In many ways, I thought that this was the very best Hen Harrier Day event ever. But the very first with the #sodden570 must just edge it for those who were there. Back in the Peak District two years later, after another successful rally in 2015 in the Goyt Valley, we gathered in a car…
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Hen Harrier Day Rainham 2016 – the video and some images
And here are a load more images and words from the RSPB team at Rainham Marshes. Thanks all for a great day! Most of these photos thanks to Guy Shorrock.
Meanwhile, in a proper newspaper…
Yesterday’s Observer was rather more up to date in its reporting of grouse moor issues than the Torygraph, pointing out that our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is where it’s all at! Kevin McKenna, under a headline ‘The Glorious 12th? Conservationists turn their fire on Scotland’s grouse moors‘ writes, ‘This year, though, there will…
Joke coverage by Torygraph
The Telegraph’s Senior Reporter, Patrick Sawer, produced a joke piece of news yesterday. Presumably any journalists who know anything about the environment and grouse shooting were at home having a barbecue over the weekend? The article is constructed around the events of 25 July when the RSPB pulled out of the Defra non-plan for Hen…
Wow! #HHDay2016 and 76,000 signatures
It’s all a bit of a blur at the moment… I left home on Friday lunchtime and have been to Rainham Marshes Hen Harrier Day and The Peak District Hen Harrier Day at Edale. I have heard Charlies Moores speak with passion about being ‘Proud to Care’ and Chris Packham just being brilliant. I saw…
Sunday’s Hen Harrier Day rallies
First off is at Craignure, Isle of Mull at 10:00… … followed by the North West Raptor Protection Group at the village green, Dunsop Bridge at 10:30. RSPB Loch Leven Day 2 at 11:00. RSPB Arne in Dorset starts at 11:00 too. And I’ll be at Edale at 11:00 with Findlay Wilde, Natalie Bennett, the…
Today’s and tomorrow’s Hen Harrier Day rallies
A big shout out to Northern Ireland for their first ever Hen Harrier Day rally in Glenarrif Forest Park, Ballymena, Co Antrim at 10:00 today! Then it’s over to RSPB Loch Leven for the start of a tw0-day event starting at 11:00 On Ilkley Moor, Cow and Calf Rocks, the Ban Bloodsports on Ilkley Moor…
Defra – you are a disgrace
Defra is the government department responsible for nature conservation – it’s hard to remember that because it’s a long time since Defra did anything remotely important for nature. I’ll come back to that general issue at a later date but let’s just look at Hen Harriers since this coming weekend sees Hen Harrier rallies in…
Hen Harrier facts
Ahead of this weekend of Hen Harrier rallies let’s just recap some Hen Harrier facts: the latest science says there should be 300+ pairs of Hen Harrier nesting in England – this year there were 3 pairs the latest science says there should be c2600 pairs of Hen Harrier nesting in the UK – in…
Hen Harrier Day – Rainham Marshes tomorrow
The sun will shine on a large gathering of people tomorrow at RSPB Rainham Marshes nature reserve – one of the best nature reserves (the best?) inside the M25 and the site of one of the biggest-ever (the biggest ever?) Hen Harrier Day rallies. Come and join us to hear Charlie Moores of BAWC,…