Inan - you turned over before the best bit !
An image that will stay with me forever, is him lying across the pavement, face down with his head in the gutter, sniffing a hedgehog to see how fresh it was.
priceless
Yes Moley - usually peg them down too. Although a few on mine have a pivoted strip of mesh along the bottom edge of the door - this falls down and lodges in the bottom and helps 'lock' the door shut.
Mind you even with the spring it isn't fool proof. I had a rat in one once and he was belting round climbin all over the inside of it really fast, like they do. Anyway - don't know what I was thinking but I stood it up on the back end - door upwards held shut the spring. The little sod climbed up and his body weight opened the door enough forhim to get out
This should about cover it
http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countrysi...abbit.htm#legal
or better still http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/regulat/...rtpest/pa11.pdf
Don't know if any of you have seen it, but there a rather nice little reproduction Bullfinch trap for sale on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=200072167640
Ossie - have a look at this thread - there's a bit of a discussion about licenses and info on identification kits which are available FOC
http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index...showtopic=17846
I am pretty sure that they are all disposed of in accordance with the law.
To quote from the DEFRA Code of Best Practice:
The body must be disposed of responsibly, e.g. by deep burying (more than a metre).
Nemo - I am no expert in this area, but the link to the Environment Agency seems to make it fairly clear
A new byelaw for trapping crayfish in England and Wales came into force on the 1st of June 2005.
In the past only the Thames Region of the Environment Agency had the authority to allow this activity.
The byelaw changes restrict accidental or deliberate transportation of alien crayfish and ‘crayfish plague’, whilst still allowing the legitimate trapping of the crustaceans.
Permission to trap crayfish will be dependant on the local situation in particular the prese
FD - yes it is,
you're supposed to have a licence and you must and should release the native ones,not eat them
and yes they are :ok: .
Have a look at the link posted earlier http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subje...rsion=1&lang=_e