Mountain Hare Campaign and SnareWatch

Indulge me, I'm posting the link below to a OneKind petition which it's hoped will bring an end to what appears to be the wholesale slaughter of Mountain Hares. I used to see these gentle, charismatic animals often in the hills when I was young and still mountain biking, now they've become a rarity in some of our eastern glens.

The SnareWatch site is new to me so I've added both their Facebook and web site where you can report seeing a snare. Over the years I've seen many animals from rabbits to roe deer dead in unattended snares and its not a pretty sight. My local MSP Graeme Dey, the Minister for Parliamentary Business and Veterans, thinks snares are a necessary tool in land management, his answer when I wrote him. Note, properly set and supervised snares are legal at this time, just a bit barbaric!


Mountain Hare Petition to Roseanna Cunningham, Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform

SnareWatch Facebook Site

SnareWatch - report a snare


The previously seen and reported Iceland Gull couldn't be found today and during my wait as the tide receded I noticed the sign below at Victoria Park and thought we need another at Inchcape Park where some camper vans are encamped every night for most of the summer. The gull may just have been close by and I'll keep looking.

I hope this refers to a single rule to follow, and not that the management are in some way omnipotent, all knowing and who must be obeyed

No Iceland Gull so here's a Great Black-backed (the beast)