Rspb

Daisymay · March 29, 2012

Did anybody here the radio today (national cencus) about an 80% decrease in the starling population,well by all accounts the RSPB are putting this down to intensive farming,can you believe it,when will these clowns own up to what really is happening.

March 29, 2012

So they're still blaming farming? Once it was pesticides, now its intensive farming? WTF :emoticon-0138-thinking:

alec guinness · March 29, 2012

So they're still blaming farming? Once it was pesticides, now its intensive farming? WTF

yes must be the farming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pure pash!!!! the fields around my dads small holding have never changed in 40 years farming. :mad: :mad: :mad:

March 29, 2012

DONT TRUST THE TIN RATTLERS .THEY MAKE STORIES AND TELL LIES. :smiley:

JADE · March 29, 2012

I heard the story as well. They are going to have an investigation into what has caused the decline. Talk about not seeing the wood for the trees!!!

KEVIN ELLIOTT · March 29, 2012

THAY SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT MY PLACE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

THIS THING CAME OUT OF THE SKY LIKE A BAT OUT OF HELL

RIGHT INTO THE TREE,S NEXT TO MY LOFT AND GOT A SMALL

BIRD SPAROW I THINK WELL MY BIRDS WERE OFF FOR ABOUT

30 MIN BEFORE THAY CAME BACK

ONLY 3 WEEKS A GO WE HADE A YEARLING HEN KILLED BEHIND

THE WIFES LOFT SO THERE IS PLENTY OF THESE BOP ABOUT

THE CROWS WERE GOING DAFT THIS LET ME KNOW THAT SOMETHING

WAS GOING ABOUT THEN THIS BOP CAME AND GOT A BIRD OUT OF THE TREES

March 30, 2012

The mountains around here have not changed for thousands of years and had a wide range of wild birds living on them. Woodcock, grouse, lapwings skylarks and many many more. These days you would be pushed to see any of these birds because they have either been eaten or driven off. About the only bird that seems to cope are the little brown meadow pipits.

A friend of mine has a smallholding on the mountain right next to a conifer stand and he has a major problem. Goshawks attack the poultry all the time and the Sparrow Hawk is always after the pigeons. If that is not bad enough there are always peregrines waiting to get at any bird that is flying above the range of the other lot. I have heard recently that the RSPB idiots are planning on releasing red grouse on the moorland areas. That will be a laugh because the way things are they will not last ten minutes.

The local Fanciers are having a real hidding right now from the Sparrowhawks. They are attacking the birds in the air and everybody is being hit. The bit that none of us can not understand is why this sudden change in the habits of the Sparrow Hawks. I have only seen hen Sparrow Hawks up to now but they seem to be a lot bigger that they were in previous years. One of the guys reckons that this is because of the release programme where birds are hand reared from foreign stock. All I know for sure is that no-one can safely let their pigeons out at the moment because of this menace. The RSPB know full well what is happening because they have set up cameras to keep an eye on the Falcons nests that are on the rock ledges. The oddest thing I find is that there are colony of feral pigeons near here and they seem to get away with it because you can see them gliding and flying all the time without being hit, and it is the same with a guy that has been banned from the sport and who leaves his birds out all day every day. They seem to be fine as well.