Try it, you may end up in jail though.Originally Posted by molehill
Try it, you may end up in jail though.
I could do with one of these crow traps. My tortoise has just spent a few days at the vets having been given a really bad pecking by a crow. Lost a lot of blood and the vet wasn't sure he was going to survive. Came back with stitches to one of its legs. Its not the first time the crow has had a go at him, and we think a fox also had a go at him a few years back. Looks like he'll be caged up a bit now rather than just roaming the garden.
Sorry to hear that Dominion, we have to keep netting of some sort over our tortoise pen as the buzzard sits on the fence eyeing them up, goshawk about as well. Worry about the buzzard managing to pick one off the ground and drop it outside the the pen (only a low fence round them) and then it's away and gone.
Or eaten.
Sound of woodpecker drilling, audible from my bedroom window. Been living here 9 years, but it's the first time I have heard that here. Can't see it in the birch tree in the back garden, but there are several other trees within earshot.
Field lizard's, over 20 Mountain Hares, Lap wings, curlew,s Plovers, pippets..Buzzard and on the way out to meet my clients a bird I see quite often but rarely hear any one talk about ...a jay...a very pretty bird.
gold finches too, I've seen a lot this year.
Ran round Barden Moor on Saturday morning, up past the reservoirs and round to cross, memorial and down past the shooting hut. The birds were superb, Curlew, oystercatchers, Lapwings, Snipe doing that weird rodding thing and so many more. Shame to keep running and not stop, look and listen. Lots of millipedes around and young grouse. Didn't see any raptors - perhaps they are all hiding from Guns, pole traps and vicious nasty idiots
Saturday's bike ride was to Barton-in-Fabis, and down to the Trent at Barton Ferry (where there is no ferry). Beautiful, peaceful scene down by the river, apart from a tremendous racket from the other side. Over there are some flooded gravel pits, which now constitute Attenborough Nature Reserve. From the cacophony of honking, quacking, etc, emanating from there, they have been very successful in attracting the birds.
Those species do well on keepered moors due to intensive (legal) predator control; the moorland managers will often use that fact in order to justify their work.
Unfortunately some raptor species don't do well on keepered moors due to illegal persecution; never a mention of this type of activity by the moorland managers.
All the raptors are down in my neck of the woods! The range of the Red Kite grows inexorably and they are now becoming a common sight in the lower Wye valley...although I've yet to see one over my house. There was a veritable blizzard of buzzards over the A40 at Raglan on Sunday plus another high hovering hawk (probably sparrowhawk) that I got a glimpse of as I scooted along for a run up Pen Cerrig Clach on a glorious day.
Red kites are all over town and villages now. I recently watched one dive down in the middle of Llandovery and pick up a scrap off the pavement, scavenging in towns as they used to do in olden times.
I'm hoping they may start snitching cats out of back gardens soon.
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