From the Independent yesterday. From this blog 18 May and 20 May.
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Back soon? Not soon enough!
It’s now a month after the general election (remember the general election?), parliament has reassembled, and the Tory government hasn’t yet reopened the e-petition website. Maybe they’ve decided not to bother with them any more? Or maybe they are just incompetent. I’m quite keen to launch an e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting (with a…
Natural England bleats
Natural England roused itself from slumber yesterday, perhaps after reading this blog (you never know – they do, you know!), and uttered a few weak words on the disappearance of a male Hen Harrier from Geltsdale in Cumbria. It’s good to know that Natural England is ‘very concerned’ about the state of a species on…
Henry asks who owns Scotland
Henry is pretty broad-minded and interested in quite a lot of things. Whilst in Scotland he met the expert on land ownership, Andy Wightman. Andy writes a blog, and has published several books including The Poor had no Lawyers. Andy is an expert on land tenure and land reform – and also on what is…
Geltsdale: another missing male Hen Harrier
Yesterday the RSPB released the news that there had been a pair of Hen Harriers nesting at their Geltsdale nature reserve in Cumbria, but that the male had gone missing and the nest had consequently failed (see here, here and here). This followed the news that three male Hen Harriers had gone missing in the…
Scottish Ornithologists (with an apostrophe)
Having drawn a blank with SLE we tried SOC – but they weren’t in either. Never mind, Henry likes the SOC very much. I was a bit worried about missing apostrophes but Henry said that missing ringtails were much more important. Why aren’t there more Hen Harriers on Scottish grouse moors? Well, I think we…
Henry visits SLE
Scottish Land and Estates is the equivalent of the Scotttish CLA. Henry went to visit them to ask whether they could put him in touch with any ringtails, but there was no-one in. Henry doesn’t really get weekends. So Henry had a look through the window but he couldn’t see any signs of life….
It’s good to be in Scotland
An advantage of being in Scotland is that the Torygraph up here didn’t have this non-story in it. The disadvantage was that it had some quotes by the Scottish Gamekeepers’ Association instead. I didn’t seem to have missed much. Apparently being an ex England captain is now an ecological qualification. At least Botham is described…
Is Henry in Scotland?
Looks like he is! Where might he go over the next few days? Plenty of options. #HaveYouSeenHenry?
Sunday book review – Queen of the Sky by Jackie Morris
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This is another book that I approached with some hesitation. It’s the story of the rescue and rehabilitation of a Peregrine that fell into the sea between the Pembrokeshire coast and Ramsey Island. I wondered whether it might be a bit soft and fluffy for me –…