Looking very snug there Henry! Occupy the butts! Go to a grouse moor, find a grouse butt, take a photograph of yourself occupying the butt, send in the photograph to this website. Finding one of these butts is easy – you don’t have to walk for miles across the moors – a lot of them…
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A moor too Farr Henry?
Henry looks a bit glum on the road to Farr. #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.
Bowland – signs of the times
Let’s not forget that four male Hen Harriers have ‘disappeared’ this breeding season from active nests in the AONB of the Forest of Bowland whose logo is a Hen Harrier. The Duke of Westminster owns the grouse moor of Abbeystead in the Trough of Bowland but there are a couple of other sporting estates there…
Henry goes to Coignafearn
Every time I open a Tetra Pak I hope I am helping eagles. Coignafearn is an unusual Scottish estate, set at the end of the road west of Tomatin (Tom-aaaahhh-tin) and owned by the Tetra Pak heiress Sigrid Rausing. Her aim is to restore the ecology of the estate and she has a passion for…
Which way Henry? Which way?
Which way to go? Tomatin, which I had always thought was Tom-a-tin but is actually Tom-aaahhh-tin (according to Henry), has an excellent burger van by the A9 which does the very best bacon rolls. It’s called TasteBuds and the guy who runs it is very chatty – as well as providing very good bacon rolls….
Looking forward to…
…speaking to the Surrey Bird Club on Friday evening at their meeting which starts at 1945 in East Horsley Village Hall. There will be copies of A Message from Martha …and even of Fighting for Birds and much…
The ghostly male Hen Harrier
That’s a bloody enormous male Hen Harrier flying across the Cairngorms! It took us, that’s me and Henry, weeks to pile the snow up like that but everyone on the A9 saw it…didn’t they? #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.
Oddest sighting of Hen Harrier?
A reader of this blog was pleased to see a male Hen Harrier pictured on this Environment Agency sign on the Jubilee river (which is the flood prevention scheme near Slough – of all places). It would be possible to see a Hen Harrier near there in winter but it would be a good…
Seven weeks today
In seven weeks time, at 1930, an evening to celebrate the Hen Harrier will start in the Palace Hotel, Buxton. The event will feature Chris Packham, Mark Cocker, Henry the Hen Harrier and myself, and a cast of a thousands (or a few anyway). Tickets will go on sale in July and are likely to…
Occupy this naked butt!
Doesn’t this butt look just right for occupation? A while ago someone tried to post a comment on this blog, and then followed up with another comment. Both are reproduced below in edited versions. I have edited the two comments to remove anything that might be libellous or offensive, and to protect the identity…