Rob Stubbs
@robstubbs1.bsky.social
Retired research scientist, wildlife enthusiast and keen amateur photographer - living in Aberfeldy, Scotland.
Disappointing delay by Derbyshire constabulary - one wonders why they waited 3 months before appealing for information ? 🤔
Derbyshire Constabulary appeals for information 3 months later.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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Peregrine found with shotgun injuries in Peak District National Park
Derbyshire Police Rural Crime Team posted the following on Facebook on 3 December 2025: WILDLIFE CRIME AWARENESS – INJURED PEREGRINE Between 01/09/25 – 08/09/25, we received a report from the…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Disappointing delay by Derbyshire constabulary - one wonders why they waited 3 months before appealing for information ? 🤔
Let’s see if our government can demonstrate care for nature better than Westminster 🤔.
We need action to ensure the survival of Swfits!
Swifts are incredible birds that migrate from Africa every year, but they are in serious decline and a major reason is because their nesting sites on buildings are under threat.
Tell the Government to Save Our Swifts⬇️
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Swifts are incredible birds that migrate from Africa every year, but they are in serious decline and a major reason is because their nesting sites on buildings are under threat.
Tell the Government to Save Our Swifts⬇️
greens.scot/saveourswifts
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Let’s see if our government can demonstrate care for nature better than Westminster 🤔.
Good to hear this nonsensical project has been returned to junk bin from which it never should have been taken from in the first place 😡
More detail on Natural England's decision to close its Hen Harrier Southern Reintroduction Project (& a discussion on how much public funding has been wasted on this pointless project).
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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More detail on Natural England’s decision to close Hen Harrier Southern Reintroduction Project
Back in September, Natural England announced its decision to end its controversial plan to ‘reintroduce’ Hen Harriers to southern England (see here). The decision was widely welcomed by…
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December 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Good to hear this nonsensical project has been returned to junk bin from which it never should have been taken from in the first place 😡
Looks like some of those Dorset MPs are looking in the wrong direction whilst at the same time bleating about reintroduced, native species…🙄
Appalling, illegal, unethical, disgusting. Oh, and in the midst of a severe outbreak of Avian Influenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 where free-range poultry are in mandatory lockdown to prevent viral spread.
#Ornithology #UKBirding
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#Ornithology #UKBirding
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Shot Pheasants found dumped in Dorset
Another week and another pile of shot and dumped gamebirds. Thanks to the blog reader who sent in this photo of a pile of dead, shot Pheasants he found yesterday, dumped on the road (B3081) running…
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November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Looks like some of those Dorset MPs are looking in the wrong direction whilst at the same time bleating about reintroduced, native species…🙄
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📢 We need to hear YOUR thoughts!
The public consultation on reintroducing white-tailed eagles to #Cumbria is open. 🦅
Share your views by responding to our online questionnaire by October 31st HERE ⬇️
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CWTEquestionnaire/
Please share this post as widely as possible! 💚
The public consultation on reintroducing white-tailed eagles to #Cumbria is open. 🦅
Share your views by responding to our online questionnaire by October 31st HERE ⬇️
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CWTEquestionnaire/
Please share this post as widely as possible! 💚
October 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
📢 We need to hear YOUR thoughts!
The public consultation on reintroducing white-tailed eagles to #Cumbria is open. 🦅
Share your views by responding to our online questionnaire by October 31st HERE ⬇️
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CWTEquestionnaire/
Please share this post as widely as possible! 💚
The public consultation on reintroducing white-tailed eagles to #Cumbria is open. 🦅
Share your views by responding to our online questionnaire by October 31st HERE ⬇️
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CWTEquestionnaire/
Please share this post as widely as possible! 💚
Shocking inaction again
Scottish Government delays start of muirburn licences for the second time after aggressive lobbying by grouse shooting industry.
Climate emergency, anyone?
Seems Scot Gov more interested in appeasing the lairds than protecting the environment.
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Climate emergency, anyone?
Seems Scot Gov more interested in appeasing the lairds than protecting the environment.
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Scottish Government delays start of muirburn licences (for the second time) after aggressive lobbying by grouse shooting industry
The Scottish Government has, for the second time, delayed the implementation of muirburn licensing after caving in to pressure from aggressive lobbying by the grouse shooting industry. A quick re-c…
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October 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Shocking inaction again
Shockingly poor performance and lack of even snail paced movement never mind any sense of urgency 😡
17 months! What's the hold up? Why isn't this decision-making process a priority for NatureScot?
The consequences of this inaction were made v clear yesterday, with the suspicious disappearance of two more Golden Eagles in south Scotland.
#RaptorResearch
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The consequences of this inaction were made v clear yesterday, with the suspicious disappearance of two more Golden Eagles in south Scotland.
#RaptorResearch
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17 months (& waiting) for NatureScot to make decision on General Licence restriction relating to ‘shooting & killing’ of sleeping Golden Eagle called Merrick
The Scottish Government’s nature advisory agency, NatureScot, has been now been procrastinating for 17 months on whether to impose a sanction on an estate in relation to the ‘shooting and killing’ …
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October 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Shockingly poor performance and lack of even snail paced movement never mind any sense of urgency 😡
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More info on why the court judged the RSPB's covert video evidence to be admissible in this important case ⚖️
NB: Comments turned off as legal proceedings are live.
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime
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NB: Comments turned off as legal proceedings are live.
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime
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More detail on court ruling accepting admissibility of RSPB’s covert surveillance in prosecution of gamekeeper accused of conspiracy to kill a Hen Harrier
Earlier this month a judge ruled that covert video surveillance obtained by the RSPB is admissible evidence in the prosecution of gamekeeper Racster Dingwall, who has been charged in relation to th…
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September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
More info on why the court judged the RSPB's covert video evidence to be admissible in this important case ⚖️
NB: Comments turned off as legal proceedings are live.
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime
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NB: Comments turned off as legal proceedings are live.
#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime
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Just crazy, everywhere, especially so in a bird flu crisis 🤷♂️😡
@rspbcymru.bsky.social calls on Ministers to act on advice received from NRW 2 years ago (!) for proper controls & oversight of gamebird releases. They don't even know how many are released, other than 'millions'.
Find out how you can help 🔽
#BirdingWales
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Find out how you can help 🔽
#BirdingWales
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Welsh Government under fire for failing to implement gamebird regulations amidst heightened risk of bird flu
The RSPB has, justifiably, grown tired of waiting for the Welsh Government to implement regulations on the release of millions of non-native gamebirds (Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges) and want…
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September 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Just crazy, everywhere, especially so in a bird flu crisis 🤷♂️😡
Totally on point.
Totally this. Reform is basically Truss but less competent and with added racism. Very beatable.
Why assume that fighting simply means vesting our hopes in another political party? Fighting means turning a blowtorch of scrutiny onto Reform’s every move, from council-level to their deeply unpopular policies: pro-fracking, pro-Trump, anti-renewables, privatise the NHS. We can *ALL* campaign here
September 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Totally on point.
Chief vet appeasing the shooting community with support for a bonkers solution to avian influenza risk 🤷♂️. Sounds almost like a Trump appointee 🤪
UK Government's Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Christine Middlemiss claims: "Strong biosecurity is our best defence".
It isn't. Not releasing 60 million gamebirds is.
#AvianFlu #Ornithology
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It isn't. Not releasing 60 million gamebirds is.
#AvianFlu #Ornithology
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Defra announces additional biosecurity measures for gamebird releases amidst heightened risk of Avian Influenza
Defra has announced increased biosecurity measures for gamebird releases amidst the heightened risk of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as ‘Bird Flu’. All of England…
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August 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Chief vet appeasing the shooting community with support for a bonkers solution to avian influenza risk 🤷♂️. Sounds almost like a Trump appointee 🤪
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It's the Inglorious 12th. The start of the Red Grouse shooting season.
Grouse shooting: an expensive niche hobby of shooting birds for fun, based on environmentally damaging burning of our uplands and underpinned by crime against wildlife.
Shame!
Grouse shooting: an expensive niche hobby of shooting birds for fun, based on environmentally damaging burning of our uplands and underpinned by crime against wildlife.
Shame!
August 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
It's the Inglorious 12th. The start of the Red Grouse shooting season.
Grouse shooting: an expensive niche hobby of shooting birds for fun, based on environmentally damaging burning of our uplands and underpinned by crime against wildlife.
Shame!
Grouse shooting: an expensive niche hobby of shooting birds for fun, based on environmentally damaging burning of our uplands and underpinned by crime against wildlife.
Shame!
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Rod Liddle is no fan of grouse shooting, and especially dislikes the associated illegal killing of birds of prey.
This Saturday (9th Aug) his Times Radio show will feature discussions with conservationists & a confrontation with the Moorland Association.
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This Saturday (9th Aug) his Times Radio show will feature discussions with conservationists & a confrontation with the Moorland Association.
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Rod Liddle to confront the Moorland Association on Times Radio this Saturday (9 Aug 2025)
Journalist, broadcaster and Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle will be hosting a 20 minute piece on grouse shooting during his Saturday morning show on Times Radio, from 12.05hrs. Rod Liddle is no s…
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August 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Rod Liddle is no fan of grouse shooting, and especially dislikes the associated illegal killing of birds of prey.
This Saturday (9th Aug) his Times Radio show will feature discussions with conservationists & a confrontation with the Moorland Association.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/06/r...
This Saturday (9th Aug) his Times Radio show will feature discussions with conservationists & a confrontation with the Moorland Association.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/06/r...
Is this a tawny speckled pug ? Highland Perthshire @mothiduk.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Is this a tawny speckled pug ? Highland Perthshire @mothiduk.bsky.social
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REVIVE - the coalition for grouse moor reform, has joined Bluesky!
Please give them a follow: @revivecoalition.bsky.social
Please give them a follow: @revivecoalition.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
REVIVE - the coalition for grouse moor reform, has joined Bluesky!
Please give them a follow: @revivecoalition.bsky.social
Please give them a follow: @revivecoalition.bsky.social
Well what a surprise 🙄 ….
Oh! His support for driven grouse shooting during Monday's debate now makes a lot more sense!
FYI, @oliviablakemp.bsky.social
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FYI, @oliviablakemp.bsky.social
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Pro-grouse shooting Labour MP Sam Rushworth received £10,000 donation from local grouse moor gamekeeper group
Perhaps the most surprising pro-grouse shooting voice at Monday’s Westminster Hall debate on driven grouse shooting was Sam Rushworth MP, the Labour MP for Bishop Auckland. Wild Justice descr…
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July 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Well what a surprise 🙄 ….
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🔴 102 Hen Harriers.
🔫 0 convictions.
🟤 Grouse moors. Gamekeepers. Silence from Westminster.
How many more must die?
#HenHarrier #RaptorPersecution #GrouseShooting #WildlifeCrime
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🔫 0 convictions.
🟤 Grouse moors. Gamekeepers. Silence from Westminster.
How many more must die?
#HenHarrier #RaptorPersecution #GrouseShooting #WildlifeCrime
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/H...
June 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
🔴 102 Hen Harriers.
🔫 0 convictions.
🟤 Grouse moors. Gamekeepers. Silence from Westminster.
How many more must die?
#HenHarrier #RaptorPersecution #GrouseShooting #WildlifeCrime
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🔫 0 convictions.
🟤 Grouse moors. Gamekeepers. Silence from Westminster.
How many more must die?
#HenHarrier #RaptorPersecution #GrouseShooting #WildlifeCrime
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And a couple of beetles I'm struggling to ID, also from Highland Perthshire - one I think is one of the click beetles - poor, windy pictures @sjbknott.bsky.social @ashwhiffin.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
And a couple of beetles I'm struggling to ID, also from Highland Perthshire - one I think is one of the click beetles - poor, windy pictures @sjbknott.bsky.social @ashwhiffin.bsky.social
Can anyone help with the id of this scorpion fly, I think it’s Panorpa germanica - seen in highland Perthshire @sjbknott.bsky.social @ashwhiffin.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Can anyone help with the id of this scorpion fly, I think it’s Panorpa germanica - seen in highland Perthshire @sjbknott.bsky.social @ashwhiffin.bsky.social
Vanishing hen harriers, near a grouse moor, who ever would have expected that….😡
An all-too-familiar pattern. They're provided safe haven at Geltsdale, but as soon as they cross the boundary to hunt...
Again and again and again and again.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #UKBirding
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Again and again and again and again.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #UKBirding
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Two Hen Harriers vanish from RSPB’s Geltsdale Reserve, suspected illegally killed on surrounding grouse moors
Press release from RSPB (20 May 2025) Vanishing Hen Harriers Point To Yet More Illegal Killing Two male Hen Harriers have suddenly disappeared from the RSPB Geltsdale Nature Reserve in Cumbria. It …
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May 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Vanishing hen harriers, near a grouse moor, who ever would have expected that….😡
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But it's not over yet!
Now we need as many people as possible to write to the Scottish Government and tell them to change this decision.
Add your voice 👇
Now we need as many people as possible to write to the Scottish Government and tell them to change this decision.
Add your voice 👇
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW
Save Loch Lomond - TAKE ACTION NOW -
greens.scot
May 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
But it's not over yet!
Now we need as many people as possible to write to the Scottish Government and tell them to change this decision.
Add your voice 👇
Now we need as many people as possible to write to the Scottish Government and tell them to change this decision.
Add your voice 👇
Another sign of an incompetent government 🤷♂️😡
NEWS: We're taking legal action against the Government's Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
We've written a letter to Angela Rayner, asking her to correct a statement she made about the bill.
Read the full story in the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We've written a letter to Angela Rayner, asking her to correct a statement she made about the bill.
Read the full story in the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
May 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Another sign of an incompetent government 🤷♂️😡
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#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..
May 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..
What is it with this vile hatred of raptors amongst some landowners and their keepers ? Shocking, continued abuse from people living in the last century 😡.
Red Kites found shot at one end of the country (Aberdeenshire), Red Kites found poisoned at the other end (Dumfries & Galloway).
Welcome to Scotland. And yes, it's just as bad in England, Wales & N Ireland.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #UKBirding
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Welcome to Scotland. And yes, it's just as bad in England, Wales & N Ireland.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #UKBirding
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Police Scotland appeal for information after two Red Kites found poisoned in Castle Douglas
Press release from Police Scotland (2 May 2025) APPEAL FOR INFORMATION AFTER TWO BIRDS OF PREY POISONED IN CASTLE DOUGLAS, DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY Officers are appealing for information after two b…
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May 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
What is it with this vile hatred of raptors amongst some landowners and their keepers ? Shocking, continued abuse from people living in the last century 😡.
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Looking forward to seeing UK Government's consultation on banning so-called 'trail hunting', a smokescreen for illegal fox hunting.
This depraved, obscene 'tradition' needs to go.
#TimeForChange #WildlifeCrime
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This depraved, obscene 'tradition' needs to go.
#TimeForChange #WildlifeCrime
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New figures show the scale of fox hunting and the havoc being inflicted on rural communities
A new set of figures showing the scale of suspected illegal fox hunting and the havoc being inflicted on rural communities by fox hunts has been released today by national animal welfare charity the L...
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April 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Looking forward to seeing UK Government's consultation on banning so-called 'trail hunting', a smokescreen for illegal fox hunting.
This depraved, obscene 'tradition' needs to go.
#TimeForChange #WildlifeCrime
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This depraved, obscene 'tradition' needs to go.
#TimeForChange #WildlifeCrime
www.league.org.uk/news-and-res...