What the heck?

[Deker 3,478]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/11457882/Wild-lynx-to-return-to-Britain-after-1300-years.html

[scothunter 12,609]

Bet there be plenty sharp as images caught on camera phones and trail cams if they are. The odd dead one run over.

[pesky1972 5,363]

They’d have an easy life round me. Roe deer population is out of control, they wouldn’t even need to hunt them, just feed on the carcasses littering the road sides. Might struggle if they have to resort to rabbits mind...

[forest of dean redneck 11,756]

9 hours ago, Deker said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/11457882/Wild-lynx-to-return-to-Britain-after-1300-years.html

Deer eat birds eggs never knew that.

[Greyman 29,218]

8 hours ago, scothunter said:

Bet there be plenty sharp as images caught on camera phones and trail cams if they are. The odd dead one run over.

They have gps tracking collars on much the same as many of the other cats that become film stars, after 6months you would never see them again if they never,

[Greyman 29,218]

9 hours ago, Deker said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/11457882/Wild-lynx-to-return-to-Britain-after-1300-years.html

They never left us

[kinkell 787]

2 hours ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Deer eat birds eggs never knew that.

On Jeremy vine show about rspb a listener said sheep eat curlews eggs unbelievable

[Born Hunter 17,828]

2 hours ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Deer eat birds eggs never knew that.

Not sure if that is a mistaken inference by the author. Deer threaten ground nesting birds because they browse the bottom out of woods and hedges, removing the protective cover for them which then leads to over-predation. Never heard of them eating eggs to any significant degree before?

[Deker 3,478]

2 hours ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Deer eat birds eggs never knew that.

 

4 minutes ago, Born Hunter said:

Not sure if that is a mistaken inference by the author. Deer threaten ground nesting birds because they browse the bottom out of woods and hedges, removing the protective cover for them which then leads to over-predation. Never heard of them eating eggs to any significant degree before?

That was a new one to me as well but a quick search would seem to suggest it does happen to a small extent!

[peterhunter86 8,627]

11 hours ago, scothunter said:

Bet there be plenty sharp as images caught on camera phones and trail cams if they are. The odd dead one run over.

And don't forget one or two will be taken by big cats

[Greyman 29,218]

21 minutes ago, Rusty_terrier said:

Whata the back story to that picture greyman. Thats pretty clear. Is it an escapee ?

Found in a gamekeepers freezer when he was raided by the police and RSPCA for shooting birds of prey , he claimed it was raiding his pheasant pens no reports of anyone loosing it, many people think the Lynx was never made extinct just reduced to such small numbers it became nearly impossible to find them, much like the eastern puma that was declared extinct this year despite people still seeing them around, it's cheaper and easier to declare them extinct than try to do something to save the few left in the wild, when the Kildare forest Lynx are released I,m hoping at least one will pair up with a wild one as all the captive bred ones are gps collared and will be tracked so they will be aware of it if it happens Lynx make up 5 percent of bigcat sightings in the uk, but think that's just because they are so elusive and seldom venture away from woodland were they can hide very easily 

[Greyman 29,218]

5 hours ago, kinkell said:

On Jeremy vine show about rspb a listener said sheep eat curlews eggs unbelievable

They might eat a few by mistake but badgers eat loads deliberately ,though  we won't mention that as it won't fit our agenda and could upset Brian May, hedgehogs are also quite detrimental to ground nesting birds as has been found out on a few Scottish islands were they have been released in places with no fox or badger populations 

[kinkell 787]

37 minutes ago, Greyman said:

They might eat a few by mistake but badgers eat loads deliberately ,though  we won't mention that as it won't fit our agenda and could upset Brian May, hedgehogs are also quite detrimental to ground nesting birds as has been found out on a few Scottish islands were they have been released in places with no fox or badger populations 

Had a peahen sitting on eggs put a pen round it for fox day before they were due to hatch hedgehog inside eaten and smashed eggs was gutted was about 10 year ago

[byron 1,190]

deer can be a problem with eggs..trail cam on stone curlews scrape's/nest prove it..

[mackem 27,787]

3 hours ago, Greyman said:

Found in a gamekeepers freezer when he was raided by the police and RSPCA for shooting birds of prey , he claimed it was raiding his pheasant pens 

Police report solves lynx mystery

A police report said the dead lynx was found in a freezer A 15-year-old mystery of whether a lynx was shot dead in the Norfolk countryside has been solved following a Freedom of Information request. The Norfolk Police report supports claims by Danny Bamping, founder of the British Big Cats Society (BBCS), that a photo of the shot lynx is genuine. The picture of the northern lynx first surfaced in 2003 when it appeared on the BBCS website. The lynx was found in a freezer during a police operation, the report says. It says the discovery of the dead cat took place when a gamekeeper suspected of killing birds of prey was being investigated. Animal stuffed "At the start of the search in an outhouse, which contained a large chest freezer, I asked him what he had in the freezer, and he replied: 'Oh only some pigeons and a lynx'," the officer who wrote the report says. "On opening the freezer there was a large lynx lying stretched out in the freezer on top of a load of pigeons! He had shot this when he saw it chasing his gun dog." Mr Bamping, of Plymouth, Devon, believed then that the 59lb adult cat, which was blamed for killing sheep, was shot by a farmer near Beccles on the Norfolk-Suffolk border in 1991. The gamekeeper put it in his freezer before it was sold to a local collector, who had the animal stuffed. But on Tuesday, it emerged the lynx was shot near Great Witchingham, about 30 miles away in Norfolk. Hoax claim It merely ended up near Beccles in the area where the collector lived, Mr Bamping said. According to the report, officials believed the cat escaped from illegal ownership or a zoo. Mr Bamping said: "It is great that the final pieces of the puzzle are slotting together. Some people said it was hoax, but this just goes to prove them wrong." He said he did not know the current location of the stuffed cat, although it is understood it is in the possession of a wealthy landowner.