Rook food?

[J Darcy 5,871]

So is it Ralph with the blue bandage or Roger? ...How do you know they aint gurlies....

DDDUUURRRRRR,,,Mike, she has obviously seen their willys...

[Guest MOLLY]

Roger is sporting the dapper blue waistcoat . If they are girls they will just have to be Rogerina & Ralfiette

 

Tomorrows shopping list...

Mite powder.

Tonic.

Chicks.

Cadge more duck/hen eggs from sis.

Tinned dog food.

Cheap minced meat.

 

I havent looked for their willy's yet Darcy, after all ive only known them one night

 

MOLL.

[Guest MOLLY]

Nahhh...its Doris and she is broken to birds for flying with the bop. Jazz would like to say hello, probably more so to eat the tray of egg, oatabix and cat food

Although she did swallow a fledgling whole last night

MOLL.

[jultaylor1972 2]

I havent looked for their willy's yet Darcy, after all ive only known them one night

[Guest WILF]

Millet....understand your point mate, but I wonder if you would feel the same if/when you set up your own pheasant shoot?.......which I think you have talked about before?..(please correct me if I am wrong)

 

Then you would be called upon to undertake all sorts of tasks which would not be considered sporting/ethical but would none the less be essential

 

Things take on a different tack then mate...........not a "have a pop" type post mate so please dont take it the wrong way..........just an interesting point to consider

[jasper65 6]

Wilf I don't think Rooks do half the damage as a crow jay or Magpie. Rooks eat alot of seed and leather jackets and seldom take anything live compared to the above, a farmer near me had his keeper shoot out a rookery a few years back, not because they was causeing problems with the young game birds but mainly cause the guy was growing Leaks and the leather jackets was dug in to the roots of the veg, the rooks dug out his young leaks to get to the leather jackets and left the plant dead laying on top, apart from this they hardly did any harm apart to some cerial crops.

 

There's not so many Rookery's about these days round here so you get them nesting in Hawthorn and hedges, its a shame as the sound of a Rookery is part of the countryside....

 

Cheers

 

Jasper

[Ossie 11]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/series9/week_nine.shtml

scroll down to halfway down the page - this is a story from the local news about the biggest rookery in the country, on Strumpshaw Fen at Buckenham in Norfolk... ,000 rooks!

see what the estates keeper says about them...

[Guest WILF]

Millet.......fair play bud

 

Ossie.......dont belive everything the Beeb tell you, they are hardly likely to have someone on there saying shoot "em all

[Ossie 11]

read on a bit, they quote a local farmer - he has them shot.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Back in Portsmouth, where I was born and raised, there's a place called Alexandra Park. Right on the roadside, on the southern side, there used to be a row of massive tall trees. Had a Rookery in those. Then, one day, they cut all the trees down. Gone for ever. As are the rooks. But then, we used to have the annual Gypsy Fair there too. Another thing known to my parents and their parents, like the Rookery. Now long since gone. Nuke the whole f*cking place now, as far as I'm concerned. Nothing left there worth shit.

[Guest ragumup]

Folks are always moaning at me to shoot the rooks as they shit allover the locals new cars and stain the paint, and they do eat any game bird nest they come a cross, personally in my job i see them as flying rats

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

I cant see why you are bothering either with the avian vermin , they should have been necked. If you wanted birds for an aviary I can think of better birds to acquire than these black vermin.

 

Corvids should be culled at every opportunity !!

[alimac 882]

I could of quite easily rove the head's of the 2 of them which i usually do... but these 2 deserve half a chance.

Im all into shooting and hunting with dog's but it does my fecking head in when people go all out to shoot parent bird's/mammal's rearing young.. accident's happen but this was no accident..

They where left in the nest to starve and die slow.. but i wont go into that.. ..

Rook's may look ugly but what harm do they actualy do.. .. as ive read more positive stuff about them than negative.. is it just some folk like the bulge growing in there trouser's by shooting feeding parent's and there young to make there bag's look big..

And the main piss of for me is these people did not even have the decency to dog the wounded bird's in and kill them.. .. they just went gung ho using as many cartridge's as they could then left the spot.. leaving car's to splat and other folk to deal with there aftermath.

So in my eye's these bird's desreve a second chance .. and my belief is IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO A JOB DO IT PROPERLY..

Millet

 

when people go out to as you say put a bulge in there pants, more than 95 % of what is shot are young birds, thats why its called branching,there not out to purposfully shot adults, if they were decoying adults on drilling i could see your point ( well sort of) i do it every year, not because i enjoy it, i mean looking vertical all day with your twelvey going off every minute or so aint my idea off fun, but when it comes to watching them all grubbing up the game cover etc that we spend not hundreds but thousands of pounds putting in then i see why i do it. i agree with you 110% that there wankers for not retreiving runners etc...

[Guest MOLLY]

I cant see why you are bothering either with the avian vermin

Ermm...cos i want to Am i hurting anyone else by doing so

 

If you wanted birds for an aviary I can think of better birds to acquire than these black vermin.

Have you actually read the thread

 

Anyways, got sis here today and Rogers wing has been much more professionally bandaged. I can see what people mean about how they would tame easily. He sits perched upon one finger. Whilst waiting for their egg to cook i stroked the top of his beak. At first his 3rd eyelid started to close then eventually he completely closed his eyes totally relaxed, head drooped. They are real characters, totally different from each other, quite endearing really.

De-loused, thank god. I love most animals but can quite honestly say it felt good to see the mite lying on their back feet in the air

MOLL.

[Guest WILF]

Ermm...cos i want to Am i hurting anyone else by doing so

 

Thats the best reason Moll ...........I can picture you in 6 months running about the farm shouting at all the shooters "Dont you bloody hurt my babys"