The same Natural England that is putting more restrictions and costs on Fell Running. As I've said before these quangos need standing up to.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Clough
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The same Natural England that is putting more restrictions and costs on Fell Running. As I've said before these quangos need standing up to.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Clough
Woodpecker tapping out a tune in the morning mist
Driving over to Wildboarclough on Saturday (for Noel's Pennine event) there were dozens of Lapwing displaying up on the moors, then all around Shutlingsloe there were Skylark singing. It really felt like a proper Spring day.
Two dead hares found today on footpaths through fields about a quarter of a mile apart. Both had no obvious marks or injury and eyes open and clear with no sign of the new strain of mixi that is affecting hares down south.
Probably the work of poachers but they usually take the hares with them unless spooked. Very strange.
Another dead hare today with no obvious marks or injuries , again on a footpath,close to the other two found at the weekend.
Horrible
Anything alive down your way to report?
A pair of Lapwings back from their winter seaside holidays.
My three dead hares are on their way to the University of East Anglia for analysis. There is a disease currently ravaging the Hare population in the UK called RHDV2. If you find any dead hares with no apparent injuries then the researchers Jonathon Davis and Diana Bell at UAE would like you to contact them.
My computer skills do not allow me to post their details here but just search https://www.uea.ac.uk/.../uea-resear...to-investigate and you should find them.
I would be really interested to hear what comes of that, I haven't come across the disease but then this is not great hare country so I don't see many (one run over in the village a couple of weeks back). But something to look out for and will check on visible symptoms.
Half a dozen Curlew feeding in a very wet field. The first ones that I have seen around here this year. Their call is one of my favourite sounds and, having disturbed them from their lunch, they did not let me down as they wheeled around and on to the next field.