by subscription and in digital format) readers will find a cut-out letter to send to their MPs asking them to ask Defra what measures the government intends to put forward in the Westminster Hall debate on banning driven grouse to deal with the…
Did someone nick a plaque?
This morning I blogged about this plaque on this building in the North York Moors National Park. The building is a shooting hut or lodge and the plaque is one of those that indicates funding from the Lottery – in this case through Sport England. I’m grateful to the media team in Sport England for…
Petitions update
Online e-petitions are becoming a major way that opposition to government policy is now voiced. Certainly they are vying with wildlife NGOs, journalism and the opposition political parties as the main voice of public criticism. It is striking how many of the e-petitions on the Westminster parliament website are about wildlife and wildlife protection. Here’s…