I’ve enjoyed the response of the GWCT to my criticisms of their little booklet: The Moorland Balance, Moorland Imbalance (1), Moorland Imbalance (2), Moorland Imbalance (3), Moorland Imbalance (4) and Moorland Imbalance (5). Their little booklet would be better entitled the Bluffer’s Guide to Moorland Imbalance. And I’m sure we will hear some of the…
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Scotland’s gun-toting legal system
It’s always difficult to imagine exactly how the other half live – it’s even more difficult for most of us to imagine how most of the establishment live. I came across an interesting article the other day which, based on Freedom of Information requests, documents the arsenal of weapons held by members of the Scottish…
Email your MP about the ‘Great’ ‘Repeal’ Bill
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High Water, Common Ground
I was lucky enough to attend the world premier of this film on Friday. There were about 100 of us in the Picturehouse at Hebden Bridge. Some of the readers of this blog will remember that Hebden Bridge lies below the infamous Walshaw Moor – and that Hebden Bridge flooded badly in 2012 and on…
Captions?
Michael Gove: the Hen Harrier badge? Someone called Amanda gave it to me. She said they keep falling out of the sky outside her kitchen window. Seemed a bit crazy to me. Michael: will you stop going on about Hen Harriers? Michael: I never mentioned them actually.
Makes me smile every time…
This sign is used for various country fairs across the land and it is used every year. As birders head north to the Norfolk coast to enjoy whatever migrants are hopping around in bushes between Holme and Cromer, many see this sign and it reminds them of… a Sandringham estate gamekeeper being convicted of setting…
Vishal Jadhav – Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher
Vishal writes: This is a male Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher. I always refer to this bird as the Colour Bomb of the Western Ghats. This bird becomes extremely active and vocal during the monsoons when the semi evergreen forests of the Ghats really turn into a dark maze as the cloud cover thickens and the undergrowth…
Review – The Beauty of the Sound Approach
This is a selection of bird songs – quite an eclectic selection from Caspian Snowcock to Greater Hoopoe-Lark and from Marsh Sandpiper to Wood Warbler by way of Gyr Falcon, Western Olivaceous Warbler and Red-rumped Wheatear. This is the first time that The Sound Approach has produced recordings on vinyl. For young readers, vinyl is…
Getting letters from your MP
Writing to your MP is one thing (a thing to which I’ll come back) but after you have written then you are likely to receive a reply. Here is a checklist of things to do when you get a response from your MP: enjoy the yellow envelope with the portcullis on it, and the thick…
Last chance…
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If you’d like to enter this blog’s writing competition then you had better get a move on – entries close at midnight tonight. Your task is to write a review of George Monbiot’s Feral and send it to me at mark@markavery.info. I’ve had some entries already but not so many as to make you think…