A bit of a shortcut here for an end of year review of videos taken throughout this year. Videos are usually the result of distant birds and poor light making stills difficult or impossible.
I've uploaded 62 videos to my Flickr site and stuck them in an Album called 2019 Bird Videos.
The link to the Album is below and the link to my Flickr Photostream below that.
2019 Bird Videos, click here to open Album
My Flickr Photostream, click here to open
An interesting article from one of two sisters who own Highland Estates, click here
and this from the Raptor Persecution blog on the reaction of some of those in grouse shooting.
"You don’t have to read very far in to the article to understand Dr Lisbet Rausing’s point of view, nor to realise that she’s widely read and undoubtedly passionate about the environment.
Unfortunately, she has breasts (this makes her a ‘stupid bint’ apparently), she’s a ‘foreigner’ (well, born in Sweden in 1960), and has ‘never done a day’s work in her life’ (er…). These ‘facts’ are, apparently, justification for why Dr Rausing’s opinion isn’t worth listening to, according to various gamekeeper ‘experts’ who’ve been commenting on the article on social media.
No matter that, according to Wikipedia, she has a PhD from Harvard (plus she taught there for eight years), is a senior research fellow at King’s College, holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala University and SOAS, is an elected member of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, an honorary fellow of the British Academy, the Linnean Society, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Biology and the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. No matter that the management team at Corrour Estate is undertaking bold moves to regenerate the land and has impressively transparent conservation and environmental aspirations. No matter that her Arcadia Fund has given over $250 million to help protect nature.
No, she’s got breasts, she wasn’t born in Scotland and she doesn’t like grouse moor management therefore she should be ignored."
