Get your pheasants off my land!

[HolzKopf]

Except you cannot enter us ... we are virginal

Jeez, what a nightmare it is for you guys in Wales especially for those in the urban areas.

I listened to one of your Welsh assembly Members on R4 at lunchtime. When asked what essential shopping was she struggled. She was then asked whether a kettle if needing to be replaced was 'essential' she said no as other 'alternatives' were available such as boiling a pan of water

Then after saying shops were closed 'to protect local businesses' - she suggested buying the new kettle online!

 

[glasshouse]

Walking back from the barns tonight I met a woman on the footpath that runs along one of our tracks who told me she has written to the local estate and the parish council to complain about pheasants (from the estate) trespassing in her field and garden. She has a couple of acres that she tops off which is basically a refuge now for 'wildlife' no thistles or ragwort but she's keen on barn owls, hedgehogs, songbirds etc. She is slightly eccentric in the nicest possible way but means well and is a country widowed woman.

Luckily my walk along that path is fairly short, buts she is serious. She dislikes shooting, abhors the fact that they are bred for 'slaughter' (I didn't tell her we've got pheasant casserole and sauté potatoes for supper tonight ) and says that they are eating the seed she puts out for the songbirds. She's firmly of the belief that her fencing is fit for purpose but the birds fly over it and it's the responsibility of those who reared them to control them (they do but miss a lot )

I don't subscribe to her train of thought, we have plenty in our own fields and part and parcel of our life but it's an interesting viewpoint.....

She has a point
My lairds pheasants dined at my expense for years

 

[DrWazzock]

She has a point
My lairds pheasants dined at my expense for years

Often cleaned up a few acres of our OSR. And because they are hopeless shots too many left in spring digging out spring cereals and drawing the rooks in. I am a fairy good shot though and can fill the freezer.

 

[Wigeon]

I once took a call from someone a mile or so away, who was frightened to go out if their house, or get out of the car, because whenever they did so they were set upon by an aggressive cock.

I didn't really know what to say.

(Sorry...)

True story though.

 

[glasshouse]

I once took a call from someone a mile or so away, who was frightened to go out if their house, or get out of the car, because whenever they did so they were set upon by an aggressive cock.

I didn't really know what to say.

(Sorry...)

True story though.

Do you grow widgeon?

 

[goodevans]

We have a self-keepered shoot here, who think they own the place despite only having 'the right to take pheasants from the woods'. They are being very generous with their wheat, putting it in a few feeders to spread the pheasants around the place. I checked in one of the feeders the other day, as I moved it out of the way on 'my' track, to find they were being very generous with all manner of weed seeds too. About the dirtiest sample I've ever seen, and likely off the cleaner.

And presumably smelling of aniseed I'm told,I just thought the local keeper liked herbal tablets

 

[Wilksy]

I'll start a thread, free pheasant control, fully insured all land respected, gates left as found

 

[steveR]

Can forum members from Wales advise if you can still meet up for a shoot or not under their new restrictions ?

I was told earlier in the week that it is the Travel aspect that is the issue... Bound to affect
the big commercial outfits, small DIY's less so possibly?

 

[Tarw Coch]

Except you cannot enter us ... we are virginal

I’ve been in and out this afternoon.

 

[Bald Rick]

I’ve been in and out this afternoon.

Dirty beast