Greyman
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And it was the presence of the camera that appears to have spooked him off the trap, I think they have been advised to remove the cameras now, I'm sure a member of the group I,m involved with is helping them out will see if I can track a picture down I did have it sent to me but I could,nt get the link to work
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According to my sources it's seven sheep killed two partially consumed so if it is him he's getting by, it's got to be a possibility though I no there was the remains of a leopard found on Bodmin moor in the early 80,s I guess it's age and health will have a bearing on if it survives or not
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I think that's what I said roughly, i no many think I,m a madman and what I do is all fake, but in the early 80,s when the cat phenominum really took hold in the uk, Bodmin and exmoor were losing upto 30 sheep per night this was captive bred released animals behaving like fat kids in a cake shop but they quickly learnt and adapted and one thing that's very clear to me is that sheep are a last resort meal for older animals struggling to hunt or parents trying to feed young and not a food of choice, they don't like the chemical taste from dips and sprays and seem to dislike the fleece as well.
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Another thing is that farmers are a little bit wily when it comes to getting a bit of compo and will be blaming everything on the Lynx so they can get a pound or two, I dare say all the sheep were prize winning Suffolk,s worth a fortune
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This is a big problem for the release programme certain bodies that don't want the Lynx released will and are already started using this as an example of a wild Lynx,s normal behaviour, were as in most of there natural habitat they take 0.4 sheep per year I think Scandinavia is the only place the numbers are a bit higher, if the Lynx stay,s free he will naturalise and revert to taking the odd deer in winter and the young of smaller mamals through the summer, the poor thing is used to living in a cage having meet thrown to him, if they sent the sheep carcasses off to the same labs for DNA testi
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Looking at the woods there got to be deer and boar at least in there and I guess normal pigeon,squirrel and corvids up the trees for the catty ,guess it depends on local rules and regs as well
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Your probably spot on mate, but with age you not only hate change but you also like a good moan about it as well, i,m sure I,ll be bang upto speed by Christmas
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Click on insert other media and two options come up click the one that says insert existing attachment and every picture I,ve ever posted comes up don't know if that's just because I'm on an iPad or if it's the same all round if I click the other one I don't know what it wants but neither of them go to my photos like in the old format, good luck
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I ,m really low tech and have only ever had or used an iPad I could walk in the garden take a pic and stick it straight in to a thread now I can't access my photos or anything except the pictures I,ve used in the past, I,m not to worried as I,ve survived fifty odd years without it and will do in the future, but I just can't get my head round, why if it was working fine for everyone would you even think oh I know I,m going to change everything and really f**k them old technophobes up ? Another thing I strongly believe in is if it's not broke why try and fix it which seems to have happened her
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Snap mate I can't add any pictures or vids now, we're as it was a piece of piss before the great update also alarmingly all the pictures I,ve ever posted come up if I press one option even pictures I deleted from my iPad months ago, as an old fecker I don't like change especially when there was nothing wrong with the old format
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The best things in life are free and I don't think you can put a price on that mate, enjoy it
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Even in a scrap yard the best metal is non magnetic, most people that live on boats keep these magnets for the inevitable day they drop there keys in the drink and the magnet fishing has grown from there really, you usually have a small grappling hook with you for things the magnet can't hold there was a bloke round brum a few years ago making a living from scrap he pulled from the canals up there don't know if he,s still about
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sorry I can't add any pictures I have not used before???? But this is all i do with the black widows this is just 15mm tbg for messing around in the garden but it's as accurate as anything and with wider bands I'm sure it would work fine for hunting, more accurate than with Barnet tubes by a mile
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I have had a few goes at it I have a sea searcher magnet all I have found is bent nails and little bits like that, there was a big haul of old guns over a hundred pulled out of the ksd in Somerset not long back, funny thing was they were all ancient and rusty yet the police still swooped in using terrorism laws to sieze them, I think they ranged from Flint locks upto around ww2, best places to find naughty stuff is near road bridges over rivers and canals as people just throw it out the window of cars as they are driving over
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I know it's not very clear but if you look really closely at the middle of the picture you can just about make out what looks like a cat, you would doubt it if it hit you in the face you fool, it's what you do, every good picture has escaped according to you, but no one ask,s you to prove it has escaped you just say it and it's a fact, a single clear picture would quash all doubt, stop talking shite it's getting a bit boring,
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I can't seem to post pics either, all I get is all the pics I,ve posted in the past to choose from ???
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£28 pounds would not cover the cost of material needed to cover that once, let alone five times, and I can't even bring myself to think of her in a thong
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Your only down the road, I have said to people before they can contact me and come out give me a shout I,ll take you to the university and you can discuss your thoughts and beliefs with people far more intelligent than myself, if you think that announcing the discovery of a rare bird will enhance its life and give it protection please tell me how, case one I tell no one and the bird lives a full happy life completely undesturbed, you find it stick it on a twitchers web site and a thousand people with no respect for anyone else's property or privacy only there own photograph come tramping acros
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It is, there are some pretty good pics around at the moment that are a bit suspect have seen one photoshop picture this year make the national papers I did originally suspect the Yorkshire photo as being a hoax but so far it's stood up to all the scrutiny as did the one from the quantocks earlier this year, that one was in your neck of the woods and is in an area with years of sightings and reports the area it was taken in has been examined and scrutinised from all angles the lady that took the pic spoken to and I,m as sure as can be of what the animal was, it's a sad world when people have to
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Your crossing with the other thread mate, has there been any news of the escaped Lynx that started this thread as in sightings or recapture
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I know there are some on here that think it's ok to talk about other people's business, but trust is a big part of what I do and if people ask me not to share things then I,m sorry but that's how it stays, each person has there own reasons some might sound stupid and others are blatantly obvious but all of them are as valid as each other sorry
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If you or any one else here lives in the area and saw a deer in the location I have given that would be clear evidence that the driver is wrong, that is what I,m interested in just the truth if it supports or disproves my claims, I see rare and unusual birds and mammals regularly on my travels and they are an interesting sideline of what I,m doing, I,ve said on numerous occasions I don't need anyone here to believe me as I know , but the point I was trying to make is the vast effort some people make to prove nothing for or against but just to give them a voice and maybe get a like ? If I was
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I know you are desperate to pooh pooh everything, but the reason I,m asking is so I can tick it off as mistaken identification if that's the case as I,m sure something like this would have been seen or heard by people local only thing I can say with any certainty is that what ever was laying there it's been incredibly well cleaned up because all that was there when we got someone at the scene was a large area of fresh disinfectant, 8 out of 10 reports turn out to be a waste of time but it's still better to go and check rather than sitting indoors quoting Wikipedia, since my last post I,ve bee
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Don't know if anyone is in the potters bar area, but there was a report of a dead puma on the side of the m25 this week been reported in local papers, sadly by the time news came through and someone was able to get there it was just a big patch of cleaning fluid so not even a spec of DNA to recover, just wondering if anyone local heard or saw anything it was on the slip road apparently,
