Britain’s best and worst songsters in the same recording. Compare and contrast!

Thanks Steve, hope you get on okay with it. In many ways it was a bit more of a depressing book to write than the Red Kite. A very different story to tell.

Wow! I bet there aren’t many folk out there who could beat that.

Took me one more than you, but up to 115 in a row now, quite a few by scraping through on the last attempt.

Yes indeed. It’s quite a conflict along various parts of the Scottish coast, and elsewhere too. The tension between those seeking quiet enjoyment of the wildlife and those after one for the pot.

Yes, and howls in the vets until the sedation kicked in. Then they managed to cut the shaft of the hook and ease it free.

… is told in the book. As is her finding of a dead Gannet killed by trying to swallow a dogfish. Gannet killed by dogfish or dogfish killed by Gannet depending on your point of view!

Yes, The Hen Harrier’s Year was a follow up to the Red Kite book. Quite a contrast given the respective histories of the two species.
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Thanks Steve. I don’t think Dan does social media. Hopefully he is too busy painting White-tailed Eagles for the third book in the series!

Remember it well. The publisher of Wild Galloway insisted on lower case lunacy throughout. A battle lost. But the war goes on!

Very interesting, thanks. Not heard of this before but certainly no trees nearby so that might well explain it.