Sparrowhawk Too Busy Chasing Sparrow !

[Born Hunter 17,813]

Only game bird that comes to my mind when talking about sparrowhawks are grey partridge... which is a native species!

[Lab 10,979]

It's Ok Lab My Dogs Are Born & Bred In The Uk So There A Native Species Which I Believe Is Fine Hunting Another Native Species

Lol......oh I'm quite happy with that too.

Just have to agree to disagree on the other subject...?

[fireman 10,997]

Sparrow hawks have the rest of the world to hunt what they llike but come into my garden and harrass my birds and well lets say the last one that did i got so close to it i could read the number on the ring it was wearing ,

It did fly off again after i scared it so no harm came to it,honest

[GPT1973 5]

Get a few sparrow hawks buzzing about here but the people up the road have 3 cats and I bet they kill more garden birds than the sparrow hawks, two of the cats are pretty accomplished partridge hunters regularly see the fuckers with them when they are fist released. As we have fields front and back of the house where the syndicate put a couple of thousand down.

[South hams hunter 8,934]

Lab rabbits aint native and all we can hunt now and like fuxkinf pheasants they're a pest. I try and do my bit to control all pests including released birds thay cross the border or are on the road

[Lab 10,979]

Lab rabbits aint native and all we can hunt now and like fuxkinf pheasants they're a pest. I try and do my bit to control all pests including released birds thay cross the border or are on the road

I see what you did there!!....hahaha

[South hams hunter 8,934]

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[neil cooney 10,416]

 

Wouldn't mind seeing a few sparrowhawks and kestrals around here (like we used too) and less buzzards (like we used too).

Drop A Load Off Pheasant Poults Down Mate That'll Bring Them In

 

I do, every year.

What I'm saying is that I used to see sparrow hawks and kestrals every day but now they're scarce and I blame the buzzard.

To see 6 or 7 of the one species of predator in a morning is not natural.

[Wullz 408]

 

Too many sparrowhawks about for sure, I had to take my feeders down last year, they had become a feeding station for the sparrowhawks, I used to get goldies, bullies, long tailed tits all sorts, all I get now is jackdaws, cushies and magpies....few if any small finches.....shame. Lab is right, sparrowhawks and magpies need controlling, natural balance is out....

I Understand What Your Saying Regarding Feeders But When You Take Your Feeders Down & The Garden Birds Disappear To Feed Else-Where Do You Think The Spa Stops Hunting / Killing Them . . No It Doesn't It Still Hunts Them Just Not In Your Garden.

Maybe, but taking them down removes a very easy feeding station for them! I love sparrowhawks, very close to my heart, I used to be a registered keeper with the DOE and took them in injured and released them when they were fit again.

BUT there are deffo too many now...buzzards too, there are a pair nesting in the high pines in my street ffs! You never used to see them, had to look, now they are in the villages....

[paulus 26]

once things were protected for a valid reason, now we just seem to want to protect what we find appealing rather than what needs it, billions over the years collected to save the panda, them billions have not helped save the pandas environment, so the panda exists mainly now for our entertainment, why!!!! the countryside is about as natural as our cities, its man made and man managed, money will always triumph over sentiment its the way the world works, the simple fact is if sparrowhawks are causing a problem then that problem has to be addressed by those it effects without hindrance by those it doesn't.

[GPT1973 5]

A shame the same can't be said for the millions of cats that kill anything they can. Makes me laugh when you talk to people that moan about sparrow hawks and magpies (not that I like magpies) but they own cats. That are even worse in my opinion.