Standing up for Nature
Oscar writes: Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager: This was taken in the cloud forest of Peru, at Wayqecha Biological Research Station. Mixed species flocks would regularly pass very close by my room, so I spent a couple of hours standing just outside waiting. This Scarlet-bellied Mountain-Tanager perched out in the open for me. Nikon D300s, Nikon 600mm f4…
Hen Harrier Day is a week away! Hundreds of people will be gathering in three places across the north of England a week today to express their support for the threatened Hen Harrier. If you can’t make it to any of those events – and the Peak District one is full to capacity – then…
This is the story of the establishment of Europe’s first dragonfly centre – written by the man who set it up. But it’s more than that because it is a story of a love of dragonflies, and a story of dragonfly lovers too. I liked it a lot. The dragonfly centre in question was established…
The latest in the series of BAWC podcasts ahead of Hen Harrier Day (it’s difficult to keep up!) is a fascinating interview with Andrew Gilruth of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. You should listen to it here. I don’t know Andrew Gilruth, as far as I recall we’ve never met, but I was very…
Today sees the last of Simon Barnes’s pieces in The Times – a subject about which readers of this blog have expressed their opinions forcefully (see here and here). Simon writes two wildlife pieces today (and there is some sport going on in Glasgow apparently) – one about the wonders of Sea Eagles on Mull…
Thank you to all who commented on the state of a local hedge after my blog on Wednesday evening. Opinions seemed to be divided between insect damage, spray drift and some nasty chemical ending up in the ditch at the foot of the hedge. I went back to the site yesterday evening to have another…
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I see that Walshaw Moor Estate has made a planning application to build a livestock building and a stone access track. How sensitive of them at this time. There are quite a few local objections and I gather that NE are a bit worried about this too. To be fair, as best I can make…
No, not those nice people who fix your car by the side of the road, not those nice people who help you give up the booze, but those people, who sent me thousands of postcards disapproving, in no uncertain terms, of the RSPB’s position on culling Ruddy Ducks many years ago – Animal Aid. Animal…