Monthly Archives: February 2020

Dupplin Estate, to the west of Perth and where I based myself for a year to write Walking with Wildlife: a year on a Scottish estate, used to have rabbits aplenty. When I first became acquaint with the estate in … Continue reading →

I wrote of this incident in my blog of 7th February. I now see from the latest Raptor Persecution UK blog that Derbyshire Police maintain that: ‘There are too many unknown variables to conclusively say that the buzzard has been … Continue reading →

During my year-long walk over Dupplin Estate west of Perth for the purposes of writing my recent book Walking with Wildlife: a year on a Scottish estate, I was pleased to see the number of brown hares that were present. … Continue reading →

During this wet and windy Storm Ciara weather I’ve had time to have a look at the changes made to GL 01, GL 02 and GL 03 by Scottish Natural Heritage. Looking at GL 01 – the licence to kill … Continue reading →

I read on the Raptor Persecution UK blog this morning of a buzzard found poisoned in the Peak District National Park. The buzzard had apparently been found, in April 2019, by two walkers in woodland near Tintwistle, just north of … Continue reading →