Have a look at this brand new website – it brings together many of the activities that are going on at the moment. In time, you will be able to follow, in real time, the fate of satellite-tagged Hen Harriers and help keep an eye on them. It’s an interesting take on the three pairs…
Category: EVENTS: BirdFair, HHDay, Game Fair etc
Send a ‘selfie’ to go on the Hen Harrier trail in Northumberland
Here’s mine! Send yours – which will undoubtedly be more attractive – to @birdersagainst
Martyn and Joe in Lush Northampton
I strolled into the Northampton branch of Lush this morning at 0910 and asked about this ‘Hen Harrier campaign thing’. Crikey was I impressed! Martyn was able to tell me loads – and all of it was right. He really knew his stuff although he clearly isn’t a ‘birder’. After we had got to the…
Return of Mr White…
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the grouse moors…the return of Mr White and Reservoir Cats. Mr White retired from writing about 4 years ago, only to be tempted out of retirement to write the first Guest Blog on this site, but then, to all of our regret, he simply…
Read the BOU blog by Arjun Amar
Read the BOU blog by Arjun Amar. Good linmks to quite a few of the important scientific papers and a good rattle through the issues and proposed solutions.
Got the T-shirt
And now from AA to RSPB
No, not those nice people who fix your car by the side of the road, not those nice people who help you give up the booze, but those people, who sent me thousands of postcards disapproving, in no uncertain terms, of the RSPB’s position on culling Ruddy Ducks many years ago – Animal Aid. Animal…
A good week for the friends of the Hen Harrier
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It’s difficult to keep up – there’s so much going on: Severn Trent say ‘yes’ to Hen Harrier Day in Peak District. Hen Harrier Day in Peak District reaches capacity – any more attendees will jam the car parks… August Birdwatch has ‘Stop killing our Harriers’ on cover. M&S shelve plans to sell Red…
NEWS: M&S drop grouse sales in response to threatened boycott
Ben Webster in The Times: Game Over: M&S takes grouse off the shelves after boycott threat. M&S won’t sell grouse this year and tests new code for grouse moors after boycott threat http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4156994.ece … We did that! Consumer power. Well done M&S!! I’ll be shopping with you again later today. And we’ll be watching you carefully…
Game Fair 6: this blog, ‘overheards’ and en passant
‘Oh we all read your blog – don’t you worry‘ – a senior staff member of a pro-shooting organisation. Trimbush – was that you entering Churchills’s tent at around lunchtime on Saturday? ‘Ian Coghill out-Faraged Nigel Farage‘ – a back-handed compliment, if a compliment at all. ‘Nigerian Garage‘ – how the GWCT’s Chair was reported…