Jim Morrison

The chap who used to take me ferreting when i was a kid caught birds,he had walking sticks that pulled apart ,a bit like sword sticks,when he found were they were feeding he would unsheath the limed rod from the stick and place it in the reeds,never cared for it my self, most of them die anyway. sad most dies my dad never lost a wild catch. The lime needs of the bird ASAP they try to clean it if themselves that kills them. Not that anyone would use it today but worth knowing

I know it’s been illegal for many many years, however when I was a kid my dad kept birds his favourite was the goldfinch and it is a beautiful bird. He would boil the linseed oil till it was stick enough to use we used to go out the old railway and watch till we saw a goldfinch go in and out of a winbush they we would place tiny sticks with his birdlime on it then the bird was caught the next time it landed. He also carried alcohol and quickly cleaned the line off the bird. He crossed them with a canary and got not as nice mules you can’t mate them. Ty although a lesser bird that a wild goldf