Walk for Wildlife – 22 September
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Teresa?
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Dent‘s 4am wake-up call sounds like “shotgun” – Westmorland Gazette
So exciting…!
Friday afternoon, around 1630, is the peak time for NE to reply to my FOI/EIR requests. Since we are promised a response by the end of July my guess is that it will either be late this afternoon or last thing on Tuesday. And of course it will have been worth waiting for nearly 13…
Walk for Wildlife – 22 September
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Lia is down
The RSPB announced yesterday that a female Hen Harrier (Lia), satellite-tagged in north Wales in 2017, was found dead in suspicious circumstances in mid Wales, near Tylwch, south of Llanidloes, in May this year. The results of the post mortem examination suggest that she might have been shot (although the evidence given is suggestive but…
Potteric Carr – really wild
I was at Potteric Carr on Sunday and before I did my little event for them (which was fun, if a bit sweaty) I had a walk around the nature reserve. I saw several of Plantlife’s Pickable12 flowers including quite a lot of Meadowsweet from this hide. I also saw my first of three Bittern…
The last straw?
Bought in a cafe in Idaho – a metal straw and cleaner to reduce the number of plastic straws one uses (provided you remember to take it with you). There aren’t many circumstances where a straw is really needed, and they usually turn up in places where your drink has arrived in a plastic…
Sunday is International Bog Day #bogday
This short charming video by Andrew Clark (see here and here) is to mark International Bog Day on Sunday.
Red Grouse in Iceland?
No, we aren’t going back to that well-known place to buy frozen foods but to that well-known country of Gyr Falcons, King Eiders and Brunnich’s Guillemots. Apparently, the traditional Icelandic Christmas dish is a Ptarmigan, but numbers have declined and so Iceland has imposed strict quotas on numbers shot. Birds should only be shot for…
Flowers we can pick (7) – Red Campion
Plantlife, the charity which speaks up for the nation’s plants, says that it’s OK to pick these 12 common flowers (provided you don’t go beserk in the woods and fields of the UK). Three things you might not know about Red Campion according to Plantlife. Another alternative name from the Wildlife Trusts probably relates to…