There has clearly been a plague of pigeons attacking this valuable heather crop on an SSSI in the Peak District – that’s the only reason for employing bird-scaring devices such as this gas gun (and what are those white flags for?) in an SSSI during the breeding season. Obviously. Since a gas gun doesn’t fall…
Tag: hen harrier
New Chair of EAC
Huw Irranca-Davies, former Defra Minister and former shadow minister, was today elected as chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (following the stepping down at the last general election of the excellent Joan Walley). Huw, once voted 48th sexiest man in Wales (nowhere near as sexy as the Hen Harrier of course) follows a class act…
Glen Tanar – Henry is impressed
Glen Tanar – great place. And a man cycles past without giving Henry a second glance. I don’t think there have been any Hen Harriers at Glen Tanar for a while but when I visited in 2011, I was impressed by what was happening there. I talked to Colin McLean who was then the estate…
M&S
Dear Marc Bolland Just a recap really in case you are thinking of selling red grouse meat in your shops this year. Some things that have happened since your excellent decision not to see red grouse meat in your shops last year: I started shopping at M&S again governments, including the EU (and including the…
Henry goes to Dinnet – were you driving past?
We’d just been to Balmoral (oops! – haven’t told you about that one yet) and this place seemed to ring a bell or two so we stopped to have a look and a photo. I’ve noticed, because it’s me taking the photos, that there is a difference between how men and women react as they…
Henry enters a National Park
Henry enters the Cairngorms National Park – more raptors on the logo than in the park? #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.
Puffins, red-faced with embarrassment
It’s been a bad few weeks for the Puffin – only tenth in the vote for our national bird and listed in the European Red List of birds. It’s not having a good 2015. The first was just a bit of fun, the latter is a matter of life and extinction. The Puffin is one…
Sunday book review – Tales from Concrete Jungles by David Lindo
A book about birds in towns didn’t immediately appeal to me. Birding in built up areas has always seemed to me to be making the best of a bad job rather than a good choice. But I was persuaded by the tales that the Urban Birder tells here. David Lindo – he of the national…
Occupy the butts!
Henry and I were having a chat in a grouse butt in Perthshire the other day…as you do. A few minutes after this photograph was taken a lady passed us in a car with a Scottish Gamekeepers’ Association sticker on it. That reminds me – we must call in on them soon. But Henry and…
What’s that noise Henry?
Did you hear a loud bang Henry? Maybe it was a gas gun? You need to read this on Raptor Persecution Scotland. #HaveYouSeenHenry? Keep in touch with Hen Harrier Day events through this website.