The Defra 25-year Nature Strategy is delayed – that’s not a great surprise, Defra has more or less ground to a halt on nature. The delay will be due to several factors: there is no discernable interest in wildlife conservation from any Defra minister – nor any sign of aptitude, experience or knowledge of the…
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Oscar Dewhurst – Pheasant
Oscar writes: While pulling into the car park at Minsmere, during a 3-week stint doing some photography for them last Spring, I spotted this male Pheasant perched on top of this pile of rubble, occasionally displaying. I positioned the car so I could shoot through the open window, and after a few minutes it did…
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Tomorrow morning I will post the 4,000th post on this blog in well under six years. If you’ve been with me since the first post, Don’t let them get away with this, 21 April 2011, then you have quite a lot of stamina. Thank you! There have been more than 3.8m pageviews in that time. …
Tim Melling – Giant River Otter
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This Giant River Otter looks like a rock star singing into a microphone It even has its eyes closed as if it is really concentrating. What it’s really doing is eating an Armoured Catfish tail first. It has managed to scuff its knuckles and head, probably by bumping into things in that opaque water. Giant…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Mountain Hares are culled in uncontrolled and sometimes very large numbers on grouse moors, primarily in Scotland, because the hares carry a tick, which carries a virus, which can harm Red Grouse, that people will pay large sums to shoot. One Kind, a Scottish-based wildlife NGO is one of the organisations campaigning to end this…