The Times reports today that Eurotunnel is the last remaining route into the UK for millions of French-bred Pheasant chicks after ferry companies boycotted the imports. From The Times report (by Will Humphries) it appears that Eurotunnel was unaware of the numbers of live birds being imported on 3.5 tonne trucks and that animals are…
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Pasqueflowers at Barnack at Easter
Sometimes the Easter break comes at the right time for Pasqueflowers, and sometimes the weather is perfect. This is one such year. Make the most of the glorious weather this Bank Holiday weekend. Mostly these county flowers of Cambridgeshire are fenced in but occasionally one does a runner, like the one below, and can be…
Those Europeans…
Those Europeans coming over here rebuilding our habitats and our wildlife… See here Interesting, isn’t it (I think it is) that it isn’t our governments, it isn’t our millionnaires, it isn’t our NGOs, who are leading on rewilding our knackered uplands on a massive scale… Why not?
Have you noticed…?
Natural England has not announced its review of the General Licences yet… I think they are in a corner and don’t know how to get out – but I may be wrong.
Gamekeepers plan to say that gamekeepers are wonderful – shock!
Gamekeepers are asking themselves whether they are wonderful and are expected to say ‘Yes, we are!’. It’s a fairly obvious point but – wouldn’t it be more impressive if gamekeepers could get others to say how wonderful they are? And I don’t mean their employers! If the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and other real conservation organisations…
You don’t see this very often…
I went back to check on a paper on heather burning which was published a few years ago and found that something had been added to it. 10 January 2019In the version of this Article originally published, the authors neglected to include information on Competing Interests; this has now been included in all versions of…
Getting close
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The crowdfunder by The Seahorse Trust (see Guest blog here) has passed £10,000 and is heading towards its target of £12,000 with 8 days to go to raise the balance. I wish them success!
Two mornings of Sand Martins
I haven’t been out much recently but yesterday morning I had a walk around my local patch of Stanwick Lakes and the star bird was the Sand Martin – there were hundreds of them! Sand Martin – in flight meal. Photo: Tim Melling In fact, a local birder who gets out earlier than I, said…
Wind turbines – what do you think?
I do notice them, but they have become familiar now, whereas ten years ago they seemed strange and new. I can see this bunch from my house, although it requires a bit of neck-stretching and straining to do so. This morning they were whizzing round in the wind (apart from one of them – there’s…
Thinking of subscribing…
The current Shooting Times magazine is so full of interesting and puzzling articles I am seriously considering taking out a subscription. And it’s nearly time for the next weekly offering. Lindsay Waddell, retired gamekeeper from the Raby estate, writes about the new rules governing heather without actually telling us what they are. I assume he…