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This blog was going to be about  a boat trip on the Exe Estuary and all the exciting birds I saw.  However, it’s been raining in the West (or Wet) Country so the Avocet Cruise was cancelled (maybe it was the wind as well). Taunton races inspected and went ahead but Torquay’s game against Northampton…

Argyll farmers want something to be done about White-tailed Eagles. White-tailed Eagles do eat dead lambs and they probably eat a few live ones too – particularly sickly ones. It;s also true that White -tailed Eagles are likely to reduce Golden Eagle numbers in coastal areas.  However, this is a magnificent native bird whose contribution…

You don’t know what a Stejneger’s Scoter might be? Neither did I – click here. I notice that a Lesser Whitethroat was seen in Northampton this week. Grey Phal at Hove – more here.  

…asks the GWCT website. And it’s a good question which certainly isn’t answered by the following text. GWCT are organising a Big Farmland Bird Count (yes, really) for early February in case we all get bored after we can’t shoot pheasants any longer. What next? The NFU Even Bigger Farmland Bird Count and the CLA…