Police appeal for information after goshawk killed near Goathland, North York Moors

[GeorgeC1]

Police appeal for information after goshawk killed near Goathland - North Yorkshire Police

North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information about an incident in which a goshawk appeared to be killed after becoming caught in a cage trap. Video footage, which was passed on to North Yorkshire Police, shows the bird becoming caught in the trap in the early hours of 2 May 2020. Shortly...

northyorkshire.police.uk

 

[dudders]

They'll know whose door to knock on.

 

[topground]

Alleged to have happened on 2and May and yet not posted on Police website until 25th July suggests they dont know whose door to knock on or this is not high priority. Either way this is odd.

 

[jimcooke770]

They must have caught the bloke who nicked my truck ....

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

It emerged a while ago that the local gamekeeper (who has since died) , had been shooting red kites on the estate when he was in charge - I would have informed the police had I known at the time , it makes me angry how some of these so called country folk carry on .

 

[Dry Rot]

In Germany, nuisance goshawks can be trapped under licence and given to falconers for a nominal sum who often release them at the end of the season.

It seems to me that that suits all parties as the mortality in wild raptors is highest in their first season. It removes a bird that is damaging property. Helping conservation as the bird can be released later when it has learnt to hunt and the game shooting season has ended. Oh, and it puts a few quid in the pocket of the gamekeeper who now has a motive for protecting goshawks.

 

[tullah]

Shame they can't spend as much time finding the criminals who rob the public instead of going after someone who has shot a bird. News is becoming more laughable every day.

 

[teslacoils]

Better hope it wasn't shot by a minority claiming it's part of their cultural fabric.....

 

[DrWazzock]

Quad bike theft, well we can’t stop that.
Fly tipping, nope.
Illegal raves. We get a bit a frightened and can’t stop that either. I mean how hard is it to turn a sound system off FFS?
But somebody shoots an animal and we will be all over it.
We know what take priority for the police in the countryside and it certainly ain’t the human residents who pay their wages.

 

[dudders]

Well, perhaps they're maintaining that record by not finding the culprit? An item in the paper doesn't necessarily mean a great stirring of enthusiasm...

 

[melted welly]

Don’t understand why someone would do that, chances of getting caught must be seriously high with all the saboteurs and other interested parties out there.

I had the wildlife crime officer round here a few yr ago investigating a dead buzzard that had been shot. Answered all the questions, it was nothing to do with me, I don’t have guns but it was “found“ in our field.

After the questions I asked where it was found exactly and the officer said that someone out on their push bike had found it........at 6am........on a Sunday morning.........in the middle of a 12ac standing crop of barley.............they happened across it when they followed a butterfly they wanted to get a photo of into the crop.......immediately noticed it had been shot and reported it. It was rushed to sruc vet dept and found to contain lead shot. She had a photo and the thing must’ve been dead for a fortnight.

seriously?!

At the time there was a syndicate shooting in the woods who weren’t popular with the dog walkers (put up signs about shooting and snaring dogs off the lead ).

Think someone was trying to get them in trouble, and I wouldnt be surprised if this tactic was widely used, whats a couple of dead buzzards if there can be some good anti-game sports propaganda gotten?

 

[Campbell]

Need to call the local plod.....................

 

[steveR]

Police appeal for information after goshawk killed near Goathland - North Yorkshire Police

North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information about an incident in which a goshawk appeared to be killed after becoming caught in a cage trap. Video footage, which was passed on to North Yorkshire Police, shows the bird becoming caught in the trap in the early hours of 2 May 2020. Shortly...

northyorkshire.police.uk

Just happened to have a video camera on the trap..... Hmmmmm

Sounds VERY suspicious to me, shades of Melted Welly's tale......

 

[Exfarmer]

Meanwhile sheep are knocked down And set on fire by people playing dodgems in a field

 

[Run to the hills]

Dont think that article has the video, anyway, here it is

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=967965267007295

 

[thesilentone]

Looks like a put up job to make a PR video to me...............

The edit is strange, we don't see the Hawk enter the trap.

Unless he/she knows for certain they are being filmed, why has he/she kept their hood up ?

 

[melted welly]

That’s some high quality filming there.

How many times does a story about a missing bird make national headlines and how many missing kids make the headlines? There’s a very good and efficient PR machine at work.

How many times does the story about it subsequently turning up make the headlines? An Osprey from here did, they found it 4yrs after it disappeared, on a beach in Senegal. Alive.

I’ve no problem with these big birds, but we don’t keep stock nor do we shoot and I’ve always been surprised that this sort of behaviour still went on, but the events I described above made me pretty sceptical about stories like this.

Also needs to be independent monitoring of the data from the satellite tags. given its political potential, to have it owned privately and selectively released to fit an agenda isn’t right.

 

[Exfarmer]

I too am very sceptical about these videos, they are very easy to make could all be done in 20 minutes with a tame bird.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

I'd like to see all the footage, including when it got into the trap.

When you've got animal rights extremists such as Luke Steele (who just happens to have quite an extensive criminal record) involved in Moorland Monitors, it pays to make sure that you're seeing the whole story, not just what they want you to see.

 

[GeorgeC1]

here's an update

Three gamekeepers suspended after death of protected goshawk on shoot owned by the Queen in the North York Moors

Three men have been questioned by police over the death of a protected bird of prey on a shoot in the North York Moors that is owned by the Queen.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk