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Everything posted by killbilly
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I guess it depends where you are. Having a decent season myself with more birds around than I've seen in a few years. Staying on top of Charlie and having permissions with landowners that maintain natural cover and feeding for birds makes a big difference. Too many Gun clubs I find have members that do FA but turn up in November looking for easy shots while being conspicuous by their absence in terms of vermin control and other ground work the rest of the year.
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Not sure about that. The brother works at the airport and they have to scare buzzards off the runways most days. See a lot around the M50 too
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I reckon some of those female darts players would kick the sh*t out of me and most of the blokes on here
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5am I think
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The UK has let in worse than Donal Trump recently!!
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Lynda Carter aka Wonderwomen. Debra winger starred alongside her for a while and both were well tasty!! http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w6DpkOUdbms/UzXKQQXQI4I/AAAAAAAAK_g/osRQaQSNwdI/s1600/LyndaCarteralos40.jpg
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Some guy who likes wolves makes a youtube video. Fair enough. But its a long way from having wolves running around Wicklow. Also features sheep wearing perfume and what looks like jewellery. Call me cynical but hard to view it as anything other than a wind up!!
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LOL ...look at the date of the article. Last years April fools. Did the rounds on the net back then too
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A great servant to the Pool and it was a low point for me last year that he just missed out on a well deserved Premiership model. I wish him the best in the US and hope to see him back at Liverpool in some mangerial role in the future
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Plenty of cover crop situated in different places throughout the club grounds and birds released every year and also surrounded by 3 other clubs that also release birds.The area we are in has a lot of tillage farms in it so food source is not the problem,also feeders placed in areas all around.I understand shoots can have bad years but this year is a disaster,hens are even scarce on the ground,but the amount of buzzards and pine martins that are about not good for the pheasant population.I moved to this part of the country 25 year ago and have been shooting it since then and long before we eve
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If your not feeding and/or releasing any pheasants then they'll quickly get shot out or bugger off somewhere else. Does your permission have any cover crops even?? My own small club puts a lot of effort into these things and it pays off as we get birds coming in from other clubs grounds too. Some of our neighbours blame Pine Martens and whatever for not having as much birds as they want, but the same lads don't bother doing the basics to make their grounds attractive to holding them. Not saying that's the case with you but you need to have a good look what your permission offers in terms of
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No. Only allowed to use rodenticides in some kind of pet proof bait box
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We had a horse abbatoir down the road up until the horse meat scandal last year. Unfortunatly its been shut since and the the owner doesn't know when he'll be back in business, which is a shame since he used to keep me and the local mounted pack in offal year round.
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Probably something to do with the law I would have thought. Kites are harmless scavangers and suggesting that hunters should go around randomly killing protected wildlife only plays into the hands of the Antis.
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TBH I'm glad I grew up before the age of Facebook and the rest. I shudder to think what my teenage self would be up to on the net.
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Help For Pine Marten Survey!
killbilly replied to jodieh's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
They tried to but they were killed by red kites, pine martins. gos hawks, buzzards,otters ,polecats,sea eagles and one nest was destroyed when a tree fell on it by a beaver I'm not sure are you joking or just misinformed http://britishbirds.co.uk/news-and-comment/common-cranes-breeding-in-Scotland Seem to be doing well on that evidence. -
Help For Pine Marten Survey!
killbilly replied to jodieh's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
Haven't they brought back Cranes to the UK??....love to see them over here,we've plenty of habitat for them too. -
Equally large numbers of mountain hares are shot on Scottish grouse estates to stop them spreading parasites and protect the young heather for Grouse. Thats the excuse anyway...their not eaten and most are thrown in stink pits. Hare numbers are up here in the last few years and they can be hard on new saplings, but I leave them alone unless the damage is very bad
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I'd say this lady will be more interested in our seals than skinny white surfers;)
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Hard to know if the lamb was already dead when the eagle found it. In any case I googled to see if this issue had been looked into in any systematic way and got an interesting link below. http://www.snh.gov.uk/publications-data-and-research/publications/search-the-catalogue/publication-detail/?id=1473
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Not all Gamekeepers are wildlife criminals ... though it doesn't help the publics appreciation of that fact reading some of the comments on here from time to time... . This incident appears to be just a random act by some fool who obviously should not have a gun licence(assuming he even has one!!).
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I wonder how it got its name??
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Owl Predation?
killbilly replied to WannaBKeeper's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
No Tawny Owls in Ireland. Have a pair of Barn Owls here but they've never caused any problems. -
No sweat lad.... I was just thinkin about what type of traps are permitted for use by the general public over here. Love to see a professional ringer at work and can well imagine that it takes alot of skill to do it right.
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Sure fire ahead with the link, never know, might turn a cog or two. I don't think spring traps are legal for corvids over here. I get the best results with multi entry ladder traps.
