If you look at the Ordnance Survey map at grid reference SD 944344 – use this link. Can you see that there is an unnamed stream (a watercourse) between one called Foul Sike (to the north) and another called Waterfall Syke (to the south)? Here it is these days – looks a bit like a…
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Silly biofools!
MEPs voted for a 6% cap on food-based biofuels yesterday. It could be worse (it always could) but it should be an awful lot better. Action Aid report. RSPB report. EEB report. BBC report. Business green report. Thomson Reuters report. EU Observer report. I am amazed that in this world when things are speeding up…
Binoculars
I would be very surprised if readers of this blog have been worrying about the fate of my binoculars since I dropped them on the concrete outside a motel at Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, on 23 June. A few days later (28 June to be precise) I took them into Hawkins in Northampton to see…
Biofuels – a burning question
Please do this today: ask your MEP to vote for the lowest possible limit on the addition of biofuels to transport fuels by clicking here and supporting Action Aid’s campaign. There is a vote tomorrow where MEPs will be asked to decide whether to limit biofuels to 5.5% or 6.5% of transport fuel volumes. The…
Badgers, Syria and democracy
I read an interesting blog last week by Matthew Taylor about whether ‘doing something’ is seen as better or worse than ‘not doing anything’. I am emotionally a ‘let’s do something’ type of person. If I see a mess I’d rather be doing something about it than not doing something – sometimes, even if I’m…
Sunday Book Review – The Natural Eye by The Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA)
The Society of Wildlife Artists is 50 this year – Happy Birthday SWLA! I was quite surprised it had been around that long. The funds raised from sales of this book will assist the SWLA in giving bursaries – so think of it as an easy Christmas present for anyone with an interest in wildlife…
Wuthering Moors 38 – some more photos
Rumour has it that NE and Defra are both in a tizzy over a few photographs of moorlands on this blog. So, let’s have some more of them. These are all, I’m told (as I have never been there myself) from Walshaw Moor. To check the grid references use this link. …
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Badger e-petition reaches 300,00 signatures
In a remarkable outpouring of public concern an epetition calling on the government to cease its cull of badgers has, just now, passed 300,000 signatures (on the last day before it closes at 0738 tomorrow morning).
Hit or a Miss?
Looks like he’s going to miss this time? And it doesn’t look very much like a harrier. Could you make it up…?