This was the story – click here. And here is the video… Lovely – just lovely!
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Questions must be asked of NE
The red arrow shows the location of the track which is just north of the public footpath and parallel. The surfacing starts just east of Highshaw Clough. This area is completely within the Special Area of Conservation as shown on the Magic system: Natural England, a few questions: did you receive an application for…
More inappropriate development in the Peak District National Park
Bob Berzins sends these disturbing-looking photographs from the Moscar estate – yes that name may well be familiar Snaring in the Peak District National Park 11 July, Peak District snares – what they say, 12 July. Bob writes, ‘Moscar Estate (owned by the Duke of Rutland) are constructing a surfaced road across Derwent Moor from…
Check out those Bee-eaters
On the spur of the moment, I headed off to see those Nottinghamshire Bee-eaters again yesterday evening. At first it seemed the spur of the wrong moment – the journey was slow and included some diversions and delays. And then on arrival I had a brief, against the sun, distant silhouette view of one bird….
Soaked to UK extinction?
The latest UK survey of Capercaillie, carried out last winter, estimates there to be only 1114 individuals – six years ago the estimate was higher at 1285 individuals. We can regard this as a more-or-less stable population, given the inherent difficulties of counting this species. The press release from RSPB, SNH and Cairngorms National…