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Hen Harriers in England have had a good breeding season this year – there were 14 nesting attempts, of which 9 produced a total of 34 fledged young. These 9 nests were, I think: 3 nests on United Utilities land (where grouse shooting occurs) in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, which were guarded by RSPB…

  It was good to see tht my Nature’s Home magazine (it’s still a ghastly name) came through the letterbox in a compostable wrapper.  Well done RSPB! The wrapper says that you can recycle it in four ways: Put it in your compost heap Put it in your green garden waste bin Put it in…

Good news for Coul Links – a pause, if not a reprieve.   See also: Conservation partnership unites to protect precious dune habitat in Sutherland from development, 30 August 2016 and Not at all cool at Coul , 7 November 2017.       Press release issued yesterday afternoon by RSPB, Plantlife, Buglife, Scottish Wildlife Trust, National…

This is interesting.  It relates to the plan, or should that be incredibly vague idea, to build a space port (whatever that might be) on the A’Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland – ‘a remote boggy stretch of land’. Have a look at this journey made by a young Golden Eagle in 2014 where it headed off…