Humour me, this post is about where we are politically, it has very little to do with nature – I just wanted to get it out of my system. And it’s mostly about the Labour Party – remember them? There are two people, either of whom I would be keen to see as leader of…
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Henry occupies the butts
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Henry is looking forward to Hen Harrier Day on 9 August. He keeps coming up with good ideas about it. Birders Against Wildlife Crime are working away to organise at least one event, and other people want to do their own thing too. If you were in Buxton on the evening of 8 August there…
You might hear a Nightingale tonight
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This evening there will be an attempt to broadcast the song of a nightingale, live, from Norfolk at 1015 tonight. This is part of a campaign to persuade the BBC to make live Nightingale song a part of every spring.
Henry in Dentdale
Dentdale is very pretty and Henry really wanted to go into the Sportsman’s Inn to have a chat about grouse shooting. I managed to distract him and we looked for Dippers on the beck outside instead. In Dent itself Henry asked me about the GWCT and their boss Teresa Dent. I told him that the…
The present was our future then
On the Sunday of our reunion of old Old Bristolians we visited the RSPB Ham Wall nature reserve and the Shapwick Heath NNR on the Somerset Levels. We had all been to this area before, 40 years before, looking and listening for Nightjars, Nightingales, Barn Owls and other species on summer evenings. This time we…
Good news and bad news
The good news is, I hope, that the irritating ‘Viagra in the US’ words at the top of this page should have gone. If you could see them before, can you see them now? The bad news is, although I can see all your comments, stretching back years, they don’t seem to be displaying at…
Henry is welcome?
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Swinton Park, down the road from yesterday’s Henry photo near the spot where Hen Harrier Bowland Betty was found dead, looks a swanky place. I wonder whether grouse is on the menu there? Would Henry be welcome? The Dorchester Grill does not serve grouse, they tell me. Not many replies, so far, from other restaurants…
New Defra ministers announced
Truss, Eustice and de Mauley are back. Rory Stewart is regarded as a bit of a waste in Defra by the Spectator! Labour is expected to keep the Defra shadow ministerial team intact.
Robin Page – a nation giggles at him
Robin Page’s outburst against – well, against so many things – has been derided in the Guardian ahead of Saturday’s Tooth and Claw debate in Norwich. The most telling quote is: When asked by the Guardian why he had not cited any science to back up his assertion that raptors were suppressing native birds,…
Nature alert
Now is the time to show that you are a European. For some strange reason, and the reason is fairly shrouded in mystery, the EU has decided to review the Birds Directive and the Habitats and Species Directive. The Dutch government was, it seems, one of the prime movers behind this and by chance will…