On Friday the following comment was submitted to my post on Access Rights and Grouse Moors (see here) “Without mammalian (mustelid and rodent) control there would be no ground nesting birds of any kind, grouse or otherwise.” Comment: This is plainly wrong. Ground nesting birds evolved along with mustelids and rodents long before any predator…
Category: Parkswatchscotland
I am starting the Pyrenean High Level Route today, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, and then hope to go on to the Alps so I won’t be blogging about Scotland’s National Parks for six weeks or so. I may send some postcards from abroad, as there are always things to learn from elsewhere, but…
It’s been a difficult month for parkswatchscotland. I intended to have a bit of break when ski touring in the Dolomites (see here) but following that was responsible for looking after a child for two and a half week during which time our household all got Covid. That left me knackered and blogging was the…
I am taking a bit of a break from campaigning on National Parks in order to finish writing a book I completed a draft four years ago but, since setting up parkswatchscotland, have hardly progressed that further. At New Year I realised that to do so I would need to devote a lot less…
The implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation and Parkswatch and the LLTNPA Anyone is who a member of an organisation or who subscribes to blogs is likely to have been bombarded recently with communications about the new General Data Protection Regulation which came into force last week. Parkswatchscotland is a blog, not an organisation, …