SNH are pretty helpful when it comes to answering questions of a media variety. Yesterday I asked them whether they had issued any licences for wild hacking in Scotland this year which they could have answered with a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’. I also said that I’d be interested in where they were with any…
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Is it wild hacking time in Scotland?
You might remember a series of blogs I’ve written about wild hacking of Gyr Falcons in two parts of Scotland. Last year SNH licensed the temporary release of 100 Gyr Falcons in Ayrshire and 150 in Moray in the period 1 June to September and with no more than 40 at a time in each…
Over 7 million page views
Over the past nine years (approximately) this blog has had 7 million page views. The plot above is a monthly charting of that. Good, bad or irrelevant?
Voting will close on Sunday evening
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There have been over 190 votes cast for your favourite entry in this blog’s Lockdown Nature-writing challenge. Voting will close on Sunday evening after I have watched the last episode of Primates on TV. The voting is largely for fun but the more people who vote, the more the authors will feel that their work…
Lockdown Nature-writing challenge
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At the time of writing there have been 91 votes cast for your favourite of the dozen entries (probably more by now) in this challenge to write about nature and lockdown. One entry has 20 of the 91 votes and one has a single vote: and the rest are strung out pretty evenly across the…
Voting for your favourite
I received over 40 entries to this blog’s Lockdown Nature-writing challenge – you can choose your favourite. Here is a list of the dozen shortlisted entries, with links, so that you can reach them all from here. Entry A Entry B Entry C Entry D Entry E Entry F Entry G Entry H Entry I…
Entry L – by Sharon Pinner
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Lockdown Birdwatch In between wondering just how much chocolate I must buy to make it last a whole week and working on university assignments, I have spent many hours during lockdown in the back garden waiting for birds. Waiting with my camera to hand. I probably shouldn’t have my camera – that would, after all,…
Entry K
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Covid19 Lockdown Diaries – The Unexpected Guest. Lockdown, day in, day out, day in, day out. Break for Lunch, break for Tea (I’m Northern I don’t do Dinner or Supper!) Breakfast, a break from my fast, oh yeah, I get it now! Meal to meal, drink to drink, is it too early? Who’s watching anyway?…
Entry J by Mauro Hernandez
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Don’t Look Back Whether there was a fig tree in the garden, I just can’t remember. I do recall, though, the grapevine roofing over our summer afternoon patio with grandma and my friends. “Had I stayed,” I told my sister via Skype, “I now could have been self-isolating with you, mum, and dad in grandma’s…
Entry I
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S is for Solitude The mantra is that your daily lockdown walk is good for your mental health, so am I alone in thinking that walking in solitude in the countryside increases one’s sense of isolation? I have read a considerable amount of new nature and mindfulness-inspired writing. Now the covid crisis has prompted newspapers…