To dip: verb, slang: to miss a sighting of an interesting, often rare example of wildlife (usually bird) which is known to be or recently has been in an area. Being in the right place at the wrong time. I still haven’t seen the Hen Harrier that is hanging around on my local patch of…
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Lodge Hill – news
Homes England press release: Homes England has proposed a new approach to the Lodge Hill development on the Hoo Peninsula in Medway, which will avoid direct Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) impacts on the Lodge Hill site. Following further careful consideration of the environmental sensitivities in and around the site, the new plans are for up…
Your National Parks and AONBs need you!
If you are going to respond to the consultation on National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England, and I do hope you will, then you have until 18 December (that’s Tuesday) to do so. Maybe a task for this weekend? Here is the link. It doesn’t take very long to respond to…
Just rubbish
We have our rubbish (non-recyclable) collected once a fortnight. This was the contents of our bin two weeks ago so it didn’t seem worth putting out. Yesterday, after another two weeks, we had added another small bag (mostly plastic wrapping that is non-recyclable)(see below). But further down our street the bins are bulging (every fortnight),…
Going, going…
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Time is running short to order signed copies of Remarkable Birds – the ideal Christmas present for so many people! Stocks are getting lower all the time and I won’t be able to order more copies from the publisher and then get them to you before Christmas when current stocks run out. So, if you…
Not finished yet.
Our judicial review of brood meddling needs a third day. We don’t yet know when that day might be. More information when I have more information.
A fairly proper reply
A fairly sensible response from Defra is now beginning to find its way back to MPs and their constituents. Here, below is one sent me by a reader of this blog and I had a very similar letter at the weekend too. Those of you who have written to your MPs and not taken their…
This week
It’s a busy week. I’m giving a talk to the mid-Norfolk Wildlife Trust group on Tuesday evening – see you there? Maybe I’ll fit in a bit of birding on the way there but I’ll be back home late and then up early for an early train from Wellingborough station to the High Court. I…
In a week’s time – how will I feel?
In a week’s time our judicial review hearing will be over and we will be guessing what the judge made of it. At the moment we are guessing who the judge will be and we may not hear until the day before the hearing. We are also guessing as to exactly the format of the…
Just asking…
Yesterday’s blog on the rather mindless comments of the NFU to the proposal to reintroduce White-tailed Eagles to the Isle of Wight attracted a lot of good comments. Thank you! And of course I agree that any such proposal needs proper evaluation and that should include public consultation with a wide range of people. How…