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[Pistonbroke]

What do these eagles eat?
If they will take the crows away then I'm all for them

Badgers more like

 

[neilo]

Funnily, I re-read, and thought the same..... English incomers!

When we moved in, a neighbouring farmer came round with a cake to introduce himself, as you do. He was bemoaning the ‘incomers’ and I thought, here we go….
He wasn’t talking about us though, but those that have moved into the town, then try to take over and change it.

Another local, doing some groundworks for us, described it as ‘a lovely town, but wouldn’t want to live there’. I can see his point.

I like the area, the landscape and the local farming community (mostly), but we definitely live too close to the town!

I guess that makes me one of those ‘narrow minded farmers’?

 

[bobdav]

Seen exactly the same here in North Pembrokeshire.
Used to see have loads of buzzards and no kites, now we have a couple of pairs of red kites but rarely see a buzzards. Coincidence or connected i don't know

 

[Pistonbroke]

Always the case when predator numbers are out of balance.

I'm thinking along the lines of The old woman who swallowed a fly. Bigger the predator the bigger the target. Says on their website they'll hunt birds up to a swan .There's a couple of broken mouth Welsh yows here will be looking over their shoulders!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

For my whole life we have had dozens of buzzards on the farm. Since a couple of red kites have started visiting once every few weeks we have almost no buzzards. Whether bird flu has scuppered them or red kites we arn’t sure but the last 2-3 years a lot of our caravaners have been asking where the buzzards have all gone.

I have a couple here, I see them on the fence in the same spot every day, yours have obviously flown east to Llandysul!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

What do these eagles eat?
If they will take the crows away then I'm all for them

I am sure I have read that Sea Eagles take young lambs, I believe the environmentalists said they would not, as it's not their natural diet, until they did. Obviously the ecologists forgot to tell the Eagles!

Shocking picture shows sea eagle carrying lamb — as Isle of Wight farmers raise concerns

SEA EAGLES could fly off with young lambs and seriously jeopardise farming businesses, an Isle of Wight farm has warned.

www.countypress.co.uk

 

[Tarw Coch]

Another local, doing some groundworks for us, described it as ‘a lovely town, but wouldn’t want to live there’. I can see his point.

Now who do we know with a digger

 

[neilo]

Now who do we know with a digger

It was before I met with the intrepid mole chaser.

 

[neilo]

I am sure I have read that Sea Eagles take young lambs, I believe the environmentalists said they would not, as it's not their natural diet, until they did. Obviously the ecologists forgot to tell the Eagles!

Shocking picture shows sea eagle carrying lamb — as Isle of Wight farmers raise concerns

SEA EAGLES could fly off with young lambs and seriously jeopardise farming businesses, an Isle of Wight farm has warned.

www.countypress.co.uk

They continued to insist they wouldn't take lambs, blaming such reports on the narrow minded farmers, even in the face of mounting photographic evidence. Not sure what the position is currently, but they'll obviously never admit it was a mistake.

Had some farmers up from the Isle of White a few weeks ago. Apparently they are looking at 're-introducing' beavers there now too, despite there being no evidence that there have ever been beavers on the IofW.

 

[Pistonbroke]

They continued to insist they wouldn't take lambs, blaming such reports on the narrow minded farmers, even in the face of mounting photographic evidence. Not sure what the position is currently, but they'll obviously never admit it was a mistake.

Had some farmers up from the Isle of White a few weeks ago. Apparently they are looking at 're-introducing' beavers there now too, despite there being no evidence that there have ever been beavers on the IofW.

A bit like the Irish lumberjack applying for a job.
"Previous experience?"
"Felling trees on Antarctica"
"There's no trees on Antarctica "
" Well,not once I'd been there , obviously."

 

[Still Farming]

What do these eagles eat?
If they will take the crows away then I'm all for them

And magpies

 

[PostHarvest]

There was a lot of opposition on here to the red kites being helped and they're no harm to anything much.

I don't agree that they do no harm. A former colleague was a big wheel in the RSPB and worked on the reintroduction of red kites. Later he told me that he regretted introducing them as people set up feeding stations that encouraged large groups to concentrate in smallish areas - like near Stokenchurch on the M40 - where they wipe out small mammals and ground nesting birds.

 

[Fat Lamb]

What do these eagles eat?
If they will take the crows away then I'm all for them

Ask the farmers up the north and west coast of Scotland.

 

[Radnor Lad]

There was a lot of opposition on here to the red kites being helped and they're no harm to anything much. That thing looks like it take your children

We have loads of kites round us. Not a garden bird to be found with us at all. Although I do like watching them dive into grass when mowing

 

[Pistonbroke]

I don't agree that they do no harm. A former colleague was a big wheel in the RSPB and worked on the reintroduction of red kites. Later he told me that he regretted introducing them as people set up feeding stations that encouraged large groups to concentrate in smallish areas - like near Stokenchurch on the M40 - where they wipe out small mammals and ground nesting birds.

Didn't say no harm,I said not much. My point was more about targets for massive eagles. Ducks ,geese and swans are on their menu apparently amongst other things. Don't tell me they won't take a lamb if the opportunity arises

 

[Still Farming]

Drakeford will rewild the lot and wait till the Wolves come too???

 

[Doing it for the kids]

There was a lot of opposition on here to the red kites being helped and they're no harm to anything much. That thing looks like it take your children

Tell that to any small things with a pulse round here

In my opinion there are now too many Red Kites about, I wonder if the proliferation of raptors is affecting other small songbird numbers. Went to pick up a calf the other day, and I think Mark said he counted 67 Kites circling his silage field this summer. surely this must be altering the make up of all our other wildlife.

Around us 200 in afield is no big deal now, it’s awful.

I don't agree that they do no harm. A former colleague was a big wheel in the RSPB and worked on the reintroduction of red kites. Later he told me that he regretted introducing them as people set up feeding stations that encouraged large groups to concentrate in smallish areas - like near Stokenchurch on the M40 - where they wipe out small mammals and ground nesting birds.

Beat me to it!

 

[Top Tip.]

Ask the farmers up the north and west coast of Scotland.

Plenty of farms and crofts up the west coast of Scotland that are no longer viable to keep sheep because of sea eagle predation.

 

[neilo]

Drakeford will rewild the lot and wait till the Wolves come too???

I suppose they might tighten restrictions then, so probably better to get a rifle sorted well ahead of time?

 

[Uggman]

I suppose they might tighten restrictions then, so probably better to get a rifle sorted well ahead of time?

What sort out Drakeford