I keep being asked by film companies where they could go to film driven grouse shooting or obtain existing footage to use. Any grouse moors out there wishing to reveal the glories of the Inglorious 12th? Anyone know of locations where driven grouse shooting could be filmed from rights of way or the public highway?…
Tag: hen harrier
M&S has gone very quiet on grouse meat sales
Is M&S really going to sell Red Grouse meat in its stores this year? Does M&S really have an industry-leading Code of Practice? And if they do why won’t they share it with their customers who have asked? Doesn’t sound as though they are very proud of it? Will M&S name the estate(s) from which…
Hen Harriers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (not)
Wouldn’t you love to be able to see a food pass by a pair of Hen Harriers in a National Park near you? The Yorkshire Dales National Park has much excellent habitat for Hen Harriers – it ought, with the adjacent Nidderdale AONB, to have at least a dozen nesting pairs. Since 2000, there should,…
It’s not a picnic for Hen Harriers this year
Next week, on Saturday 25 June, whether we have voted Brexit or Remain, there will be a Hen Harrier rally to mark this year’s virtual absence of nesting Hen Harriers from the English uplands. Full details will appear here and elsewhere next Wednesday but we have now been told by the organisers that it will…
What did Shania sing?
The RSPB really is in a pickle over its line on bird of prey persecution. Having welcomed the Hen Harrier inaction plan, welcomed the pathetic statement by the Moorland Association and disappointed many (except the Chief Exec of Songbird Survival) with its line on the Hen Harrier breeding season update, more and more people are…
Lack of vowels shock, warning by wildlife gunners
The GWCT (Gunning wildlife, conserving tadpoles) thrash around in a complete dither these days. They don’t know whether they are coming or going – quite literally. Having said that they would be pleased to field someone for the Bird Fair debate on whether driven grouse shooting should be banned they have now come back to…
Moorland Association rattled – keepers take note!
In their June newsletter, the Moorland Association mention to their members that there have been three damaging incidents for the reputation of grouse shooting in recent weeks. The first they describe as the ‘Hen Harrier Decoy Film’ incident – although at the time Amanda Anderson wasn’t sure what she was looking at, saying ‘From the…
Guest blog – Kick the Butts out of Kinder Scout by Nick Moyes
Nick Moyes is former Senior Keeper of Natural History at Derby Museum; co-author of The Flora of Derbyshire, and technical advisor to the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project, which he helped set up. He is currently campaigning to get The Sanctuary LNR restored by Derby City Council, and advises on biodiversity action plans across Lowland Derbyshire….
100 days – it’s a run chase
We are 100 days away from 20 September when our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting will close. We aren’t half way through our time yet – that is just over a week away – but let’s have a little stock-take. Today we passed the 42,000 signature milestone! That is just fantastic – thank you…
Kite attack!
The Daily Mail is edited by Paul Dacre who owns a grouse moor. Saturday saw a piece about a scourge of Red Kites attacking young girls and old ladies – men seem to be immune. There is a serious issue here and that is that artificial feeding of Red Kites has made them less…