Since coming back from Israel I’ve been getting in some local birding: at Stanwick Lakes, at Rainham Marshes, at Titchwell, at Weeting Heath and at Lakenheath Fen. Migration is not advanced at these places as it is (was) at Eilat but I have notched up a few UK spring migrants, namely Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler,…
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Champions of the Flyway 2016 – blog 3
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Day 3 – Sunday 27 March I’ve long wanted to visit Eilat in migration time and here I am! Eilat is a holiday resort on the Red Sea – most people are here to relax and soak up the sun. A couple of hundred of us are here to take part in a Bird Race. …
Champions of the Flyway 2016 – blog 2
Day 2 – Saturday 26 March Wake up early and realise I am in Israel: Wednesday, home; Thursday, Devon; Friday, Luton; Saturday, Tel-Aviv. Tomorrow I’ll wake up in Eilat, one of the migration hotspots of the world where birds pour through from African wintering grounds to Europe and Asia. Can’t wait! Today we start fairly…
Champions of the Flyway 2016 – blog 1
Although it’s all over (all over bar the fundraising actually!), over the next few days I will be blogging ‘as-live’ on the Champions of the Flyway event I attended in Eilat Israel. ‘As live’ means I will write about each day as though it has just happened and without telling you anything about the events…
Arctic Redpolls soar over the Negev
That was a birthday to remember yesterday. Up at 0130, out at 0205, and birding until after dark at 1940 or so. And we saw…well I’ll tell you more about this trip to Israel over the next few days. Thank you to everyone who donated to the cause of helping the Hellenic Ornithological Society combat…
This sounds very bad
Hen Harrier “Lad” found dead on Speyside – read the full RSPB account Slight doubt about whether it was shot or not? Estate not named – quite rightly. see also blog by Raptorpersecutionscotland
6000 signatures
I’m just blown away by the speed at which people are signing the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – thank you to all who have signed. Yesterday, we passed 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000 signatures and as we pass the 48 hours mark the total now stands at 6689 – that’s two-thirds of the…
What a great start – thank you!
When I woke this morning I knew there was something I had to do – check on the number of signatures on the e-petition I launched yesterday. It was around 1pm yesterday that I noticed that the e-petition had gone live – I wasn’t expecting it to happen at the weekend. By the time I…
Balmoral challenged over Mountain Hare cull
As a follow-up to last weekend’s story about Mountain Hare culls in the Cairngorms National Park (you may have read it here first) Rob Edwards writes in today’s Glasgow Herald of the role of the Queen’s highland estate. Mass culls of Mountain Hares have, it seems, been undertaken at Delnadamph – part of the Balmoral…
Guest blog – Two years on by Andrea Goddard
Andrea Goddard co-founded Let’s Get MAD for Wildlife in April 2014 and is a passionate wildlife enthusiast who has volunteered for the RSPB for five years in various capacities, but mainly at Tollie red kites. She is studying Environmental Science for a BSc (Hons) at Inverness University of the Highlands and Islands. 2nd Year Anniversary of…