Rspb Killing Merlins?

[Blakloks 5]

The badgers at mins mere will be getting it next they filmed one on spring watch swimming onto and island and raiding the avocet nests.

[paulus 26]

The badgers at mins mere will be getting it next they filmed one on spring watch swimming onto and island and raiding the avocet nests.

but they only eat slugs and snails, i have read it on every cuddly badger site i have been on

[danw 1,748]

The badgers at mins mere will be getting it next they filmed one on spring watch swimming onto and island and raiding the avocet nests.

Seen folks moan about they springwatch program but this season there has been some good bits what with rooks and magpies raiding a rabbit nest to the egg eating badgers sure it's stuff we already know about but it lays proof at the door of our doubters.

[adbirdy 14]

 

The badgers at mins mere will be getting it next they filmed one on spring watch swimming onto and island and raiding the avocet nests.

 

Seen folks moan about they springwatch program but this season there has been some good bits what with rooks and magpies raiding a rabbit nest to the egg eating badgers sure it's stuff we already know about but it lays proof at the door of our doubters.

Have to agree, some of the stuff on Springwatch has no doubt come as a nasty shock to the bunny huggers!

 

Ade

[earth-thrower 493]

I control rabbits and mink for the RSPB and have been known to sort out Canadas. At local level they also keep the fox population down. There are people working on their behalf that look for signs of predators, footings, droppings, scats etc. There's a big push to save the vole where I work so mink are discouraged from getting a foot hold, which is a good thing.

just out of curiosity mate,why do they want the rabbits culled,in the situations your refering to ?

[cragman 2,766]

The RSPB are planting saplings which are getting nibbled at and have wildflower meadows they're trying to encourage. The rabbits are hammering them. Went out the other night to observe the area and there was several Hares having a go too, but I won't be touching them. I need to shift the bunnies too as they damage to ground I manage with their digging.

[tjones3862 3,423]

iff hit was to be any bird of prey hit wud be the marsh harrier,,,, and that wud be a big no to culling them,,,, i would take what you heard with a pintch of salt,,,,,you have more chance of the merlin, being in the same area has the hen harrier,,,, and that will not be were the wadeing birds nest,,,

Edited June 21, 2014 by tjones3862

[bird 9,872]

 

 

The badgers at mins mere will be getting it next they filmed one on spring watch swimming onto and island and raiding the avocet nests.

Seen folks moan about they springwatch program but this season there has been some good bits what with rooks and magpies raiding a rabbit nest to the egg eating badgers sure it's stuff we already know about but it lays proof at the door of our doubters.

Have to agree, some of the stuff on Springwatch has no doubt come as a nasty shock to the bunny huggers!

 

Ade

 

[earth-thrower 493]

The RSPB are planting saplings which are getting nibbled at and have wildflower meadows they're trying to encourage. The rabbits are hammering them. Went out the other night to observe the area and there was several Hares having a go too, but I won't be touching them. I need to shift the bunnies too as they damage to ground I manage with their digging.

Up here the rabbit population, can be localised.So where they are absent, its the hares,and roe deer,that can cause problems,in 'new plantings'.

Edited June 23, 2014 by earth-thrower

[Lid 194]

I remember being told that in 70's that the RSPB surveyed some nesting merlins and for some reason painted the eggs, presumably to mark them, but I don't know why.This paint apparently killed the unborn chicks. However I have never been able to verify this. Much more lately they will happily tell my neighbours that they cannot touch nesting jackdaws in their chimneys, which we all know is rubbish because this clearly covered on the open licences under threat to health.

[fluff 409]

hunted land down aldeburgh dirty wall they used to call it ,was rabbit and hare paradise ex m o d place, had some great days coursin rabbiting its lifting with hares , along martela tower ,rspb took it over you get snipe allsorts ,its mostly shingle and grass great for a saluki lurcher had only colie type back then and they blew up but what a place