Many have commented on the magnificent images of Hen Harriers that I use on this blog – most of them are the work of the photographer Gordon Yates (who also wrote a Guest Blog here last year after the ‘mysterious’ disappearances of five male Hen Harriers from active nests in England). Here’s a link to…
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#Remain people include…
Here is a list of #Remain supporters colour-coded by whether I normally feel warm or feel cool to their views (and, fair enough, sometimes I had to flip a coin to decide)(#Brexit list this evening): David Beckham Hilary Benn Natalie Bennett Tony Blair Helena Bonham Carter Billy Bragg Gordon Brown Andy Burnham David Cameron…
Picnic with Henry at Grimwith Reservoir
I’m told that the picnic/stroll/chat about the lack of Hen Harriers in England this year – ‘a tiny handful’ (RSPB) – will be held at Grimwith Reservoir car park at midday on Saturday (this Saturday! Saturday 25 June). It will be nice to meet up with many friends and register our anger at the lack…
Results of that survey
Thank you to over 1500 people who responded to my recent readers’ survey. Here are the summary results. First a few words about how the data were collected. People were asked to participate in four ways: through this blog, through my newsblast, through tweets on Twitter and through Facebook. In all those cases, anyone coming…
Where are they?
Birdtrack provides this interesting facility where one can look at the reporting rates of any species this year compared with the long term average. Reporting rates are the proportion of complete bird lists (for a visit to a location) that contain the relevant species. The data from this year ought to be comparable with the…
Birdtrack – my mistake
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I made a mistake typing something into Birdtrack but this might be a prophecy – it is almost correct for England already…
Half-time!
Our e-petition to get a debate on the future of driven grouse shooting started on 20 March and ends on 20 September – so let’s call this half time. Have a sit down, suck on a lemon, put on a clean shirt, clean your studs, check your shin guards and it’s up and at ’em…
Slovakia
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I know more about Slovakia now, as we prepare this evening to play them at football, and on Thursday to vote whether to Remain in the EU with them, than I did when England and Wales were drawn in the same group as them and Russia in EURO2016. I know: I added White-backed Woodpecker…
Debbie Pain to become CEO of WLT
John Burton, the founder and long-time Chief Executive of the World Land Trust is stepping down and his successor will be Dr Deborah Pain who is currently the Conservation Director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. I hope to persuade John to write a Guest Blog here. For more on Debbie see…
Request for film location
I keep being asked by film companies where they could go to film driven grouse shooting or obtain existing footage to use. Any grouse moors out there wishing to reveal the glories of the Inglorious 12th? Anyone know of locations where driven grouse shooting could be filmed from rights of way or the public highway?…