See you at Rainham Marshes on 6 August

RSPB will be hosting a Hen Harrier Day event at their Rainham Marshes nature reserve on Saturday 6 August (time TBC) organised by Birders Against Wildlife Crime and Mark Avery. Chris Packham will be speaking. Check back on the BAWC Hen Harrier Day website for more details from mid-May and on social media #HHDay2016. The…

Jeremy Deller confirms attendance at Hen Harrier Eve event

Jeremy Deller is a Turner Prize-winning artist, one of whose works is pictured above (and another below). I talked to him back in the autumn. Jeremy has just confirmed he can attend the Hen Harrier Eve event in the Palace Hotel in Buxton on the evening of 8 August (before a Hen Harrier Day rally…

Hen Harrier Day 2015 – thoughts?

It’s time to start thinking about what to do on Hen Harrier Day 2015 – which will be Sunday 9 August (the Sunday before the Inglorious 12th). Birders Against Wildlife Crime are organising a conference in Buxton in March and I’m sure that the subject will come up there.   Here are some questions to…

Hen Harrier Day update

The possibility of five events, across the North of England, all on Sunday 10 August, to show public outrage at the criminal killing of Hen Harriers, is being explored. The RSPB supports Hen Harrier Day but other wildlife conservation organisations have kept quiet so far.  We are waiting for the county wildlife trusts, individually or…

Hen Harrier day update

Hen Harrier Day – 10 August 2014 – is an opportunity for the public to express their concern over the widespread, illegal killing of Hen Harriers.  Action is being planned for five localities in the north of England for that day: the Forest of Bowland, Cumbria, Northumberland, Yorkshire and the Peak District.  This is the…