Recent content by Wilksy

That’s good going, immeasurable amount of song birds saved, it will make a big difference to this years breeding birds, there’s two awd lads I know are mad keen trappers ones 90 the other 86, not enough folk do it 👍🏼

We seem to be alright for kestrels, still common sight on hovering at the roadside, had one follow me last year stacking bales in the field, that was nice to see

Nothing, that’s the trouble all predators need a predator, otherwise you’re relying on starvation or bad weather to control they’re numbers

It was for a mate about three years ago but it has caught when baited, you can just make out the old one behind it, mates dad runs Larsens for maggys and crows around the farm also

I made this one based on the BASC plans, beefed it up to 2”x2” and tweaked the measurements so it fit on an old greenhouse frame base

That’s i good idea, that was biggest problem for me when I did it, infill rubble moving and jamming the core drilll, seem to think I drilled a pilot hole right through and drilled from both sides

Saw my first yesterday, always warms the heart

Well exactly, everything’s got to eat, and it probably went off and caught a blackbird or something else nice, and all she’s done is prolong the pigeons distress, but it just a sad example of how detached folk are from wildlife and and how brutal it can be

On my wife’s local FB page a woman posts, frantic, she’d scared a bird of prey of a pigeon in her garden and now she has an injured traumatized pigeon! What should she do with it? Most of the the replies were you should have left well alone and let the BOP crack on but long story short the local...

It’s cliche but it is all a fine balance, it’s unavoidable that man’s actions affect wildlife, just one example, wood pigeon population has exploded due to modern farming but grey partridge numbers decline, some species thrive and exploit man,others can’t adapt. It’s always amazed me how pandas...

Wife just come back from visiting friends down south and come back with a bag of collagen peptides (bovine) powder, (marine derived also available) they swear by it, reading up on it, it helps with tendons, joints, skin, bones, basically protein but easy to absorb, our collagen production starts...

The doctor doesn’t want the patient to get well

Has anyone tried, or can you even get the uk, those chocolate brown ones with the cream sole that all the Alaskans wear?