Complaint to Charity Commission I am writing to you in connection with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT – charity number 1112023). There are several significant issues about the charity that concern me, and given their volume, I thought it best to make a complaint. I was recently considering making a donation to the…
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Oscar Dewhurst – Avocets
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Oscar writes: I was watching a pair of Avocets with their chicks on the scrape at Minsmere. This was taken when another bird came in which was promptly chased off! Nikon D800, Nikon 600mm f/4 AF-S II lens Mark writes: I was at Minsmere, seeing Avocets, on Friday morning. They are such striking birds –…
In case you missed it…
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I thought this cartoon was quite funny really – Robin wins national bird vote.
Interesting news on e-petition
This has recently appeared on the government website. Watch this space.
Sunday book review – On the Edge by Claude Martin
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I spent Thursday with the World Land Trust who are experts in saving rainforests – working with local people to secure important fragments of biodiversity-rich habitats (that’s not all they do, but it is the thing about their work that I most admire). This book, by a former Director General of WWF International, is a…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Henry occupies the butts
Looking very snug there Henry! Occupy the butts! Go to a grouse moor, find a grouse butt, take a photograph of yourself occupying the butt, send in the photograph to this website. Finding one of these butts is easy – you don’t have to walk for miles across the moors – a lot of them…
Lost and found
I was lost but I found this rare Sulphur Clover plant by the side of the road somewhere in deepest Suffolk (apologies for the poor photo – on my mobile phone from the car!). Well, actually I found a nice man who got me unlost and was also marking the verge where the Sulphur Clover…
A moor too Farr Henry?
Henry looks a bit glum on the road to Farr. #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.
Bowland – signs of the times
Let’s not forget that four male Hen Harriers have ‘disappeared’ this breeding season from active nests in the AONB of the Forest of Bowland whose logo is a Hen Harrier. The Duke of Westminster owns the grouse moor of Abbeystead in the Trough of Bowland but there are a couple of other sporting estates there…