Alledged? What an utter ****.
Alledged? What an utter ****.
It's easy to keep this thread going... https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wo...ideo-released/
Here is another slant on it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-40107214
Don't know how they know why they blame other birds.
Might just get lost.
And from grough https://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/20...d-eagle-losses
The older I get the Faster I was
A link between Grouse shooting and the loss of Raptors! Who'd have thought it.
[QUOTE=molehill;632657]I don't know the area, but if there are sheep and lambs around there I certainly wouldn't rule out a farmer being responsible for any shooting. Kites are not that popular with some sheep farmers around lambing time.[/QUOTE
Don't understand this one? What the hell could a kite do to a lamb, unless it was already dead? They feed mainly on carrion and, despite their large wingspan, weigh only around 1kg and have no real strength!
Mainly carrion, but opportunistic and will take live prey or just about anything. I've watched a kite come down onto a pond and take a fish off the surface and others have reported the same - probably a dead or injured fish but any food will do when hungry.
Regards the lamb, I have met a farmer who watched a kite take a newborn lamb, dropped it in the hedge (too heavy I guess) but that alone did not endear it to the farmer and I'm sure others have seen similar and felt the same.
A quick Google: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index....-lambs.114572/
https://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/20...rrier-vanishes
Still the slaughter continues. Are gamekeepers a law to themselves? Bloody grouse shoots have a lot to answer for, destruction of the moorland by burning and anything that threatens their precious grouse. The argument that Grouse shooting provides valuable employment is spurious. Good wildlife would provide much more. All for arrogant rich bastards to get pleasure from killing things.
Came over Woodhead last weekend and very fierce fires burning the heather, this allows the peat to be eroded and ruins the moor. They spent a fortune thereabouts trying to regenerate the moors, with helicopter seeding.
I am so pissed off to read this! What the hell is wrong with some people. Name and shame those that go to grouse shoots and lets see what happens then. I am in tears after reading that article.Originally Posted by MattPo
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