Henry was ‘phoning the RSPB Hen Harrier hotline 0845-4600121 – he thinks it’s a dating service. HaveYouSeenHenry?
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2020 biodiversity target
Lord de Mauley seems to think that we are a shoo-in to meet the 2020 biodiversity target of halting biodiversity loss. This is what four of our leading wildlife NGOs think: Martin Warren, Chief Executive of Butterfly Conservation says: ‘I think it is extremely unlikely that the UK will meet all the targets set out…
Henry chats up the people
Henry is quite a chatterbox. He is a people magnet – pity there aren’t more ringtails around for him … This family, and many others, were keen to hear of the plight of Hen Harriers in the Upper Derwent Valley. Just think of the stir when Henry wings in to centres of population. He might…
Left undone…
Defra still hasn’t answered this very simple question – ‘Do ministers sign off on responses to e-petitions. And who signed off the response to John Armitage’s successful e-petition about licensing shooting estates?’ Teresa Dent hasn’t yet replied on behalf of Rules restaurant on the expected levels of poisonous lead in the meat that they sell….
Natural England seem to have lost the West Pennine Moors
I view the north of England pretty much as an enigma wrapped in a cloth cap and walking a whippet. I’m better on the east of the country than the west where everywhere seems to be a town beginning with B, and it is indeed the area between Bolton and Blackburn with which we are…
So that was March
So that was March – spring has not yet fully sprung. I sat by the side of the road in County Durham, and there were displaying waders everywhere – drumming Snipe, tumbling Lapwing, a distant Golden Plover, yelping Redshank and even the occasional bubbling Curlew but the three Blackcock at the lek were just mooching…
Forests
I spent some time with a bunch of Forest Enterprise England staff last week. They were very nice – they invited me to tell them what I thought of them. I admire FE staff – so much so that I wish they had more to do with delivering the things that I care about; a…
Henry visits a patch of grass
Henry was very keen to visit the site where the ‘Sodden 570’ protested against the persecution of Henrys everywhere. Here we are near the Fairholmes visitor centre – and the sun was shining! For comparison, here is Harry, Chris, Barry and me, standing in the rain, on Hen Harrier Day 2014.
Henry chills out with an ice cream
Even an eligible young male Hen Harrier like Henry, on the look out for a mate, needs to chill out now and again. Here I buy Henry an ice cream. We sat on a stone wall in the Goyt Valley and had a chat. Henry thanked everyone for signing the e-petition to ban driven grouse…
Thank you
The Westminster government e-petition site closed about six hours early yesterday – at around 6pm rather than at the scheduled midnight. Is that the first broken promise of the general election campaign? Our e-petition disappeared with no warning, along with all the others, but with around 22,400 signatures supporting the call to ban driven grouse…