I’m home again after a great Hen Harrier weekend. Thank you to BAWC and all the individual organisers for the work they put into making it a success. Rainham Marshes was hot and sunny. Parkgate was mild and dry despite the promise of rain – and we saw a ringtail Hen Harrier over the marsh….
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An interesting contrast – the good, the bad and the ugly
Reaction from the shooting community to the sound of shooting and the coverage of a trapped Peregrine on a grouse moor in the Forest of Bowland: The Good: BASC are pretty much spot on in what they say: BASC statement on RSPB peregrine film BASC utterly condemns raptor persecution and other wildlife crime. There…
Bowland Gull Cull 21
Many thanks to the reader of this blog who pointed me in this direction (click here) where we find this table… …which goes back as far as 2012 but only appears to have 12 cases in it, but the two at the end of the list are as follows; So, Bowland is in the news…
Labour and rural ‘eco-zealot’ voters
This post is about the Labour Party, as seen through the eyes of one member (me) who is wondering how to vote in the NEC elections. I am being careful not to name names but I am going to give you a flavour of how I have approached my voting decisions and how frustrating the…
Fake Bird News anyone?
The Angus Glens Moorland Group need not only to go to Specsavers but also back to school (where I imagine they might spend quite a lot of time in detention). Their maths, English, science and logic are all in need of some education. Raptor Persecution UK have quite rightly taken the mickey out of…
Bowland Gull Cull 16 – the MoU
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Reading NE’s reponse to me (a response after over a year) it looked like there might not have been any consent to kill Lesser Black-backed Gull in the Bowland Fells SPA that was partly notified to protect them. But the next place to look seemed to be the MoU that NE sent me and which…
Tomorrow, Sheffield kicks off 2018 Hen Harrier ‘days’
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Tomorrow morning Sheffield kicks off a great line-up of Hen Harrier Day events (a week ahead of anyone else!). Last year’s event on Devonshire Green was very good – I’m sure this one will be too. The best of luck to all the speakers – and if you possibly can show your support…
Lots of satellite-tagged Hen Harriers
These are some words from Inglorious (written in 2014), they are the imagined words of an ex-gamekeeper writing of the demise of driven grouse shotoing p253-54): ‘In the end, with all that satellite-tag stuff, you could hardly point your shotgun at a bird of prey without fearing it might be a tagged bird that…
Hen Harriers still in the news
Today’s Farming Today is worth a listen (8 minutes in). There is a conversation between the Moorland Association’s Amanda ‘If we let the Hen Harrier in, we will soon have nothing else‘ Anderson and the much more rational and consistent RSPB spokesperson, Cathleen Thomas. Amanda sticks to the nonsense about it being ‘the grouse shooters…
Macca and the Stoats
Press release from RSPB and SNH The Orkney Native Wildlife Project, which is a partnership between Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and RSPB Scotland, aims to protect Orkney’s native wildlife by removing stoats, an invasive non-native predator that was first recorded in Orkney in 2010. Stoats are native to the UK Mainland but not…