It’s just as illegal to kill a Buzzard as it is to kill a Hen Harrier. Satellite-tagging a lot of Buzzards, particularly in areas close to driven grouse moors would, I bet, lead to a lot of interesting information about Buzzard movements and survival, and also lead to some interesting ‘disappearances’ which could be…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
Ilkley Literary Festival – 10 October
I’ll be chatting about driven grouse shooting at the Ilkley Literary festival on Saturday 10 October. It would be good to see a few friendly faces as I venture into grouse shooting country. This does mean that I will miss the RSPB AGM on the same day in London (for the first time for well…
Dear Minister
Dear Mr Stewart I just wondered how you are getting on with a couple of things. The e-petition calling on you to ban driven grouse shooting passed 10,000 signatures 23 days ago which triggered the need for a government response. By the way, it only took 15 days to get to 10,000 signatures. I’m…
Tag on MacDuff, and damned be him who first cries hold enough!
Two more Red Kites have been confirmed by Scottish Government testing to have been illegally killed in north Scotland. Both of these incidents took place in 2014 and are now being made public as the Police have concluded their enquiries. The first victim was found last June near Beauly, and was subsequently confirmed by post-mortem,…
A cap on Hen Harrier numbers
The future of driven grouse shooting in the UK is going to depend rather more in the end, I suggest, on its wider environmental impacts, than it is on its harmful impacts on birds of prey, especially Hen Harriers. However, illegal raptor persecution is a massive problem that this government and previous governments have…
Do you agree with H&OT on brood meddling?
Rare Bird Alert are repeating their poll of earlier in the year and asking whether you agree with the Hawk and Owl Trust’s position on brood management of Hen Harriers (I don’t). It will be interesting to see what the numbers are this time around (here are last year’s). I hope the H&OT get…
Inglorious
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I spent quite a lot of the Bird Fair signing copies of books – particularly of Inglorious. This led to lots of conversations with lots of nice people about Hen Harrier Day, Hen Harriers, shooting organisations and driven grouse shooting. There were quite a few ‘Well done!‘s, a lot of ‘What next?‘s and quite a…
British Wildlife, August 2015
Interesting article on the creation of the Wallasea Island RSPB nature reserve. As ever, a great column by Twitcher in the Swamp. My Naturally Opinionated is on why we should ban driven grouse shooting. Soldierflies – they are really quite interesting. British Wildlife is always a good read.
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And that e-petition…
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed the 14,000 signature mark yesterday. 14,000 isn’t 140,000 but it is a lot of signatures. 14,000 signatures was reached in c33 days, less than five weeks. Last year it took eleven weeks to get to the same total. Just more evidence that awareness is growing and spreading…