The report of the Lead Ammunition Group was submitted to Ministers on 3 June this year after more than five years of quite hard work by a group of varying expertise and scientific ability. Defra has decided to put the report out to peer review to have it checked one more time and the final…
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Poached
Yesterday evening I went to an International Film Premiere which was strange in itself. But I knew about half a dozen people who appeared in the film and about half of the people in the audience! Weird! The film is called Poached and it’s about egg-collecting or egg-stealing – Poached! Geddit?! It’s a film about…
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove I am a constituent of yours and, although it is extremely unlikely that I will ever vote for you, I would like to wish you well during your period as an MP. Being an MP is a great opportunity and also a great responsibility. I hope that your stay in the House…
Blackberries
I have been picking blackberries off this hedge for 30 years. I’ve blogged about it before (Season mists and …blackberries, 6 Sep 2010, Blackberry makes $1bn loss, 24 September 2013). This year the blackberries are numerous but very few of them are ripe, and even they are not…
It’s unpredictably good or bad
My late-flowering buddleia is a delight – in a good year. It’s too early to tell if this year is a good year. It really comes into its own in an indian summer when there are few other flowering plants around and it acts like a butterfly magnet. Yesterday afternoon there was this Painted Lady…
Oscar Dewhurst – Oystercatcher
Oscar writes: I had been sitting in the East Hide at Minsmere for most of the morning with not much to photograph other than a couple of flyby Avocets. This Oystercatcher circled around the scrape a couple of times calling, and I was glad to see I’d got one image with its beak open. Nikon…
Sunday book review – An Illustrated Coastal Year by Celia Lewis
This book is pretty and interesting. It’s a bit different too. The illustrations, by the author, of fauna and flora but also of ingredients for recipes and instructions for making ornaments or games, are very a big plus for the book. Those of birds are accurate enough, and very attractive (so it’s a pity that…
Meet the tuluver
Click here – it’s quite good fun.
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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15,000 signatures in 45 days
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting yesterday passed the 15,000 signature barrier (on Day 45). That’s a signature every four and a half minutes, day and night for just over 6 weeks. Pretty good. Thank you to all who have signed, and also to those who have promoted the e-petition to their bird clubs,…