Is this a crime ???

[Harvey G]

yorkshire wildlife trust caught cutting hedges in the nesting season is this illegal?? It is for us farmers !!

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

yorkshire wildlife trust caught cutting hedges in the nesting season is this illegal?? It is for us farmers !! View attachment 779092

Hopefully, Yes. Do they receive any BPS payments? If so they should be stopped for the breach.

 

[Harvey G]

Don’t know if they receive owt . Doubt it they have plenty of money to waste!! Bad job though they are the ones that do all the preaching!!

 

[Lofty1984]

Isn’t it more flail cutting that’s illegal?

 

[David.]

I think you can lay hedges and cut manually until April.

What is the job come to, when you are accepting or even hoping that they are committing a "crime" by doing a bit of tidying up on their own ground?

 

[Zippy768]

 

[Princess Pooper]

It's the disturbing of nesting birds that is illegal. Translated into cross compliance, it is mechanical (tractor) trimming finishes at 1 March. Manual cutting, hedge laying etc can continue to 1 April on the basis that you are more likely to spot nests than when on a tractor and should not disturb one when found. So no, they are not doing anything illegal, just as my neighbouring farming who is still hedgelaying is not doing anything illegal.

 

[Still Farming]

Would you build a nest with that lot about?
Typical , wildlife groups dictate do as i say and not as i do alledgely is it?
Report to relavant depts.

 

[ploughman1963]

I think it’s ok to hedgelaying until end of April rather than beginning?

 

[Mursal]

Did you run it past the birds?

 

[Kidds]

Birds are definitely nesting around here now. Hand cutting or not

 

[multi power]

Hedge cutting at any time of the year is NOT illigeal
May not meet cross compliance but that isn't a crime

 

[ollie989898]

Stuff the payment and cut when you like. You know you want to.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Stuff the payment and cut when you like. You know you want to.

But if you destroy birds nests as part of that process, or cause nest abandonment, be prepared for a fine and a criminal record. A birding friend of mine is often called in as an expert witness for birds nest destruction (not just hedges, but people knocking martin and swallow nests down because they don't like the cr*p under them, etc).

 

[Paddington]

But if you destroy birds nests as part of that process, or cause nest abandonment, be prepared for a fine and a criminal record. A birding friend of mine is often called in as an expert witness for birds nest destruction (not just hedges, but people knocking martin and swallow nests down because they don't like the cr*p under them, etc).

Just had to er, relocate four jackdaw nests to get to our gas bottles, two of the nests were using the valves as a base. I shall cite fire risk if plod comes round.

 

[Jim t]

Think I know the answer but is one allowed to rip up a hedge say 20’ to make an exciting gate way bigger?

 

[Goweresque]

Think I know the answer but is one allowed to rip up a hedge say 20’ to make an exciting gate way bigger?

Possibly:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/countryside-hedgerows-regulation-and-management

 

[womble8350]

Stuff the payment and cut when you like. You know you want to.

But then you would be in breach of the countryside wildlife act!,
It funny how many farmers think that shoving the bps would free them from legislation but in reality a lot of the laws exist outside of cross compliance.

 

[Lazy Eric]

Cross compliance or not is it really big and clever to smash song bird nests to bits by hedge cutting in nesting season??!if you think it is your a f**king disgrace to British agriculture.