August

We respond to a recent piece in The Telegraph on mountain hare declines.

Meeting at a nature reserve beside the Thames Estuary may sound a strange place to discuss our uplands but there is a link – both have peat underneath and at one time had trees on top.

It is bizarre that the RSPB should now suggest (Feathers fly over who to thank for saving hen harrier, Aug 6) that these successes have been achieved through nest protection alone.