I’ve visited the Kettering Starbucks a couple of time in the last two months as it’s a pleasanter place to hang around, if one has to, than the Kettering Hospital car park. On my first visit there was a guy cutting the grass with whom I got into conversation as I drank my coffee outside….
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Sunday book review – Goshawk Summer by James Aldred
I don’t see many Goshawks, and so I was interested to read about film cameraman James Aldred’s experiences filming this species for much of the spring and summer of 2020. Spending so much time with this bird would make it ‘a season unlike any other’ for most of us but it was also a season…
Inglorious – no sparkle here
Driven grouse shooting still exists but it is beleaguered. It’s good to think of how far we have come in just a few years. It is a worthless hobby and its proponents have no answers to the charges against it except to ignore them. If driven grouse shooting hadn’t been invented c170 years ago then…
Black-browed Albatross – by Brian Leecy
There’s something about albatrosses – they are big, they are ocean wanderers and when they turn up in UK waters they are a bit lost! This bird has been around for a few weeks now and is sometimes seen at the RSPB nature reserve at Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire. I know a few people who’ve made…
Yesterday’s Hen Harrier Day broadcast
Yesterday’s Wild Justice Hen Harrier Day broadcast was watched by well over a thousand people and that will have included quite a few readers of this blog – but also many people new to the issues of land management in the uplands and the persecution of protected wildlife. You can catch up with the broadcast…