After years of pressure from this blog and RaptorpersecutionUK Natural England has released a complicated Excel table of Hen Harriers’ last satellite fixes, in the middle of the night and with no media release or mention anywhere. This coincided with the presentation of … something … we don’t quite know what, and NE don’t want…
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Sunday book review: Bird photographer of the Year (collection 3).
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I was one of the judges for these awards – the judging was in early January and the book is out and was selling well at the Bird Fair last weekend. That’s pretty good going. The cover photograph, of American Flamingos at a flamingo sanctuary in Madrid, and by Pedro Jarque Krebs from Peru, was…
Tim Melling – Capercaillie
Tim writes: I haven’t seen a great many Capercaillies, and most of my sightings have been fleeting glimpses of birds disappearing into the forest. But this Capercaillie was different. This was one of those so-called rogue male Capercaillies that was pumped full of testosterone and ready for a fight. I had to get down low…
A rather dull, not very technical, technical update.
This post explains some things that are going on behind the scenes of this blog and asks for your views. This blog has published almost 5,500 posts since it sprang into life in April 2011. I’ve written most of them although there have been plenty of guest blogs (see here for guidance if you would…
Other blogs (11)
In this occasional series of links to other interesting blog posts, here are some more blogs that have caught my eye. The first two are comments on the terrible state of Natural England, the third, fourth and fifth can be taken to be wide-ranging criticism of SNH and the last is about some people going…