Would you like diclofenac with that ?

Tomorrow is vulture awareness day, and I see that today, staff at the RSPB HQ in Sandy are having a vulture themed lunch! ‘Pass on the diclofenac’ should be the message and that message is getting through after years of effort. I took the paper to the RSPB Board to get involved in vulture conservation…

Clever

  I’ve just had an email from the Corbyn campaign (you’ve already got my vote Jeremy!) – I get about five a day from the various candidates.   It contained this paragraph: ‘We cannot write off rural areas as “the Tory shires”, abandoning communities struggling with issues such as housing costs, public service cuts and…

August was a record month for this blog

For the first month ever, this blog received over 100,000 page views (103,727) – previous best was August 2014 (88,787 page views: and two previous months with over 80,000 (July 2014 and May 2015). It also recorded the second highest number of unique visitors through the month – 21,687 (cf 22,238 in June 2014). This…

Keep one, drop one

Last year, at about this time of year, I joined both the Hawk and Owl Trust and the League Against Cruel Sports. Because of their eager campaigning for brood meddling for Hen Harriers I have left the H&OT (I must put that metal badge in the post to them) but I recently got a renewal…