A new scientific study has shown that crows, including Magpies and Ravens, do not have as big an impact on bird populations as has previously been thought. This has implications for the legality of some aspects of gamekeeping in the UK. It is one of the most obvious things in the world to imagine that…
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Sent yours yet?
I’m finishing off writing my Christmas cards today. I sent out quite a few earlier in December. A whole bunch of my friends received ‘Findlay Wilde cards’ as above: Mike Clarke, Martin Harper, Liz Truss, Amanda Anderson,Charlie Moores (but not Charles Moore), Lt General Sir Barnabas White-Spunner, Teresa Dent, Andrew Sells, Richard Ali…
The Monro challenge
Dear ‘Monro’ You arrived on this blog in mid-October and I have let you post over 100 comments here since that time – more than any other commenter. All your comments are on grouse shooting and Hen Harriers. You are becoming highly repetitive and slightly irritating. By the way, your comments have elicited about 872…
Last before Christmas
[No book review this week – I’ve been too busy to read]. I am keen on National Hunt racing, as regular readers will know. And I’m a member at Cheltenham as that is where, overall, the best of British NH racing takes place. So I headed off from Northants to Glos on Saturday morning. But…
An end of year survey
What do you think of wildlife NGOs, political parties, this website and a few other things? Just a dozen easy questions – and it is anonymous. Click here to take part. Poll will close late December, results here early January.
End wildlife crime – a messsage to all MPs
Tomorrow is the Rally for Nature organised by the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and the League Against Cruel Sports working together – for the first time ever? The rally is also supported by Butterfly Conservation, the Mammal Society and The Ramblers. If you have not yet done so, please contact your MP through this handy webpage…
Quiz results
I set you a quiz and none of you won! But thank you for playing – I hope it was a bit of fun. These were your commonest (very sensible) but incorrect selections, with some comments from me: Coal Tit – I had to check that I hadn’t missed it off by accident! But no…
Pheasant worship
I was sent this photo by a reader of this blog. It comes from ‘An Illustrated Manual of British Birds’ by Howard Saunders (1889) :- ‘As regards the British Islands, the epithet “common” is annually becoming less and less applicable to this species; but there are wild and wooded districts in England – especially…
Be there online
Next Tuesday’s Rally for Nature is just about full – physically full. If you want to attend the speeches etc then you will have to get a move on and register very soon to avoid disappointment. However, you can still email your MP and tell them and their political party to do more for wildlife….
Last chance
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Today’s the last chance to have a go at this simple little quiz. Any entries to be posted as comments on this blog by 10pm. Which five species of bird have I seen over the years at Stanwick Lakes and omitted from the list? A signed copy of A Message from Martha or…