On the basis that ‘Dog bites Man is not news, but Man bites Dog is news’ then I can understand why we saw Giant Trevally fish gobbling up young Sooty Terns. Did you see them? Quite something when a nearly 6-foot fish jumps out of the water to catch a tern in flight. And, above,…
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Today fails to ask Defra Secretary questions on environmental protection
Michael Gove has just run rings around the Today programme (at 08:10, 2hours 10 mins into programme) in his first interview as Environment Secretary. He was asked about funding for farming and pointed out that he agreed with the Conservative election manifesto. That was hard! But he did say that he was meeting the NFU…
Farming Today? No thank you.
I received this email a little while ago from Farming Today: Dear Mark, We’d like to interview you this afternoon for BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme about the appointment of Michael Gove as Defra Secretary. Would you be able to go to a radio studio sometime between 1445 and 1545 this afternoon? It will…
Farming Today on licensing for game shoots in Scotland.
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Farming Today interviewed Ian Thomson from the RSPB about last Wednesday’s proposals to license game shooting in Scotland. Starts 7 minutes 20 seconds into the programme. RSPB not against driven grouse shooting. Scottish Land and Estates all in favour of stamping out wildlife crime but did a Theresa May and sent a note instead of…
Farming Today, today
I’m staying with friends wondering whether Peregrine Run is a good bet in the 2:50 at Cheltenham this afternoon, so when I woke at around the fairly usual 05:15 I didn’t wander down the landing to my computer and start some work. Instead I used my ‘phone as a computer and listened to Farming Today…
Nature in the media
Did you go back to work yesterday? Or maybe today? One of the aspects of being self-employed is that there is less of a hard line between work and play and so I was working over some of the mid-winter break and did a little bit of ‘work’ on almost every day of the last…
Planet Earth 2 again
Next week is the last episode of Planet Earth 2 and I guess it will be about oceans – if so, then it is certain to be brilliant. And last night’s ‘grasslands’ was a very strong programme too. I’ve always wanted to see Saiga antelope and that desire (which I guess will never be realised)…
Strictly will be a desert without Ed Balls…
… so bring on the plague of locusts! Aren’t locusts amazing? Did you see them last night on Planet Earth 2? How amazing?!! But we did do for the Rocky Mountain Locust without even trying – see A Message from Martha p202-03. And the scorpion-eating bat from the Negev? And the shoulder-barging giraffe? And the…
Planet Earth 2 – (3)
No snakes again – where were the chaser, racer, pacer snakes? You can’t go far wrong in a jungle can you? Birds of Paradise? The far end of males being daft just because females demand it (see Remarkable Birds). Jaguars – the Snow Leopards of warm wet places? The Capybara got away just like Ed…
Planet Earth 2
No snakes! Where were the snakes? No slithering chaser snakes, just cute Bobcats, Grizzlies and Snow Leopards. Considering the difficulty of glimpsing a Snow Leopard (I’m told), the cameraperson who got four of them in shot at once (a mother and her daughter with two randy males) must have thought that all their Christmases had…