Jun 25, 2008
Sometimes in life we all want to drown a bird we dearly love due to her incessant nagging, yet we don’t due to the threat of jail or worse, no ironing, sex and back to microwave meals. (I’ll soon find out if my wife reads my posts) However this wild sparrowhawks demonstrates (not the one in the picture that could only just bath itself) that darwin’s theory of the fittest and the wisest is still alive and strong…..Which is more than I can say for this magpie after….. Watch the video here, you’ll not be disappointed.
Jun 13, 2008
Seems it’s not just Gyr’s and our beloved birds crooking it from this nasty fungus…
A gardener died after inhaling a killer fungus from home-made compost.
The 47-year-old went to hospital with chest pains just a day after opening a bag of rotting leaves.
The unnamed welder died three days later from aspergillosis - caused by inhaling spores of the aspergillis fungus.
Dr David Waghorn, who treated the man last May at Wycombe Hospital, Bucks, warned in The Lancet medical journal that in rare cases compost “may be considered an occupational hazard for gardeners”.
Apr 21, 2008
The two men charged in connection with the October 5 massacre of 52 Red-footed Falcons Falco vespertinus in the Phasouri area of Cypus, have recieved a small fine after being found guilty of shooting only four falcons. The shocking massacre of the migrating falcons – the worst incident of bird of prey killing ever reported in Cyprus – made headlines across Europe. The shot falcons – a species of global conservation concern – appear to have been hit for target practice. [Read more]
Apr 8, 2008
The Rochester Democrate and Chronicle newspaper report that an American couple have been married with a Bald eagle as the best man and a red tail hawk, as the maid of honor. [Read more]
Apr 8, 2008
On the 2nd April Richard Pearson, was found guilty to amassing a huge collection of wild birds eggs in the biggest case of its kind in the UK for 20 years.
The court heard how police and RSPB officers raided Pearson’s Cleethorpe’s home in November 2006 and found a huge number of birds of prey and other rare birds eggs.
Inside they found his collection of more than 7,000 wild birds eggs, including those of some of the UK’s rarest nesting species such as golden eagle, little tern, osprey, black-necked grebe, avocet, black-tailed godwit, stone-curlew, chough, peregrine and red-throated diver.
Officers also found 59 dead birds in a freezer in his garage and dozens of diaries detailing where and when he had found the eggs.
They seized equipment such as a rubber dinghy, waders, climbing spikes, syringes, cameras and sat-nav systems, all used to amass such a huge collection over a 20-year period. Pearson, 41, was sentenced to 23 weeks in prison.
