I keep being asked by film companies where they could go to film driven grouse shooting or obtain existing footage to use. Any grouse moors out there wishing to reveal the glories of the Inglorious 12th? Anyone know of locations where driven grouse shooting could be filmed from rights of way or the public highway?…
Category: Grouse and harriers
Hen Harriers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (not)
Wouldn’t you love to be able to see a food pass by a pair of Hen Harriers in a National Park near you? The Yorkshire Dales National Park has much excellent habitat for Hen Harriers – it ought, with the adjacent Nidderdale AONB, to have at least a dozen nesting pairs. Since 2000, there should,…
Congratulations to Sir Ian Booo!tham
Sir Ian Booo!tham has been awarded the inaugural ‘Outstanding guns’ award by Fieldsports Magazine. This award ‘gives recognition to individuals in the world of game shooting who truly deserve it, for all the right reasons‘ apparently. The award has been invented because ‘the game shooting community must do all that it possibly can to ensure…
Guest blog – Kick the Butts out of Kinder Scout by Nick Moyes
Nick Moyes is former Senior Keeper of Natural History at Derby Museum; co-author of The Flora of Derbyshire, and technical advisor to the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project, which he helped set up. He is currently campaigning to get The Sanctuary LNR restored by Derby City Council, and advises on biodiversity action plans across Lowland Derbyshire….
Kite attack!
The Daily Mail is edited by Paul Dacre who owns a grouse moor. Saturday saw a piece about a scourge of Red Kites attacking young girls and old ladies – men seem to be immune. There is a serious issue here and that is that artificial feeding of Red Kites has made them less…