Fair enough – I thought that might be the response. Is it reasonable to take all 20 working days to answer an enquiry whose answer was always going to be this? The 20 working day period for response is supposed to be the maximum available in order for the relevant enquiries to be made. NE…
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The future of grouse shooting?
Have a look at this machine that lobs clays towards grouse butts in ways that somewhat match the flight of Red Grouse packs over the shooters. I’d be interested to hear how similar the shooting experience is from those who blast grouse out of the air. Could this replace ‘real’ grouse shooting? I somehow doubt…
22 September
Three things you can do: 1. Please come to Hyde Park on Saturday 22 September and walk for wildlife. 2. If you can’t come, then show your support on this virtual wall (an idea suggested by a reader of this blog). 3. Chip in to help fund the costs of this event.
Celebrating Peter Melchett
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This website, Celebrating Peter, has been set up so that people can share their memories of the late Peter Melchett. There are already some poignant and touching tributes to him there.
Hearing date confirmed
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Our case (and RSPB’s too) against the decision of Natural England to license brood meddling of Hen Harriers will be heard in the Royal Court of Justice on 5-6 December 2018. You can come and watch! See you there.
Meet me, don’t eat me
I met some Minke Whales in Iceland yesterday. Some were swimming around off Reykjavik being watched by boatloads of happy whale-watchers (above) but others were for sale in a local supermarket.
Where am I?
I’m in Iceland.
Watch this video by Lizzie Daly
Silent Slaughter: the shooting of Scotland’s seals. Disturbing.
Five year old prince taken grouse shooting
The Royal Family do some strange things. The appearance in the news (see here, here, here, here) that 5-year-old Prince George had been taken to experience his first grouse shoot could not have been an accident. In 2008, it was revealed that Prince George’s great-grandmother donated money to Songbird Survival. Earlier this year the Queen…
Passenger Pigeon Day
On 1 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon on Earth, named Martha, died of old age in a cage in Cincinatti Zoo. Once the most numerous bird on Earth, the last Passenger Pigeon in the wild expired in 1900 or perhaps 1901 and the bird was known only in captivity after that. A bird that…