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…
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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…?
Book Review – The Warbler Guide by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle
This is a guide to the 56 warbler species of the USA and Canada. You might think that there is hardly any need for a guide to a group of birds that are so patterned, so marked, so coloured and so …well, obvious! But there is, because they are quite confusing. The Peterson Guide has…
Wuthering Moors 37 – if you go up on the moors today, you’re in for a big surprise
Wuthering Moors 36 – FoI/EIR to NE on Appropriate Assessments for Walshaw Moor
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Dear Natural England This is a request under the EI Regs and/or Freedom of Information Act. It is a simple request for copies of three documents. It is not a difficult request to fulfill. Please send me the information within 10 working days of this request, ie by 20 September 2013. This request refers to…
Wuthering Moors 35 – response to Defra’s case
Here are a few points on Defra’s response to the RSPB’s complaint to the EU Commission in the Walshaw Moor affair (see blog of 12 noon today). 1. Five tracks, five car parks, two ponds dug out of the peat, earthworks? 2. Some of the alleged damage may not ultimately be restored. 3. NE has…