An update on this short and simple post....

The graceful and bouyant Hen Harrier is one of our most enigmatic raptors and yet it has been brought to the verge of extinction as an English breeding bird by a combination of factors that  most tragically involve a high degree of wanton human persecution.  The links are well documented and the evidence unequivical.

At RSPB Rainham Marshes we see this species as a passage bird, mainly in the early autumn and spring. Occasionally one may even stay a while but the days of a winter roost up on the Silt Lagoons are long gone. 

Will those days ever return? It seems unlikely unless there is a huge shift in attitude of upland England towards the Grey Ghost of our moors and coasts...

Please support National Hen Harrier Day in any way you can....

The various gatherings across the country went incredibly well once again and the support at these events was tremendous both on site and on line. 

Please have a look at the link below to some of the empowering speeches made over the weekend. I think that next year we shall have to try and do something at Rainham.

And if you have a moment have a read of this piece by George Monbiot....

  

Very sadly over the course of last weekend another Hen Harrier -Annie - was found shot....

 

This has to end...

 

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