Springwatch 2023

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 Found a Paragraph or six from  " METRO " where Iolo says he had a stent fitted in April and that caused him a few problems !

Very Best  Wishes for a Speedy Recovery for one of our very best T.V. Naturalists.

Sadly Iolo has suffered an embolism in the last few days and has had to reluctantly withdraw from this series. I’m sure we all wish him well in his speedy recovery. Great man!

Hopefully the eco warrior will have been arrested by the police following his slow march in London. You may then get a decent programme. As for Iolo he is getting better. 

He was there with the BBC making a programme about peaceful protest.

The day the government or police decide who can or can’t make their voice heard, who can engage in peaceful demonstration or withhold their labour then that will be a very sad day for the UK. Free speech and peaceful protests, including strike actions, are not luxuries, they are the right of all.

Some have no comprehension of the meaning of woke some show their real colours and abuse the term to be derogatory about others. 

We will agree to disagree.

What a fabulously informative series this one is becoming. Showing nature in the raw, no prisoners taken, the jays and those parasitic wasps. The bits about the foxes and the badgers showed new to me facts about these mammals. Keep t coming team springwatch!

Did they tell you they killed a badger by running over it with a  gas guzzling 4 x 4. Thought not.

You said that on the previous page 🙄

Yes, tinny, a ‘story’ resurrected from 2015. Even today the cause of the injuries are a mystery. The Daily Mail were very careful not to attribute absolute blame but in their usual style mentioned names of folk in the vicinity leaving those who wish to jump to conclusions to make the unsubstantiated link. Sadly many badgers are found dead at the roadside, some natural deaths, some roadkill, some possible illegal kills. Sad but unfortunately true. Another good reason to help wherever we can.

No sensible person would handle such an animal. Its, big, heavy and riddled with TB. If you hit it with a car you would have a big repair bill for sure. Add in their destruction of ground nesting birds and they are a big problem. Human control is the only viable option.