Dear Mr Pursglove As part of your ‘Listening to Corby and east Northants‘ campaign I’m sure you would like to know how I feel about the possibility of a major development at Fineshade Wood. I’m against it! I was glad to see that you too were against it when you were seeking election and I…
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Looking forward to my West Country tour!
I’m talking to the Devon Birds AGM on Wednesday evening (7.00pm at the Exeter Court Hotel, Kennford, Exeter EX6 7UX. The Exeter Court Hotel is just off the A38 on the westbound carriageway. Directions can be found on the hotel’s website here) and to the Somerset Ornithological Society on Thursday evening (7.30pm at Ruishton Village…
The map is almost filled in
That’s the first 24 hours of this e-petition – and we have whizzed past 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 signatures. Thank you everyone! Almost every one of the 650 UK parliamentary constituencies has already got at least one signature registered in it – and the Calder Valley has 32. The map above is hours out…
Humberstone Bank Farm – beyond nature
Yorkshire Water is making an interesting offer – help them improve water quality, water retention and carbon storage on their land while ‘working with the sporting interest’ on an upland farm north of Blubberhouses. Blubberhouses Moor in Yorkshire is mentioned in Inglorious (page 59) as the site where a stroppy rich man, Lord Walsingham, shot…
What a great start – thank you!
When I woke this morning I knew there was something I had to do – check on the number of signatures on the e-petition I launched yesterday. It was around 1pm yesterday that I noticed that the e-petition had gone live – I wasn’t expecting it to happen at the weekend. By the time I…
Wow! You are amazing!
It took about 10 hours for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting to pass 2000 signatures on Day 1. Thank you for all the likes, shares, ReTweets etc
Oscar Dewhurst – Elk
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Oscar writes: This image was taken at the same place as the Moose in last week’s photo. It was our last morning before we headed back to the UK that evening, so again we decided to spent a couple of hours at a spot overlooking the Snake River. There was a lovely layer of mist…
Chris Packham was the first…
Timing is everything – and so often a matter of luck! I had noticed that the 3000th post on this blog was coming up shortly but a quick, unplanned blog about Mountain Hares meant that when my third e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting went live a little while ago this announcement could occupy the…
Balmoral challenged over Mountain Hare cull
As a follow-up to last weekend’s story about Mountain Hare culls in the Cairngorms National Park (you may have read it here first) Rob Edwards writes in today’s Glasgow Herald of the role of the Queen’s highland estate. Mass culls of Mountain Hares have, it seems, been undertaken at Delnadamph – part of the Balmoral…
Sunday book review – The Most Perfect Thing by Tim Birkhead
In this book Tim Birkhead has unscrambled the complexities of the biology of eggs with writing as smooth and rounded as an eggshell. As I sit writing this review I am listening to a dawn chorus dominated by Blackbird song, and I am thinking of the female Blackbird who is sitting on a nest containing…