I was in the Goyt Valley on Sunday morning with, I guess, 4-500 other folk. Did anyone count? There were certainly fewer than last year in the Derwent Valley – but it’s still a big crowd. And everyone was very welcome. This was us… Meanwhile, down south, at the RSPB reserve at Arne, 130 people…
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What some other papers say
In a long piece in the Daily Record on Saturday, Annie Brown (The true cost of grouse shooting) talks about the move to ban driven grouse shooting, and quotes me extensively. In the Glasgow Herald, there is a piece entitled ‘Calls mount for ban on grouse shooting‘ where an animal welfare charity, OneKind, formerly known…
What the Sunday papers say
We (I’m not sure exactly who ‘we’ is, but it certainly includes this blog and many of its readers, along with the RSPB, Chris Packham, BAWC, Raptor Persecution Scotland, Raptor Politics and others) have changed the way the media look at the opening of the grouse shooting season – the Inglorious 12th (this year on…
Hen Harrier Eve
The Hen Harrier Eve event in Buxton on Saturday evening was a sell-out and a good time was had by all. My thanks go to Susan Cross, the co-organiser with myself; and the two of us would like to thank a large number of friends, colleagues and partners who helped put the event together. And…
Oscar Dewhurst – Spotted Flycatcher
Oscar writes: this Spotted Flycatcher turned up one day at Minsmere over the Spring in the bushes behind East Hide. I don’t see them much down at home in London so was pleased to be able to get a few images of one here. It was catching flies in the scrub and fortunately this…
All in all it’s just another death on the moor
Suggested by Rachael Conway To the music of Pink Floyd’s Brick in the Wall? We don’t want no persecution We don’t want no brood control An end to killing on the moorland Shooter leave our birds alone Hey shooter leave our birds alone All in all it’s just another death on the moor Ban…
Henry heading to the Goyt Valley tomorrow
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For full details and a useful map – click here. If you are coming from Buxton, up the A5004 you have to look out for the turn off to the Goyt Valley just as you go into the Peak District National Park (see the sign on the right?). There’s the turning on the left There…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Henry looking forward to Hen Harrier Eve – what a star he is!
If you haven’t already bought a ticket then you aren’t joining 275 of us for an evening celebrating the Hen Harrier tomorrow evening. Right now – I just hope the technology works, that the bar doesn’t run out of beer, that the speakers keep to time and all those other practical worries that go with…
A selection of quotes from reviews of Inglorious
My publisher actually told me that Inglorious is ‘selling well’ which you practically never hear from a publisher. It’s a book that is intended to educate and entertain, but also to get you fired up and wanting to do something to change the world. One thing I would like you to do is to sign…