Peregrine falcon is a real conservationist dilemma.....little owl??? Hawks and grey partridge don’t mix.
You would but the noise of the combine is constant all day3 full time gamekeepers plus a full time apprentice. More keepers than farm staff these days! It's hard work - they still have hundreds of traps & snares down even at this time of year.
You'd think that 575 horsepower of combine harvester would be noisy enough to move them away...
Gamekeepers are evil though, and do nothing for conservation
I'd like to do more trapping but only have so much time to get everything done. Do your keepers feed all year round or have they stopped for a month or two now?
Gamekeeper do nothing for conservation??
What's keeping food and water most year year round and controling predators??
There is a reason that most shoots have more wildlife than land not shot over.
Think it was Ian Botham who proved this but tree huggers just ignore it and continue to blame farmers fir everything.
I used to think pheasants were the worst. Even if you managed to flush them out of a standing crop the first thing they would do when you got back into the cab was run straight back in again!Greys are rare for a reason! I have to stop combining at dusk because my boss doesn't want them munched up. Regularly I see a covey get up out of the spring barley just in front of the header only to land 20 feet further ahead. Each time there seem to be less popping up but some will have jugged down under the cutterbar. Occasionally I'll see a puff of feathers as one goes in the front.
The Frenchies will walk away and fly far enough to be out of harm's way.
Losing 20% of the day by stopping this early is a pain but we service up at night then start earlier the next morning so the net effect on harvesting capacity is less. Persuading the trustees to fund a 3000 acre combine for cutting 2200 acres was interesting!
I think you missed the sarcasm in that post, hence the “bang head against a brick wall” emoji
Is that really 63mm or 6.3mm, whichever not good especially with more forecast.63 mm rained all night
not at all good for young partridge
63 mmIs that really 63mm or 6.3mm, whichever not good especially with more forecast.