And here are a load more images and words from the RSPB team at Rainham Marshes. Thanks all for a great day! Most of these photos thanks to Guy Shorrock.
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Elsewhere in the media: Moorland Association admits criminality?
In a slightly bizarre piece by Jonathan Leake in Yesterday’s Sunday Times the Moorland Association’s Amanda Anderson, last seen at the back of the crowd at the Hen Harrier Day event at Edale, was quoted as follows, ‘If we let the hen harrier in, we will soon have nothing else. That is why we need…
Meanwhile, in a proper newspaper…
Yesterday’s Observer was rather more up to date in its reporting of grouse moor issues than the Torygraph, pointing out that our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is where it’s all at! Kevin McKenna, under a headline ‘The Glorious 12th? Conservationists turn their fire on Scotland’s grouse moors‘ writes, ‘This year, though, there will…
Joke coverage by Torygraph
The Telegraph’s Senior Reporter, Patrick Sawer, produced a joke piece of news yesterday. Presumably any journalists who know anything about the environment and grouse shooting were at home having a barbecue over the weekend? The article is constructed around the events of 25 July when the RSPB pulled out of the Defra non-plan for Hen…
My first punt at our future agriculture policy
Everyone says that the redesign of agriculture policy post-Brexit is a big opportunity. And so it is. You can make this as complicated as you like, and it is complicated in reality, but let’s start by making it simple whilst not losing the gist of what it’s all about. Currently we taxpayers ‘invest’ £3,000,000,000 per…
Wow! #HHDay2016 and 76,000 signatures
It’s all a bit of a blur at the moment… I left home on Friday lunchtime and have been to Rainham Marshes Hen Harrier Day and The Peak District Hen Harrier Day at Edale. I have heard Charlies Moores speak with passion about being ‘Proud to Care’ and Chris Packham just being brilliant. I saw…
Oscar Dewhurst – Bearded Tit
Oscar writes: I have several photos of perched Bearded Tits, but none of them flying so when I noticed a pair making regular feeding flights to and from the same place, it gave me the chance to have a few attempts. Eventually I managed this one of the adult male with food in its beak….
Oscar Dewhurst – Nightjars
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Oscar writes: I know this isn’t a technically great photo, but I thought I’d post it here just for interest as you don’t see many photos of Nightjars! I spent several evenings up on the heaths watching these. For the first few minutes it was just about light enough to take photos, but still with…
Sunday’s Hen Harrier Day rallies
First off is at Craignure, Isle of Mull at 10:00… … followed by the North West Raptor Protection Group at the village green, Dunsop Bridge at 10:30. RSPB Loch Leven Day 2 at 11:00. RSPB Arne in Dorset starts at 11:00 too. And I’ll be at Edale at 11:00 with Findlay Wilde, Natalie Bennett, the…
Tim Melling – Humpback Whale
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Tim writes: catching a Humpback Whale lunge-feeding is a lot harder than it looks as you can’t usually predict when and where they will appear. But I was on a boat in the Johnstone Strait off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island where the water was clearly teeming with fish. Seabirds were in abundance…