My milk comes from a milkman (or milkperson) and arrives on my doorstep. But it comes from cows before then. Which cows? When my house was built in 1899 I imagine there were milk deliveries (were there?) but of a very different nature. I imagine that the distance between my house and the cow that…
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Tim Melling – Little Forktail
Forktails are a family of birds native to SE Asia that inhabit rivers and streams. I have seen several different species (always a treat to see) but the Little Forktail surprised me by being really tiny. Also it does not have the exaggeratedly forked tail that the others have. In fact its scientific name Enicurus…
Tracking the Midhope moor case – Peak District
Long-term readers of this blog may remember this case in the Peak District National Park from May 2016. This track was constructed in 2015 without planning permission but funded by Natural England despite it being in an SPA, SAC and SSSI. In 2016 the estate applied for retrospective planning permission and over 180 of…
An eagle called Fred
Press release: Golden eagle persecution 7 miles from Scotland’s Parliament? A young satellite-tagged golden eagle has disappeared in highly suspicious circumstances in the Pentland Hills, just seven miles from the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh. The eagle had hatched at a nest site in the Scottish Borders in 2017 and last June, in cooperation…
Wuthering moors (60) – Calderdale losing track (2)
Following a widespread inability to find a planning application for half a track on the Calderdale planning portal – despite there being an application for the other half on the Pendle planning portal – I made my second phone call to Calderdale Council (01422 392237) and had a nice chat with another woman and then…