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This morning I blogged about this plaque on this building in the North York Moors National Park. The building is a shooting hut or lodge and the plaque is one of those that indicates funding from the Lottery – in this case through Sport England. I’m grateful to the media team in Sport England for…

This isn’t much of a blog post to start the week but there are two reasons for that. Last week I was under the weather for a few days, nothing serious, although being a man I assumed that I was dying, although again, being a man I didn’t do anything dramatic like asking a doctor,…

  Modern technology is opening up the details of bird movements in a very exciting way. A Green Sandpiper was fitted with a GPS tag at Lemsford Springs, near Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire in April this year and was recaptured there, enabling the tag to be removed, on 30 July. GPS tags collect information…

This from the BTO website: ‘One of our Goshawks began automatically reporting its position soon after leaving its nest in Thetford Forest on 23 July 2016. Over the following few weeks it visited Narborough, Roydon Common and the Sandringham area. The bird was reported to BTO by Sandringham Estate as having been found dead on 9…

James McCarthy of Wales Online tells the shocking tale of lots of poisoned birds of prey being found on the Glanusk Estate near Crickhowell which is owned by the Legge-Bourke family. It’s well worth a read especially as ‘this incident has not been reported until now‘. It is well worth a read. It is well…

I haven’t had many entries yet for this blog’s writing competition – but then, if you are like me, you never submit anything until the last moment. Closing date: 10 September Length: 400-1200 words Categories: invertebrates international wildlife wildlife and the arts wildlife and politics Plus a prize for the best 18 years or younger…

    I like the look of this partnership but I also know the site – and it’s lovely.  There’s a golf course just on the other side of Loch Fleet for heaven’s sake! ‘The Scottish Wildlife Trust, RSPB Scotland, BugLife and Plantlife Scotland have come together to campaign against a proposal to build a…