Standing up for Nature
The bright yellow Meadowlarks of North America are familiar but less familiar is this scarlet breasted species from southern South America. This male had just caught a large ant and was photographed in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. Taken with Nikon D500 Nikkor 300mm f4 lens with 1.4 converter f6.3 1/1250 ISO…
Thank you to everyone who is supporting BAWC’s first field project. Let’s hope all birds involved live forever – but autopsies are quite expensive Click here if you’d like to donate. Thank you.
As pointed out yesterday, NRW are looking at the role of shooting on our land, public land, in Wales. The Countryside Alliance is asking its members to wade in with their views – which is a perfectly reasonable thing for them to do. And it’s perfectly reasonable for you to send in your views too….
Therese Coffey was handed a hospital pass when Rory Stewart zipped off to another department leaving her holding the Hen Harrier Recovery Farce. A key, and totally ridiculous, element of the plan was to take away young Hen Harriers from grouse moors, raise them expensively in captivity, and then release them again on grouse moors…