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A’Mhoine 2

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This is interesting.  It relates to the plan, or should that be incredibly vague idea, to build a space port (whatever that might be) on the A’Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland – ‘a remote boggy stretch of land’. Have a look at this journey made by a young Golden Eagle in 2014 where it headed off…

Teresa?

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Dent‘s 4am wake-up call sounds like “shotgun” – Westmorland Gazette

So exciting…!

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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…

Lia is down

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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

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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?

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  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…