hedge removal

[DrWazzock]

It might be illegal, but whether its morally wrong is debatable in my view. It's a peculiarly Western thing that we are crying over a few birds nests maybe, when some folk round the world are dying in the street because they are short of 50p.

 

[DrWazzock]

And birds nests get raided everyday by buzzards, crows, cats and magpies.

 

[Kidds]

Ooh! I bet you are one of those that used to shoot robins with an air rifle.

 

[7610 super q]

I like kicking puffins up the arse if that helps.

 

[Grassman]

It might be illegal, but whether its morally wrong is debatable in my view. It's a peculiarly Western thing that we are crying over a few birds nests maybe, when some folk round the world are dying in the street because they are short of 50p.

I cant personally do much for the rest of the world but where I can I will help wildlife

 

[primmiemoo]

Been talking about this, today. With all the options we have now, if anyone with hedges feels that any of them are in need of removal, surely they're doing something wrong in either their farming or their "lifestyle".

 

[lloyd]

You can still remove hedges on Ag land, you just need planning permission these days.
If you have a valid reason (like making fields more efficient) then it’s just a formality I understand.

Not sure it's that easy anymore.
Seem to remember farmers being turned down
just because they can.

 

[An Gof]

Been talking about this, today. With all the options we have now, if anyone with hedges feels that any of them are in need of removal, surely they're doing something wrong in either their farming or their "lifestyle".

Well I have some hedges that I think are in need of removal …. Only wish they had been taken out years ago.
I’m sure there are plenty who could tell me that both my farming and my lifestyle was wrong

 

[DrWazzock]

Ooh! I bet you are one of those that used to shoot robins with an air rifle.

That would be a pointless cruel wanton waste so I’d never do such a thing.
But if I could I would take out 100 yards of crappy old hedge to make two 12 acre fields into one nice long 24 acre field and avoid all the wasted time and diesel and compaction with having to turn the machinery round twice as many times as necessary. On the scale of things half a dozen birds nests is neither here nor there. As I say, far more are lost due to uncontrolled birds of prey, magpies and domestic moggies but nobody bothers about that.

 

[primmiemoo]

Well I have some hedges that I think are in need of removal …. Only wish they had been taken out years ago.
I’m sure there are plenty who could tell me that both my farming and my lifestyle was wrong

Point taken , but most hedges that were removed were removed decades ago. Hedges are havens for wild flora and fauna ~ better than beetle banks, I've been told ~ and we do have ways of farming that takes account of them.

 

[Sid]

Tree cut in half in neighbour row over driveway pigeon poo

A dispute over nesting pigeon's poo escalates into drastic arboreal surgery in a Sheffield suburb.

www.bbc.co.uk

JFDI seems to be a popular option?

 

[Kidds]

That would be a pointless cruel wanton waste so I’d never do such a thing.
But if I could I would take out 100 yards of crappy old hedge to make two 12 acre fields into one nice long 24 acre field and avoid all the wasted time and diesel and compaction with having to turn the machinery round twice as many times as necessary. On the scale of things half a dozen birds nests is neither here nor there. As I say, far more are lost due to uncontrolled birds of prey, magpies and domestic moggies but nobody bothers about that.

You wouldn't do it while the birds were nesting though would you?
That is what the thread is about and the fact that it would be a cruel wanton waste to do so.

 

[DrWazzock]

You wouldn't do it while the birds were nesting though would you?
That is what the thread is about and the fact that it would be a cruel wanton waste to do so.

No, I wouldn’t. I’d do it in the winter.