I have permission to use this image of a Red Grouse by Tim Melling. The Countryside Alliance does not. Tim Melling is wondering where he should send his invoice please? He tells me that £500 would be an appropriate sum and that he’d like it to be a donation to Birders Against Wildlife Crime, perhaps…
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Hen Harrier Day Sheffield, 5 August
Good news! Sheffield Environment is organising a Hen Harrier Day event in central Sheffield on Saturday 5 August. A big ‘Thank you!’ to them. I’ll be there, and at an event at Boat of Garten the next day. It wouldn’t be Hen Harrier day without a visit to the Peak District area. It’s a great…
Seriously rattled – and rightly
In a long rant the Countryside Alliance shows just how rattled it is by the challenges to driven grouse shooting. It’s all the usual stuff, in fact it’s quite a useful refresher course in the Alliance’s lack of solid arguments on the subject. But it’s interesting to think about why the grouse shooting folk have…
Another review of Remarkable Birds
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Reviews seem to be like buses – two have come along together. Jeremy Mynott in the Times Literary Supplement reviews Remarkable Birds and The Meaning of Birds by Simon Barnes. Here are some of the nice things he says about Remarkable Birds: ‘Packed with all manner of interesting facts, expertly presented and all tending to…
UK Hen Harrier survey results – what they say (5)
Hanky for Mr Stokes!