Standing up for Nature
Henry and I have been to some spectacular spots on our travels. This was a good one, and very close to the road, you’ll notice. The idea that we should reclaim the moors for the Hen Harrier is spreading widely. There is hardly anything more solidly symbolic of driven grouse shooting than the grouse butts…
I arrived at Rainham Marshes RSPB nature reserve before the drawbridge came down. It’s an interesting way to protect your building from vandalism. I was struck by the fact that the first time I went to Rainham Marshes, when RSPB were negotiating its purchase, it seemed to be the preferred dumping ground for burned out…
As climate change worsens, the expected range of the Red Grouse will shift north, perhaps leaving northern England altogether, at least those are the predictions of climate change modelling (see, for example, here). But in the Daily Mail (and only the Daily Mail as far as I can see – editor Paul Dacre, grouse moor…
A regular contributor of comments to this blog, although we haven’t seen much of him recently, calls himself Lazywell. This photo is just for him… #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.
Seen in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago.
I’m a rather inadequate council member of the World Land Trust and so I’m asking you to help make me look a bit better by helping them in one or more of these ways; 1. Be a World Land Trust Friend – give a regular donation of £5 per month 2. Follow the World Land…
Visiting Balmoral wasn’t nearly as interesting as visiting Sandringham – no nice policemen came to ask us what we were doing. #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.
There’s a newish estate in Bracknell where all of the roads are named after birds. Each of the signs has a picture of the bird and a QR code, which takes you to the relevant page on the RSPB website. Apparently, this was all the idea of a local councilor, perhaps to make up for…
Jeremy Deller is a Turner Prize-winning artist, one of whose works is pictured above (and another below). I talked to him back in the autumn. Jeremy has just confirmed he can attend the Hen Harrier Eve event in the Palace Hotel in Buxton on the evening of 8 August (before a Hen Harrier Day rally…
I thought that Henry ought to see Walshaw Moor before he reads about it on pages 149-157, 175-176 and 190-192 of Inglorious – conflict in the uplands. But all this talk about the damage that heather burning does to peatlands (see here and here) reminds me that the RSPB has an outstanding complaint in to…