Standing up for Nature
A step in the right direction for the Seahorse Trust. Yesterday the Seahorse Trust sought, and was granted, permission to bring judicial review proceedings. Permission was granted on all grounds following a 3 hour hearing at Court 46 of the Royal Courts of Justice. There will now be a full 2-day substantive hearing in the…
When Charlie Jacobey was telling me what I thought, and occasionally letting me get a word in edgeways, he reckoned that there were just a few bad apples in the shooting industry. I reckoned there were lots. The latest very sad news of a Hen Harrier caught in a trap on a grouse shooting estate…
See Raptor Persecution UK – more on this news later today
How about the bird above? It’s a fairly common species, although I see it less often than I used to do. Yesterday’s two teasers: This bird is a washed-out Robin photographed in a Devon garden recently. It may be leucistic but after reading this interesting paper I am not so sure. But it is a…
This robin-like bird was recently filmed in a Devon garden – it looks not only robin-like but Robin-like to me. I think it is a Robin. But it’s very washed out. It’s obviously not a Redbreast nor a typical juvenile recently out of the nest. It’s very pale but it is not albino. How do…
Here is Henry Morris, with a very painful Achilles tendon, leading the pack of runners up the finish after 200km of running across the grouse moor killing fields of the north of England at 2pm today. Henry covered all the 200km and was accompanied by a range of friends, family and supporters for parts of…
Henry Morris and friends are doing an amazing run across the grouse moors of the north of England to highlight the plight of Hen Harriers. In the last two days, Henry, accompanied by a relay of friends, has run 82 miles. He’s half way through but today is the most difficult of the four days…
This was Bowland Knotts yesterday evening – it was a lovely clear evening. It’s a pretty deserted place on the road across the moors from Slaidburn to Clapham in Bowland – a few Curlew and lots of Meadow Pipits – but there was a relatively big crowd there at 8am this morning as the Marathon…
How odd https://mrkortingscode.nl/toplists/top-20-natures-blog-2019/
Yesterday I drove up to Wheldrake Ings to have a chat with the Countryfile crew (above, Charlotte Smith on right) about Wild Justice. I was listening to The Jam’s ‘News of the World’ just before I stopped at the Ferrybridge Services and saw this news of a Hen Harrier that died with its leg in…
