save our songbirds

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1351054/Crows-magpies-trapped-killed-cull-protect-songbirds.html have a look what do you think

kill the crow but not the sparrow hawks,

the rspb is in denial and needs to wake up from its long hibernation and accept that if they dont agree to a cull on these predators the general public will do it behind there backs

This is the joke, If you read oit carefully they are culling a non protected species to try and save the songbirds, However the people who have put protected status on the Sparrowhawks and falcons are the r.s.p.b. So they can lift the status in order to sort this out. I have to say I live on a farm with masses of wildlife all around me and have only seena magpie take 1 sparrow in my whole life, Corvids mostly only take fleglings and eggs, but the song birds in decline are in most cases not even getting to the breeding stage such as skylarks and cuckoos, so the problem must lie somewhere eles, we know but they are blind.

how do i put a picture message on lads ?ive got some in my folder but am lost on how to post them

if youve only seen one sparrow killed by magpies your a lucky man come up here in northeast and watch them marrauding through the gardens mob handed killing birds with ease groups 20 strong on a dailly basis .in the nesting season they hang upside down from the roofs and mimic the parents ov sparrow chicks who then pop their heads out to be pulled out of nest and eaten on the chimney i dont know if anyone knew this either that woodpeckers eat chicks as well! my blue tits were all eaten by one i watched it in disbelief

Why dont you all go on the site that Ian has put up no need to put anything about pigeons the songbirds are the main thing the way they are going your kids wont ear one never mind see one I have put one in weather they will print it is a different thing it all helps that what the monk said when p***ed in the teid

the rsbp know excactly what the sparrowhawks are doing to the birds and our pigeons, they are just lying through their teeth and thinking of any excuses they can to blame others.........

dont have any doubts about it, they know.......

Ginger169 wrote:

Why dont you all go on the site that Ian has put up no need to put anything about pigeons the songbirds are the main thing the way they are going your kids wont ear one never mind see one I have put one in weather they will print it is a different thing it all helps that what the monk said when p***ed in the teid

good idea mate i have just posted my reply ,come on lads get those replys in this is a national newspaper a voice that can be heard !

yes

i probably kill 120 magpies a year and it makes no difference at all there prolific breeders with very few enemies that prey on them go on the rapid 7 forum and look for maggy slayer theres a pic i put on show of magpies

Comlaining is a waste of time, rspb, and bto members have a love affair with raptors, I think only when they wake up one morning and the raptors are all thats left and they start eating eachother will they think theres a problem.

I used to shoot magpies, waste of my money the more I shot the more I saw, dont bother now. thers an endless supply a bit like perigrines.

theres always some reason behind things like this, why is it that the rspb are protecting these killers and covering it up that these are responsible for the bird population dwindeling and our pigeons getting killed.........i know they are a registered charity and must have some wealthy backers because of the amount of funds they seem to have available, so im thinking theres a reason the rspb are allowing this to continue.......and behind all corruption is usually money, i know certain councils do not want ferals, starlings and most other birds living on the buildings in the cities and have seen that they are employing bops etc to keep the numbers down for them, i know this is just the tip of the iceberg but in my mind there is more to this going on than we know about.

When at Blackpool this year me and Ken signed the partition save the song birds had a word with a few others and a cordin gto it there was only 4,000 signatures on the partition

Poor if you ask me

nothing you can do about it its nature we as pigeon fanciers cull more every year is this not true just get on with it and live with it no use getting worked up about this

ian wrote:

nothing you can do about it its nature we as pigeon fanciers cull more every year is this not true just get on with it and live with it no use getting worked up about this

there is tho ian, yes pigeon fanciers usually do kill pigeons each year, but these are the ones which are no good.......not like in some cases where there winners are ripped to bits by hawks etc.


as don says, it isnt many to say how many pigeon fanciers there are..........all most of them want to do is moan about the problem and do nothing abut it.

DAVID wrote:

ian wrote:

nothing you can do about it its nature we as pigeon fanciers cull more every year is this not true just get on with it and live with it no use getting worked up about this

there is tho ian, yes pigeon fanciers usually do kill pigeons each year, but these are the ones which are no good.......not like in some cases where there winners are ripped to bits by hawks etc.


as don says, it isnt many to say how many pigeon fanciers there are..........all most of them want to do is moan about the problem and do nothing abut it.

Cheers David

thers lots moan about this david and dont do anything , iam not that bothered like i say it has to feed its young we do the same we eat meat dont we same thing

Here you are Ian think of this, my freind Eric Pearson was 3rd Nantes National with a Blue Hen was 2nd car nom and won a few quid was getting her ready the following year

2 weeks befor e the race was out flying and a sparrow hawk took her out of the sky no messing and that is a top pigeon

Ian how would you feel if you had a UNC winner taken from the sky like that i don't need to say hey

gutted but thats nature lost many of good birds maybe by hawkes wires weather who knows but got to move on

Yes i understand but something has to be done

maybe but how can this be done apart from wiping them out totally

Take the protection of them and allow them to be reduced in numbers to help all round

The R.S.P.B if they have a breed of bird that is a problem then they allow the numbers to be reduced

ian wrote:

thers lots moan about this david and dont do anything , iam not that bothered like i say it has to feed its young we do the same we eat meat dont we same thing

cant beleive this is the opinion of a pigeon man ian, im sure many others will be furious at these coments.........

i`ll say no more at the moment.