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RSPB press release – Number of Hen Harriers killed or missing reaches new high

Mark June 26, 2025March 28, 2026 Comments Off

Over the past five years, record numbers of Hen Harriers have been killed or have gone missing according to a new report from the RSPB. Most of these incidents have occurred on or near grouse moors in northern England. The RSPB is calling on the Westminster Government to introduce licensing of grouse shooting in…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 21 by Nick MacKinnon

Mark June 4, 2025March 31, 2026 2 Comments

Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…

Guest blog – Midhope track, a final resolution by Bob Berzins

Mark May 24, 2025March 31, 2026 4 Comments

Bob Berzins is a campaigner and activist. His previous guests blogs here all focus on the management, or mismanagement, of upland areas such as the Peak District, Walshaw Moor and the North York Moors. See also his novels Snared and The Last Crow. Of all the environmental damage found on grouse shooting moors, road building…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 33 by John Page and Nick MacKinnon

Mark May 22, 2025March 31, 2026 2 Comments

John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “ ’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field.” He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a big wide world beyond…

Guest blog – Shrine to a Reluctant Hero (Part 1) by Conor Mark Jameson

Mark May 19, 2025March 28, 2026 7 Comments

Conor Mark Jameson worked in conservation all of his career and now lives and writes in west Norfolk. He is also the author of Silent Spring Revisited (reviewed here), Looking for the Goshawk (reviewed here), and Shrewdunnit (a collection of his feature articles, (reviewed here)). Conor’s biography Finding W. H. Hudson – The Writer…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 42 Calderdale Energy Park by Nick MacKinnon

Mark May 8, 2025March 31, 2026 4 Comments

RSPB press release – Oldest Oystercatchers

Mark April 24, 2025March 28, 2026 Comments Off

UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers discovered on England’s East Coast Wetlands Two record-breaking Oystercatchers have been found on England’s East Coast Wetlands, setting new records as the oldest of their kind in the UK. A new national record of 41 years and 8 months was beaten within weeks by a second bird confirmed as 43…

RSPB press release – White-faced Darter reintroduction

Mark April 22, 2025March 28, 2026 1 Comment

Rare dragonfly introduced into a hidden corner of Cumbria The introduction of the rare White-faced Darter dragonfly begins this week, at RSPB Campfield Marsh in Cumbria. The species has declined significantly in England due to habitat loss and other factors and is now found in only a few locations. The introduction involves translocating larvae from…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 13 by Nick MacKinnon

Mark April 11, 2025March 31, 2026 2 Comments

Guest blog – HS2’s Badly Behaved Little Brother by Euan Dunn

Mark April 2, 2025March 28, 2026 5 Comments

Dr Euan Dunn MBE is an ecologist who lives in Great Eversden near Cambridge. For 25 years he led on developing marine conservation policy for the RSPB and was awarded the Society’s medal in 2024. Not long after retirement he turned his attention from sea to land to assist Cambridge Approaches – click here –…