Gordon Yates has supplied some fantastic Hen Harrier images for this blog, but he takes other photographs too – see his website. I’ve never seen Nightjar chicks – aren’t they amazing? Seen here with the female at the nest (such as it is). A reminder of balmy summer days in these early days of December.
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More sense from Forest Enterprise England
Following on from yesterday lunchtime’s blog I have received the following information from Forest Enterprise England. These are the letters sent by FEE’s Chief Executive to BASC and which were mentioned in the previous correspondence. they date from 2015 but they are nonetheless interesting. What do we learn from this? We learn that BASC…
World Land Trust Art Auction
As a trustee of the World Land Trust I’d like to point you in the direction of this Christmas art auction. This online auction ends on 11 December (that’s Monday) so you could spend the weekend mooching and choosing and bidding! Or, quite honestly, if you can’t be bothered with that then why not just…
Guest blog – Ramble Against Raptor Persecution by Dara McAnulty
My name is Dara McAnulty, I’m a 13 year old aspiring naturalist, scientist and conservationist living in Northern Ireland. I write a nature blog called Young Fermanagh Naturalist and I try to do what I can to raise awareness about local as well as national issues which face our wildlife and environment. Ramble…
News and no news from The Moorland Association
A week ago RaptorPersecutionUK published a post which revealed that Amanda Anderson of the Moorland Association had said that some of her members were planning to apply for licences to control Marsh Harriers on moorland. RPUK is rarely wrong but we all waited for the rapid, detailed and hurt denial that would have been an…