The week in birding by Jonnie Fisk (@jonniefisk)
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill (@cartoonralph)
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Mark writes: I’ve never seen a wild boar in the UK – my sightings have all been in France and Spain. I was once told, in France, and in French but I think i got the right end of the stick, that the modern equivalent of pig-sticking (hunting boars with lances on horseback) involved…
Happy Easter!
I had a look at the Pasque Flowers at Barnack last week – they were wonderful but should be much more numerous now. Happy Easter!
Nonsense (2)
Yesterday’s blog was about the media coverage of the GWCT’s farmland bird survey. I was struck by the quotes, in The Times, of Jim Egan saying that the survey had been set up ‘partly to counter claims by green groups that farmers were doing little to protect birds‘. Ben Webster’s piece also said that Jim…
Cut!
The ‘lawn’ has been cut for the first time since the autumn. You can see that this end of the garden is a bit rough and ready. I think I might have preferred it uncut! I’ve left a strip of unmown grass on one side to participate in…
Nonsense
I did, kind of, tell you so… In The Times, once a dull but reliable newspaper, a few days ago there was a headline thus ‘Farmers praised as Skylarks soar again’ (click here but you need a subscription). The piece by Ben Webster was a write-up of the GWCT ‘survey’ of farmland birds by farmers…
Striptease at Stanwick
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I’ve never been to a striptease show (doesn’t really appeal) but there were two at Stanwick Lakes this morning. When I got into my car at 0730 the windscreen was frozen up – an unusual experience over the last several months. As I drove the few miles to the lakes I could see that…
Time to be in favour of something…
You can go through life being against things. There are plenty of things that I am against, eg cruelty, unfairness, putting sultanas in apple pies, racism and illegal raptor persecution. You could spend a whole lifetime objecting to things but sometimes you have to be in favour of something. When it comes to climate change,…
Peaceful protest against Hen Harrier persecution in August
If you read my column, the Political Birder, in Birdwatch (and if not – why not?) then in the current issue you will see that there will be a peaceful protest in the north of England against Hen Harrier persecution on or around the 12 August this year. That article has prompted a steady trickle…
Guest blog – A very RSPB protest by Danny Heptinstall
Danny Heptinstall is a 24 year old birder, naturalist and aspiring conservationist currently researching Red Kites at the University of Aberdeen (and recent Guest Blogger here). He attended the public protest in Inverness on Saturday afternoon about the recent poisoning incident in Ross-shire. You will already have read here (and here and here) about the…