Raptor Persecution (1 Viewer)

[Stewart J]

Well written and researched letter to the Scottish Cabinet Secretary on a subject close to my heart and a cause I am involved in with a passion here in the North of England uplands.


https://raptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/dear-cabinet-secretary/#comment-174243

 

[DBK]

I'm a few years out of date but I seem to recall goshawks were doing well around Kielder but couldn't establish themselves beyond the park. The inference was they were simply shot if they strayed too far near the grouse moors.

 

[Stewart J]

I'm a few years out of date but I seem to recall goshawks were doing well around Kielder but couldn't establish themselves beyond the park. The inference was they were simply shot if they strayed too far near the grouse moors.

You are quite correct, if it has a hooky beak its "removed" even owls and Kestrels in my area

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[CazPaul]

We live high up on the north pennine moors. An idyllic place, hen harriers are beautiful birds, seen a few of them around here.

What more can you ask for, lapwing chicks walking through the side gate, black grouse flying overhead, snipe drumming, curlews, redshank, oystercatchers, golden plovers, stonechats, short eared owl plus loads more

I have to pinch myself each day to make sure I am not dreaming. Its a birdwatchers paradise.

I am all for conservation so I hope the lobbying pays off.

 

[Stewart J]

We live high up on the north pennine moors. An idyllic place, hen harriers are beautiful birds, seen a few of them around here.

What more can you ask for, lapwing chicks walking through the side gate, black grouse flying overhead, snipe drumming, curlews, redshank, oystercatchers, golden plovers, stonechats, short eared owl plus loads more

I have to pinch myself each day to make sure I am not dreaming. Its a birdwatchers paradise.

I am all for conservation so I hope the lobbying pays off.

My favourite time of the year here in the Northern Pennines Paul, the cacophony of sound from displaying waders is one of natures wonders and has to be experienced to be appreciated. A Black Grouse lek is another, I help with counts and monitor them, Hen Harriers are almost extinct up here to many grouse moors I do a lot of volunteer work over the winter months and the decline in numbers over the 12 or more years I have been involved is very noticeable.

 

[ambulancekidd]

We too live in a beautiful area, right on the edge of The Galloway Forest park. We have lots of buzzards, red kites & a pair of nesting ospreys. The ospreys have a permanent camera which can be viewed from The Round House at loch Doon (Google it if you wish) & we understand how endangered these magnificent raptors really are. I am aware of the danger to these birds from humans & it makes me ashamed to be a human.

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[CazPaul]

My favourite time of the year here in the Northern Pennines Paul, the cacophony of sound from displaying waders is one of natures wonders and has to be experienced to be appreciated. A Black Grouse lek is another, I help with counts and monitor them, Hen Harriers are almost extinct up here to many grouse moors I do a lot of volunteer work over the winter months and the decline in numbers over the 12 or more years I have been involved is very noticeable.

Yes its lovely Stewart.
We had a couple of people around here last year monitoring hen harriers from a raptor group as they said it was a roosting place for them. I chatted regularly to one guy who was renting a nearby cottage.
We also had a guy from the RSPB round monitoring birds, mammals etc, he even had to mark my 2 dogs down as predators.
The black grouse are great to watch, we have even had them in the garden when there has been bad snow, what more could you possibly ask for.

 

[Silver-Fox]

What's this the smug corner of MoHo fun where I live






Only joking you people seem to be living somewhere quite magnificent and fair play to you

Sometimes people don't appreciate what's around them.

 

[FJmike]

The scum who run and manage these "Grouse moors" get tax breaks as well, so you and I are subsidising their awful behaviour.

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[Stewart J]

An example of the very uphill struggle we are having when even the courts won't prosecute despite evidence,
https://raptorpersecutionscotland.w...hooting-fury-at-decision-to-drop-prosecution/

 

[jezport]

You are quite correct, if it has a hooky beak its "removed" even owls and Kestrels in my area

I wont visit you with my macaw then.

 

[Larrynwin]

We have lived in the same home close to the broads for 35 years and the variety of wildlife has become much more varied .
As well as Barn Owls, Little Owls Tawny Owls, Snipe, Heron, Marsh Harrier, Mallard and other game birds aplenty, Kingfisher and many other small birds , in recent years Buzzards now appear daily, also Egret and a few days ago a Red Kite appeared for the first time.
Great to watch.

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[Stewart J]

Love visiting Norfolk to birdwatch Larry, as you say great variety of birds and crucially very few driven grouse moors.

 

[Larrynwin]

Love visiting Norfolk to birdwatch Larry, as you say great variety of birds and crucially very few driven grouse moors.

There seems to be no persecution of birds of prey here as most shooting is of farm bred pheasant and partridge which are not threatened.