The Common Buzzard by Sean Walls & Robert Kenwood
Poyser Hardback - £60.00 and paperback - £35.00 304 pages It is like buses coming along. Tubbs Buzzard came out in 1974 and after a long...
Safaris in a National Park
THIS Article was written in 2013 for BIRDWATCHING magazine When most people hear the word ‘safaris’ they think of exotic parts of the...
History of Forest of Bowland raptors
The Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty was started in 1964 when the Hen Harrier was a common bird nesting in the area. So much so that...
The Curlew
A recent document written by the BTO suggests that Curlew is in step decline from its main habitat – uplands! http://www.tandfonline.com/...
The end of Langholm part 2. Will there ever be a part 3?
The end of August sees the end of a 10 year programme to make Langholm moor a biodiverse area along with Red Grouse shooting. Red Grouse...
Farming and Birds by Ian Newton
Published by New Naturalist William Collins Hard and Soft Back 628 pages Price £65.00 and £35.00 Yet another amazing book by Ian who has...
Rare Pallid Harriers and more problems with the establishment
Some of you may have gone to see the male Pallid Harrier in Bowland this spring but now it has been confirmed that there was a second one...
The Short eared Owl in Britain
Short eared Owls are the most persecuted of the owls in Britain for breeding on mainly upland areas of Britain especially where they come...
Late heather burning killing the birds!
Many of you will remember that we had such a dry spring with amazing lack of rain from march through to April. Well it looks like many...
Red Kites drawn to the guns.
The RSPB have issued a history of persecution of Red Kites in Yorkshire - https://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/investigations/arch...