The distribution, numbers and behaviour of birds in the UK are changing because of a changing climate according to a new report. The State of the UK’s Birds 2017 (SUKB) – the one-stop shop for all the latest results from bird surveys and monitoring studies – this year highlights how many of the UK’s species are already…
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The first two months – more than 50 with more than 50 signatures
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting keeps making significant progress. On 2 December – that’s two months in and four months to go – it passed 17, 200 signatures and now it’s over 17,600. Highlights: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey passed 100 signatures. The number of constituencies with 50+ signatures has jumped from…
Blue Planet 2 – programme 6
Coasts – can’t go wrong with coasts – and they didn’t. Crabs were the stars! You don’t read those words very often. There were some great scenes on and just off beaches – turtles in warm waters and King Penguins in cold ones – and then there were all those sharks too. This episode felt…
It sure has…
A recent article in Shooting UK asks ‘Has commercial driven shooting reached a watershed?’ – it sure has! It’s an interesting read, it’s always interesting to see what others think about things that interest you, but my take would be a little different than the author’s. First, it’s a bit surprising that the author can’t bring…
Oscar Dewhurst – Beaver
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Oscar writes: while I was walking around Stanley Park in Vancouver, I got chatting to another photographer who mentioned that I had a good chance of seeing Beavers in one of the small pools towards the entrance. Later that evening, after a short wait, sure enough a family emerged from their den and treated me…