I’m planning a meal out with friends and I’m trying to find the restaurant in London that is most aware of the issues surrounding game meat, particularly Red Grouse meat, for this treat. I won’t be eating grouse wherever we go, but I’d like to spend my money on my friends at a restaurant which…
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Henry goes to Langholm Moor
Admittedly you can’t see my friend Henry in this photo, but I promise he was here. And ‘here’ is Langholm Moor, the Duke of Buccleuch’s place which hosted the first Langholm study and is hosting the second one (of which more on Thursday). It’s a crow trap in the foreground, and Whita Hill in the…
What a hoot! Or shoot?
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This is a screenshot of Amazon taken on Sunday evening and Inglorious is #1 best seller in Target Shooting – despite not being published and not being reviewed except here. I think what we take from this is that target shooters may not read many books?
Red Grouse get to Iceland
As climate change worsens, the expected range of the Red Grouse will shift north, perhaps leaving northern England altogether, at least those are the predictions of climate change modelling (see, for example, here). But in the Daily Mail (and only the Daily Mail as far as I can see – editor Paul Dacre, grouse moor…
House prices skydance in one street in Bracknell
There’s a newish estate in Bracknell where all of the roads are named after birds. Each of the signs has a picture of the bird and a QR code, which takes you to the relevant page on the RSPB website. Apparently, this was all the idea of a local councilor, perhaps to make up for…
Response from Yorkshire Water
Andrew Walker, Catchment Strategy Manager at Yorkshire Water, replies to my blog of earlier today: “You are right to be concerned about rotational heather burning on blanket bog; we are too. As you are aware from our previous correspondence on the matter, last October, we are working with key stakeholders to find a more sensitive…
Dear Yorkshire Water
Dear Yorkshire Water I’m not a customer of yours but I am interested in your position on management of the uplands for grouse shooting. You will be aware, because you supported the study, that last October an important study was published by Leeds University on the impacts of intensive moorland management for grouse shooting on…
Burning for grouse shooting, a threat to habitat, in the Observer today
Today the Observer has a piece on the Climate Change Committee’s report to parliament (mentioned on this blog on Wednesday) which raised the issue of intensive grouse moor management ‘The damaging practice of burning peat to increase grouse yields continues, including on internationally protected sites.’. The article was interesting for a number of reasons. The…
Five weeks today we’ll be at the Palace Hotel
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Five weeks today, at the Palace Hotel Buxton, there will be an evening to celebrate the Hen Harrier. Henry is celebrating already! Tickets will go on sale in a week’s time, at £10 per head. The event will feature: Chris Packham, Mark Cocker (Buxton-born author), local performers, Jeremy Deller (Turner Prize winning artist see here…
Not very new, and not very statesmanlike
In the New Statesman this week, there is an excellent and long article by Mark Cocker on shooting (Unfair game: why Britain’s birds of prey are being killed). I recommend it as an interesting read and because it will bring the plight of the Hen Harrier to a new readership. The most interesting quote in…