We are 50% through the time and 44% of the way to 100,000 signatures. Pretty good! Thank you all! See whether you can get someone new to sign this e-petition today, please. More on this tomorrow!
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M&S has gone very quiet on grouse meat sales
Is M&S really going to sell Red Grouse meat in its stores this year? Does M&S really have an industry-leading Code of Practice? And if they do why won’t they share it with their customers who have asked? Doesn’t sound as though they are very proud of it? Will M&S name the estate(s) from which…
Hen Harriers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (not)
Wouldn’t you love to be able to see a food pass by a pair of Hen Harriers in a National Park near you? The Yorkshire Dales National Park has much excellent habitat for Hen Harriers – it ought, with the adjacent Nidderdale AONB, to have at least a dozen nesting pairs. Since 2000, there should,…
Oscar Dewhurst – another Little Egret
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Oscar writes: Replace this egret with a Bittern and that is the photo I was aiming for during my week in Suffolk. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be, but this egret is much better than having a photo of just some reeds! It’s the same egret as a few weeks ago, and April last year, shown…
Sunday book review – Summer edited by Melissa Harrison
It must be summer because I am picking elderflowers from which to make champagne. Spring is over, and if you are a birder then you are now in the position of suspecting that any passage wader on your local patch is already heading south after a nest failure (it’s really already autumn!). This anthology is…
Tabloid Twitcher gets award
Express journalist, author and birder Stuart Winter has been recognised by the RSPCA for his work in highlighting animal cruelty. Stuart is a good bloke and knows his birds. His books Tales of a Tabloid Twitcher and The Birdman Abroad are accurate about birding and will make you laugh.
A fitting tribute to the late Malcolm Tait
The June issue of the excellent British Wildlife magazine came through my letterbox today. If you subscribe too, you will find it contains a sad announcement that three weeks ago the editor of British Wildlife, Malcolm Tait, died suddenly. All our thoughts should be with his wife Claire and their family and friends. I have…
Summer readers’ survey
Here’s a short survey – 14 questions (and the last two are about your age and gender) about how you feel about some currently controversial issues. I aim to reveal the results some time in the middle of next week, so please don’t delay if you fancy answering some questions. All responses are anonymous –…
Brian May supports e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
The driven grouse shooting industry may find itself caught in a landslide with no escape from reality when Dr Brian May supports our cause. Join the thunderclap and sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
It’s not a picnic for Hen Harriers this year
Next week, on Saturday 25 June, whether we have voted Brexit or Remain, there will be a Hen Harrier rally to mark this year’s virtual absence of nesting Hen Harriers from the English uplands. Full details will appear here and elsewhere next Wednesday but we have now been told by the organisers that it will…