One of the many things that has come out of the Knot work at Formby is the vast amount of data being produced by a small team of dedicated observers which nearly 4,000 observations being made. These are all really valuable and without your help m…
Headline Birds
Friday. There was a frosty outlook and a cold south-easterly and I was ready for a spot of fresh air birding. Once again a hunting Barn Owl stole the morning headlines as it put on a short display over Stalmine Moss. Soon it was gone, back to roos…
Lapwing.
Interesting material for a gap filler on Birdsblog.Lapwing. Bob Bushell Bob Bushells recent post coincided with 65 Lapwing flying purposefully East over Bowerham, Lancaster today, seen as an early movement on 13 December inland from the coast…
Natural England’s Kill List
Following on from Wednesday’s post about the wholesale Killing of Ravens here is another troubling story. This also concerns Natural England. Natural England is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for E…
Scotland Leads The Way
Good morning folks. There is a health warning on the below. It will make you angry. From Rob Sheldon – RDS Conservation 11th December 2018 Rob Sheldon – RDS Conservation 11th December 2018.”Previous information on the subject of licensed Rav…
Comment on Another hen harrier disappears in suspicious circumstances
I think it would be helpful if it was clearer that this post simply repeats the original press release.
Comment on Another hen harrier disappears in suspicious circumstances
Thank you very much for revealing that over 30 Hen Harriers were tagged in the 2018 season. Whilst I personally am not able to make any valid scientific conclusions from the data made available, the number of RSPB tagged birds,and in the absence of dat…
Blog Post: Another hen harrier disappears in suspicious circumstances
Arthur became the ninth tagged hen harrier in three months to vanish in similar circumstances in the UK In November we reported that a rare hen harrier had disappeared in North Yorkshire, triggering an investigation by the police and the RSPB. This was…
Eton Rifles
The Jam’s song on the stereo this morning on the way out was pretty apt – as I opened the car door at Hesketh the sound of guns from the outer marsh put a mass of duck up on the western part of the reserve. Thankfully they whirled around a few times, but then dropped […]
What A Week
Another week goes by. There was more rain and wind with no chance of another ringing session and little in the way of productive birding. But Sunday dawned much better and a promise of sunshine so I set off birding over Stalmine and Rawcliffe Moss…