You should buy The Field this month – you really should (and you should buy Birdwatch every month, of course). I found ‘Bransdale’s resurgence‘ an interesting read, partly because Henry and I had visited some of the places mentioned in this article on our travels. Bransdale is a moor in the North York Moors –…
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Join the Hen Harrier Day thunderclap – update 4
If you can’t make it to one of the growing number of Hen Harrier Day events occurring across Scotland and England in two weeks’ time then you can still add your name to the shout out for the Hen Harrier on social media by supporting our thunderclap. “We’re missing our Hen Harriers – and we…
It’s not published yet but…
I’ve been getting ‘phone calls and emails from friends, and from people I don’t know well, telling me that they have enjoyed reading Inglorious – conflict in the uplands, even though it isn’t officially published until Thursday – that’s 30 July. The earliest copy that I know to have been bought from a bookshop was…
Two weeks today
Two weeks today is Hen Harrier Eve when over 250 people (but the room can hold 300 so there are a few tickets available) will gather to celebrate the Hen Harrier ahead of the Hen Harrier Day rally in the Peak District the next morning (9 August, Goyt Valley). Hen Harrier Eve – 8…
In your August copy of…(2)
Whereas Birdwatch magazine has a ringtail Hen Harrier on its cover this month, The Field has a marvellous image of a Red Grouse on its cover. Don’t you just want to…errr…shoot it? As a graphic example of the crisis of confidence in the British grouse shooting industry, Max Hastings calls on readers of The Field…
In your August copy of… (1)
Birdwatch magazine excels itself by putting the Hen Harrier on its front cover for its August issue (as it did last year) and featuring the plight of the Hen Harrier and Hen Harrier Day events on six pages inside the magazine including my ‘Political birder’ column, a page of information about Hen Harrier Day events…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
According to the Guardian newspaper, the Expert Committee on Pesticides was told by Defra to postpone publication of minutes after refusing to back an NFU request to use banned neonicotinoids on oil seed rape. On Thursday Defra lifted the ban on use of the controversial neonicotinoid pesticides on oil seed rape seeds on an…
Henry in a butt
Occupy the butts! This one is not a million miles away from the Goyt Valley – site for the Derbyshire Hen Harrier Day rally – but on the day there will be other butt-occupying opportunities.
Last chance at the EU nature directives consultation saloon
You only have today to respond to the very important consultation on the future of the EU Nature Directives. There have been 470,000 responses online – a record for this type of EU consultation (94,000 from the UK – who says we aren’t good Europeans?!). You will have a local nature site which is protected…
Henry at Millden
Henry at Millden. ‘So these are the Angus glens?’ says Henry.