I know Andy cares very much about our wildlife, that is proven by his dedication. We are probably on parallel tracks aiming for approximately the same outcome but with very different views on how to obtain it and what it should look like.
I'm sure I come from a different country background (hunting, shooting, fishing in a nutshell) and have a vastly different approach to achieving the end result. I look at the problem from a totally different perspective to Andy and yourselves and am highly critical of many statements from the "anti shooting brigade".
And why not, I know that Avery and Packham etc. use anything to further their case, so chucking a "bird flu" spanner in the works is justified IMO. Go ahead and disprove it, which is exactly what shooters are asked to do every time a raptor goes missing without evidence.
I am a strong advocate of mediation and dislike legislation/ acts that ban actions or items, the dangerous dog act to the hunting act are an ineffectual farce.
So we have to agree to disagree on how we achieve our ideals.
