The Angus Glens Moorland Group need not only to go to Specsavers but also back to school (where I imagine they might spend quite a lot of time in detention). Their maths, English, science and logic are all in need of some education. Raptor Persecution UK have quite rightly taken the mickey out of…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
Lots of satellite-tagged Hen Harriers
These are some words from Inglorious (written in 2014), they are the imagined words of an ex-gamekeeper writing of the demise of driven grouse shotoing p253-54): ‘In the end, with all that satellite-tag stuff, you could hardly point your shotgun at a bird of prey without fearing it might be a tagged bird that…
Hen Harriers still in the news
Today’s Farming Today is worth a listen (8 minutes in). There is a conversation between the Moorland Association’s Amanda ‘If we let the Hen Harrier in, we will soon have nothing else‘ Anderson and the much more rational and consistent RSPB spokesperson, Cathleen Thomas. Amanda sticks to the nonsense about it being ‘the grouse shooters…
Angus Glens – they should have gone to Specsavers
The Angus Glens Moorland Group provide this useful checklist for visitors – there won’t be too many genuine ticks on the left hand side of the page and anyone ticking Redshank here ought to provide a photo of the bird to their local county bird recorder for verification. 103 bird species were not just recorded…
Bowland Gull Cull 14 – some information
At 14:59 this afternoon I received some answers to my FOI request of 10 July 2017 about the Bowland gull cull (see here for summary). I’m very grateful to NE for their response. It will take me a few days to read the large documents that I have been sent and to figure out what…
Guest blog – Wildfire and Moorland Management by Bob Berzins
Wildfire and Moorland Management The moorland above Carrbrook Greater Manchester has been devastated by one of the largest moorland fires in recent years. The fire started on 24th June and burnt for around three weeks covering an area of 18 sq km. The cloud of smoke was visible from space and residents had to abandon…
Shoddy misportrayal by BBC Radio 4 – not for the first time.
The Radio 4 Today programme is making a habit of attending the Game Fair and it covered quite a lot of ground, some of it quite well, this morning. Well done to Georgia Locock for speaking up against intensive grouse shooting. Georgia, a first-year undergraduate, was put up against 33 year-old, experienced spokesperson for shooting,…
Worth a small celebration #justice4henharriers
We have been given leave by the Hon Mrs Justice Lambert DBE to take our judicial review to court. We’ll soon find out what the date is, but it won’t be before October, it might not be before Christmas, but an autumn day in court is most likely. It appears that the RSPB will…
#justice4henharriers
There’s not much to report but it’s an excuse to repost one of Gordon Yates’s wonderful images. I met with our lawyers last week. We are still waiting to hear whether we have leave to appeal. We hope to hear, one way or another, by the end of July which isn’t far away, but even…
Thunderous Mr Wilde
The thunderous Findlay Wilde has a thunderclap going. It will go out on 12 August, the Inglorious 12th, a while before he gets his GCSE results! It seems as though Findlay has been around for ages, he’s an established figure – an established figure and he hasn’t got to the sixth form yet. Well…