I miss You Forgot the Birds – remember them? They were set up by grouse shooters, notably old Harrovian city trader Crispin Odey (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here), to have a go at the RSPB because the RSPB was occasionally mentioning the problems associated with driven grouse shooting. At least…
Category: SHOOTERS
Cut and paste, and add more errors: wildlife reporting in the Daily Mail
The Daily Mail online have simply cut and pasted the Moorland Association’s news release – with all its errors and misrepresentations – see here. We are supposed to think that a dozen pairs of Hen Harriers on English grouse moors (some of which are not grouse moors) is a ‘high’ number whereas there should be…
Joke announcement from Moorland Association
The Moorland Association is trying to big up the Hen Harrier breeding season already – and it’s only late June! If you shouldn’t count your chickens before they’re hatched you certainly shouldn’t count your Hen Harriers before they are fledged (naturally, in the wild) and even then you shouldn’t count on them surviving. Here is…
Scottish gamekeeping party?
Reports of a new political party, the Scottish Gamekeeping Party seem to be exaggerated. That’s a shame. I had been planning to join and had jotted down a few points for the manifesto; free pints and chasers in all pubs for those wearing ridiculous amounts of tweed health warnings on all farmed meat ‘WARNING: does…
BASC has two voices…
Last week, on Friday and Sunday evenings BASC spokesmen were talking about what BASC was doing to rid their membership of wildlife criminals. Both Duncan Thomas and Steve Bloomfield were saying that BASC were doing their bit. I know both of them a little, I’ve met and talked to them, and I’d be more inclined…
Quite funny…
This video was posted earlier this week and it made me smile but, because I am a bit dull, it also made me frown slightly too. As a piss-take it’s quite amusing but I have two problems with it (because I am so dull – no fun at all!). First it’s a bit unfair to…
GWCT drowning not waving
Wouldn’t it be terrible if the GWCT went bust? In a recent letter to supporters, who clearly aren’t being supportive enough, Teresa Dent has told them that GWCT has a hole in its finances. Well, who would have thought it? Anyone would have thought that there was a global financial and health crisis… Maybe the…
Countryfile last night
Last night’s Countryfile programme was great on butterflies and better than usual on crimes against birds of prey. You can watch the whole entertaining programme here and the raptor slot started at about 10:20 into the show (the butterflies before were really great!). Tom Heap was the presenter of this item and he’s pretty good,…
You won’t see this ReTweeted by grouse shooters
It’s always interesting to see what the grouse shooting lobby say on social media, and who retweets it. Here’s an example from last week by the newly formed (‘independent’) Campaign for the Protection of Moorland Communities; This was retweeted by Amanda Anderson (as you can see above) the Director of the Moorland Association, by the…
This looks interesting…
‘When a ‘sport’ becomes a crime wave’ This’ll be an interesting one for the Moorland Association to field. Will it be Amanda ‘If we let the hen harrier in, we will soon have nothing else‘ Anderson, or the new chair of the Moorland Association, that’s Mark William Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Lord Masham, the future Earl of…