Following the nonsense in The Telegraph and the correction to the misinformation in the Guardian yesterday, it is good to see a press release from the Northumberland Hen Harrier Protection Partnership with information about the two successful nests of Hen Harriers that have nested on FC land this year. First, note that this partnership involves…
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It gets worse, or better, depending which side you are on…
Read this piece in the Guardian by Karl Mathieson. The YFTB press release: The government figures show that there were 12 hen harrier nests in England this year of which 6 succeeded and 6 failed. All 6 of the failures were on RSPB controlled land in Bowland and Geltsdale. All 6 of the successful nests…
A better year for Hen Harriers in England – not a good year
The ‘government report’ mentioned in yesterday’s awful Telegraph misconstruction of a story has turned, as I said it would, into a Natural England press release (copied below)(Telegraph fail). And the criticism of the RSPB has turned into … well … nothing (Telegraph fail). It’s interesting that two of the successful nests are on FC land…
Henry amongst friends and heading to Hen Harrier Day
Henry and I visited the RSPB at The Lodge – and gathered quite a crowd! As well as Bob the Squirrel there is the RSPB Conservation Director, Martin Harper, in the photograph and quite a few friends of mine and of Henry’s. The RSPB feature so many times in Inglorious that I’m not going to…
More on the Game Fair
Yesterday I didn’t go to the Game Fair but the Today programme did. And Farming Today were there too. Farming Today repeated C(W)TG’s Andrew Gilruth’s inability to answer a question here after about 15 minutes. Did you notice how Andrew claimed that grouse moors had been designated because they were teeming with wildlife? He’s such…
Henry’s Game Fair
I’ve been to many Game Fairs but this was Henry’s first. He was a little bit nervous but he had a gaggle of burly minders with him. As well as myself there were Lawrie and Phil from BAWC and Alan Davies from The Biggest Twitch. It was a rather quiet Game Fair I felt, fewer…
Henry goes to London – Defra
Henry has been keen to go to London for a long time – but we only flew down there a week ago. What a great day it was – so many photo opportunities – only some of which we can share with you this week. And so many friendly conversations with taxi drivers, tourists and…
In your August copy of …(3)
You should buy The Field this month – you really should (and you should buy Birdwatch every month, of course). I found ‘Bransdale’s resurgence‘ an interesting read, partly because Henry and I had visited some of the places mentioned in this article on our travels. Bransdale is a moor in the North York Moors –…
In your August copy of… (1)
Birdwatch magazine excels itself by putting the Hen Harrier on its front cover for its August issue (as it did last year) and featuring the plight of the Hen Harrier and Hen Harrier Day events on six pages inside the magazine including my ‘Political birder’ column, a page of information about Hen Harrier Day events…
E-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
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Do you ever get a feeling of deja vu? Do you ever get a feeling of deja vu? Yesterday the Westminster parliament website started allowing e-petitions again. The website is a bit jazzier and it’s in a nice Westminster green colour. E-petitions still need to get 10,000 signatures to receive a government response (none of…