Our ninth birthday

This blog turns nine years old today!

We’ve come a long way, as the number of blog views approaches five million, but we’ve barely scratched the surface.

Thank you to everyone who contributes and supports this effort – it is much appreciated.

Kestrel shot in North Yorkshire

A kestrel has been euthanised after being found shot in North Yorkshire.

It’s a kestrel, FFS. You’d have to be a gun-toting psychopath to shoot one of these. Unsurprisingly, it’s not the first kestrel to have been shot in North Yorkshire, England’s raptor-killing capital (see here here and here).

News of this latest shooting appeared on Twitter yesterday. We’ve been unable to find any more details: