Have the Hawk and Owl Trust got it right? They’d like to hear your views ahead of their trustee meeting and Rare Bird Alert has a poll to help gather those views. For blogs on which the Chair of Hawk and Owl Trust, Philip Merricks, has tried to explain his position click here; yesterday, 23…
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Compromising
There is no stopping the Hawk and Owl Trust’s Chair, Philip Merricks, in his eagerness to tell us all how brilliant a brood management scheme is, and how popular it is, and how clever it is, and yet there is little start to him telling us what it is. We are told by Philip that…
Oscar Dewhurst – Bittern in flight
Oscar writes: I had been photographing a Bittern in the reeds for a few hours. I was having a quick look on the back of my camera at the image I’d just taken, and when I looked back the bird had moved right to the edge, obviously about to fly. Despite the early warning,…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Beavers are back.
Updates
A few things: MCZ consultation open – disappointingly small number of sites on offer Blue Whale to take central place at NHM No fracking underneath National Parks but grouse shooting within them? BGBW looks like it was a record turn out – of people There has been a male Blackcap in my garden Wednesday, Thursday…
Have a look at this one
I’m having a very busy week – finishing off a book. But I did have time to read Martin Harper’s blog on Hen Harrier issues – I recommend it to you.
Not BGBW
I enjoyed the Big Garden Birdwatch and saw quite a few birds. But although a Song Thrush was singing early on the morning on Sunday, probably in the garden but it was still dark, I didn’t see one in my hour of recording. Today, I watched a Song Thrush spend ages in the garden –…
North America beaver cull starts on advice from Tangling Rust
July 2014: Angling Trust welcomes decision to remove beavers from river March 2012: Angling Trust urge Minister Benyon to halt spread of beaver October 2009: Angling Trust policy against beavers President Obama and Prime Minister Harper issue joint declaration to rid North America of beavers after briefing from Tangling Rust. ‘We hadn’t realised they…
Beavering away – or, actually, here to stay.
Harry Barton, Chief Executive of Devon Wildlife Trust, said: ‘We are delighted by Natural England’s decision to grant us a licence to give these beavers a long term future on the River Otter. It’s the result of a great deal of effort by our charity, supported by partner organisations across the UK and, most importantly,…
Guest blog – SWAFH by Rodney Hale
I was brought up in a family of farmers and bloodsports enthusiasts – that is with the exception of my mother who nearly left my father when he returned home from a shooting trip with his car covered in blood. Had she done so I might not have been sitting here now. I have vivid…