Video evidence was used to secure a conviction of a Scottish gamekeeper for wildlife crime yesterday in an important case. I don’t know any more about this case than you can read here, here and here. This killer killed a Goshawk. The fact that video evidence was admitted, I guess making it a pretty straightforward…
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You voted for them…
The responses coming in from your MPs don’t seem to be impressing you very much from what I see. There is, as several people have mentioned, a standard Conservative response to our fairly standardised series of questions running up to the Rally for Nature. It’s not surprising that the answer is a standard one, each…
Rallying
When you have as enjoyable time as I did on Tuesday at the Rally for Nature, it’s difficult not to keep thinking back to it. It’s also wrong not to keep thinking back to it. Here are just a few thoughts and a few photographs. Really good to see Charlie Moores, one of the…
Info v misinfo
So, that’s the end of the Red Grouse shooting season for another year. One year, not so far away, it will end for good. Last week the Moorland Association and BASC published their ‘misinfographic’ on grouse shooting – the one about which I have contacted the ASA. This week, the League Against Cruel Sports produced their…
Yesterday’s Rally for Nature
It was great to see lots of people of similar views coming to Westminster to be inspired by some speeches and then to lobby their MPs on behalf of wildlife. There were two ‘sittings’, morning and afternoon and short speeches from RSPB, Wildlife Trust and LACS staff. I spoke on wildlife crime in the morning…
More a bit of a wild life than wildlife
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This guy was sitting on the cold pavement outside a London station the other day playing Christmas carols and tunes on this traffic cone! He was very good! And as people came out of the station they looked around for the source of the music, which sounded as if it was coming from a horn…
Guest Blog – A is for acorn, or analogue? by Laurence Rose
Laurence Rose has worked for the RSPB for over 30 years. He also edits the website NATURAL LIGHT that explores the links between nature and the arts. A is for acorn, B is for buttercup. No, make that analogue and broadband C was for catkin, but now is for creep; D was for dandelion, but…
End wildlife crime – a messsage to all MPs
Tomorrow is the Rally for Nature organised by the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and the League Against Cruel Sports working together – for the first time ever? The rally is also supported by Butterfly Conservation, the Mammal Society and The Ramblers. If you have not yet done so, please contact your MP through this handy webpage…
My northernmost parakeet
It was a cold Saturday morning and there weren’t many other people setting off from my street at 0650. Heading up the M1 I noticed that the trees, leafless, were pin sharp against the lightening blue sky. They looked as if they were drawn with a very fine pen. It’s difficult to get all dreamy…
A Message from Martha is Sunday Express bird book of 2014
I’m very happy to share the Sunday Express Bird Book of the year with Martin Garner’s Challenge Series Autumn. Martin is a great birder who is helping other birders by sharing his knowledge. But following a mention in yesterday’s Guardian of A Message from Martha in the category of best nature literature of 2014 it…