In a couple of weeks time there will be a meeting in Quito of the Convention on Migratory Species. Sounds terribly dull doesn’t it? Well maybe it will be – but maybe it won’t. One of the areas to be discussed is poisoning. I wonder what position our government will take on such issues that…
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Oscar Dewhurst – Hobby
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Oscar writes: I’d spent the earlier part of the morning at Richmond Park photographing the deer rut, and when the mist had cleared and the sun was too high I headed to the pen ponds where I heard that a couple of juvenile Hobbies were hunting low over the water and often flying right…
Trains of thought
No book review this week – I’ve had rather little time for reading, I’m afraid. As I travelled down to London last week I kept an eye open for Red Kites on the stretch of line south of Luton station. The man of the couple opposite me may have been doing the same as he…
And now the video…
And here’s the video – click here! And please sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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The boiling frog
Postcards for the Queen
20,132 postcards for the Queen! This morning, Paul and Hilary from LUSH, and myself (since Chris Packham is out of the country) delivered a couple of boxes of postcards (the rest will follow later) to the Queen. Well, no, not directly to HM The Queen but to her house. And no, not to the front…
RPA considering…
Several readers of this blog contacted the Rural Payments Agency at the news of the conviction of a Norfolk gamekeeper for poisoning birds of prey. They have received letters of this form: Thank you for your recent e-mail concerning the Norfolk gamekeeper found guilty of killing protected species of birds. I can confirm that…
Two months on
It is only two months since 10 August and Hen Harrier day, when hundreds of hardy folk gathered together to protest at the illegal killing of Hen Harriers (and it has taken this long for some of them to dry out!). It is now two months until the end of the grouse shooting…
The non-joint non-plan is a non-joint non-plan says Defra
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust launched an e-petition in mid July asking Defra to publish a plan developed by a group of stakeholders (as I believe we should call them – I loathe that term) to aid the recovery of the Hen Harrier. This e-petition has been enthusiastically promoted by GWCT, the Moorland Association,…
Map of Hen Harrier last locations
The RSPB Skydancer project released this map yesterday showing the last known locations of the missing Hen Harriers, Sky and Hope. A quick look at Google maps, entering ‘Forest of Bowland’ and looking at the northern area, north of Wolfhole Crag, will get you to the right area. Switch from ‘map’ to ‘satellite image’ and…