The Wildlife Trusts were, as I recall, the first wildlife NGO to support the option of the UK remaining in the EU and that was back in March. And their statement was admirably clear: ‘The Wildlife Trusts believe that our wildlife and habitats will be better off if they continue to benefit from EU environmental…
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Bizarre – or what?
There are only a few reasons for this letter to be written and published. These are my best guesses: it was raining yesterday and Ian Coghill was bored – and presumably The Times didn’t have any decent letters to publish GWCT and the shooting industry are so rattled by the growth of support for the…
I was in …
This time last week I was in Slovakia – in the Kosice region of eastern Slovakia. Well done to those who guessed correctly but the fact that Poland and Hungary were more popular choices shows that Slovakia has some ground to make up with British birders looking for a bird-rich destination in eastern central Europe. …
Technically OK?
A quick question about the performance of this blog (it’s not about whether you like it or not). Does the blog load quickly or not? Have you noticed any change in speed over recent months or not? I’m being offered all sorts of different hosting options and I’d like some feedback before i make any…
Where was I? 2
On my recent trip abroad I also saw Clouded Apollo butterfly, Fire Salamander and a tree gnawed down by Beavers. Other birds included River Warbler, Pygmy Cormorant and White-tailed Eagle.
Where was I?
I’ve been abroad in Europe for the last few days. Where do you think I was? I saw my first ever singing Barred Warbler (having seen lots skulking in bushes on the east coast of England over the years), my first ever White-backed Woodpecker and quite a few Ferruginous Ducks. Where would you go to…
We need to think about Giles
Giles Bradshaw has commented on this blog over 600 times and many of those comments have been on the subject of the Hunting Act – a subject on which I don’t recall ever writing a blog (although you can find a comment on it in Inglorious pp106-07). A long time ago, I did publish a…
Splat!
A long time ago, the RSPB tried to persuade car drivers, lorry drivers etc to put a square patch of plastic on the front of their cars and send it in to us to assess the number of splatted insects on it. The ‘splatometer’ was a one-summer wonder but sometimes I wish we had persevered…
The Different Whitethroat
Hunting Solutions – the abuse continues
You may remember that the tweet above by @huntingsolution and its retweet by Nicholas Soames MP caused quite a storm last week. Hunting Solutions are still at it too – posting a variety of nasty tweets about me over the last few days. And you can see Hunting Solutions have some other shooting chums. …