isn’t Bruce Springsteen fantastic?! Maybe not relevant to most topics on this blog but I have spent a large part of the day with The Boss on in the background on Spotify. I even joined in sometimes. yesterday Barry Gardiner MP (Lab Brent North) called for a parliamentary debate on whether to ban driven grouse…
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All in a name
It was almost bound to happen, and of course I had noticed the name of the winner of the 2:30 at Cheltenham before the race began. Although horses don’t know their names (or do they?), and you can call your horse Pegasus and it won’t necessarily fly home ahead of the others, it’s difficult not…
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! What was your first wildlife sighting of 2016?
New Year’s resolutions? Try these to help wildlife.
Here are a few New Year resolutions for you to consider. You can pick and choose or ignore them altogether! Be proud of the fact that you love wildlife – it’s everyone else who is odd – and talk to people on buses, in queues, in the pub etc about wildlife. You can be a…
Henry’s year in images
The conflict between driven grouse shooting and Hen Harriers like Henry (or rather, not very like Henry) is a real one. Hen Harriers eat enough grouse seriously to reduce grouse bags when they are shot for fun. Grouse shooting interests illegally kill enough Hen Harriers in the UK to reduce their population to c6-800 pairs…
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A Happy Christmas to all our Readers!
It’s a big story
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A few weeks ago I sat under a dinosaur as two others walked past. The wonderful setting of the Natural History Museum was the scene for the recording of The Big Story which will be broadcast this evening at 8pm and again on Christmas morning at 6am. You can see in the image above that…
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Last week I went to the Isle of Sheppey and stood on a mound as the light faded. Red-legged Partridges and Pheasants added their non-native voices to that of a Robin (Britain’s favourite bird) as the light faded. Two Green Sandpipers flew up from the channel in front of me and I was pleased that…
PM or PR?
David Cameron is presiding over one of the most radical Conservative governments ever with its assault on social services and the role of the state in general – and yet he himself doesn’t seem to have any strong views. Unlike the Thatcher years (can you remember them? Yes, me too) the position of the Prime…
Spider numbers creep up
It was in a fairly early blog here that I told you about the reintroduction of Ladybird Spiders at Arne RSPB nature reserve. More than four years later it’s good to hear that this project is going well. Surveys show that the spiders are expanding outside of the original release areas. Toby Branston, RSPB Dorset…