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What's happened to all the Buzzards?

I've been in the farming buisness for 10 years and never heard anything about it.

Pasted from another forum There is a new threat to our much loved partridge and others, obviously there is a new treatment for seed grain on the market from Bayer Crop Science called "Rubin" which can be highly toxical for partridge and pheasant! on a shoot virtually all partridge disappeared within a week of sowing this years winter wheat, he is a vet and asked the farmers what they changed from last year and they told him about this new treatment and he looked over the chemicals and one is highly toxical to all birds with a muscle stomach (all galliformes). After this I contacted our go

Just something out the blue that came into my head. I try not to get into this situation but it is very possible here with the amount of game about. Like I said in previous posts, coveys of partridge are 200+ not 20

This may seem a silly question to some but would a bird of prey start to self-hunt if shown alot or to much game? I fly mostly from a "follow on" position not often from the fist so say my FHH had a flight at a pheasant, missed it then sat in a tree 100 yards away, as I walk closer a rabbit pops up 50 yards infront of her and she takes flight and missed that and she ends up 100-150 yards away then say a hare gets up as she is about to land on top of a hedge and she desides to have ago chases and kills it. When Im out flying I could stay in the same field all day chasing game not because the f

Im not sure about the laws regarding birds of prey but dogs with livestock is a totally different story.

And how long did it take to write this one Derek

My Mrs had 1 of them, she said she felt that many prick's she didn't know what 1 was mine cheeky biatch.

you must be queer :crazy: a hobby and pleasure in 1 :tongue4: I WISH

hope that wasn't a hawthorn bush jasper

What's wrong with it 2 birds for the price of 1

What does your old man do, AI or Natural?

I think the best thing to do is to get it going ASAP as you will only be holding her back even if you are flying her for a month or two then start again after the moult.

I couldn't agree more with the frosts ect, but then again there are alot of falconers that teather all year even through the moult all depents on shelter I suppose.

Im not trying to have a argument but everyone I know who picks up a P/R Accipiter picks them up early, males about 9 weeks and females about 10- 10 1/2 weeks so I cant see much difference what bird it is but then again we could be getting on to another subject C/R vs P/R