A new scientific study has shown that crows, including Magpies and Ravens, do not have as big an impact on bird populations as has previously been thought. This has implications for the legality of some aspects of gamekeeping in the UK. It is one of the most obvious things in the world to imagine that…
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Sent yours yet?
I’m finishing off writing my Christmas cards today. I sent out quite a few earlier in December. A whole bunch of my friends received ‘Findlay Wilde cards’ as above: Mike Clarke, Martin Harper, Liz Truss, Amanda Anderson,Charlie Moores (but not Charles Moore), Lt General Sir Barnabas White-Spunner, Teresa Dent, Andrew Sells, Richard Ali…
The Monro challenge
Dear ‘Monro’ You arrived on this blog in mid-October and I have let you post over 100 comments here since that time – more than any other commenter. All your comments are on grouse shooting and Hen Harriers. You are becoming highly repetitive and slightly irritating. By the way, your comments have elicited about 872…
Charles Moore shoots grouse
It’s funny, isn’t it, how many journalists who criticise the RSPB are shooters. And it’s funny how they somehow forget to mention the fact that they are shooters or involved in shooting when they write their criticisms of the RSPB’s opposition to people associated with shooting breaking wildlife law. We’ve had the case of Magnus…
Simon Barnes – ‘#WhoseSideAreYouOn Prince William?
Simon Barnes writes so well, and I tend to agree with him too. In today’s Independent on Sunday he makes the point, made here and elsewhere in the past, that it’s very nice to see Prince William arguing against illegal killing of wildlife abroad but why the silence here at home? How about coming out…
Last before Christmas
[No book review this week – I’ve been too busy to read]. I am keen on National Hunt racing, as regular readers will know. And I’m a member at Cheltenham as that is where, overall, the best of British NH racing takes place. So I headed off from Northants to Glos on Saturday morning. But…
More photos from Tuesday – and the appearance of a ‘spinner’.
All images: Eleanor Bentall. I see that Charles Moore has used his column in the Torygraph to have a go at the RSPB and the Wildlife Trusts for asking their members to show their support for a Nature and Wellbeing Act, to defend the EU nature directives (Birds Directive and Habitats and Species Directive) and…
Saturday cartooon by Ralph Underhill
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Round up
Here are some things that caught my eye: Wild Travel magazine has folded – speaking as a subscriber and former columnist I’m sorry about that should the GB be GB’s national bird? Telegraph letters snares around stink-pit on Peak District grouse moor catch pet dog -Buxton Advertiser the Big Give is matching your donation to…
An end of year survey
What do you think of wildlife NGOs, political parties, this website and a few other things? Just a dozen easy questions – and it is anonymous. Click here to take part. Poll will close late December, results here early January.