More pheasants are lost on your shoots by buggering off or are killed on the roads from what i see, but what saddens me is the inclination by many folk to poison or kill birds of prey.(even mentioned in this thread)
How would you lot like it if someone poisoned all your young poults or your working dogs!
Some gamekeepers give me the dry boak, jumped up little hitlers.
Do you know your stuff its not just poults they kill the fact that they are the apex predator the have no natural predators and up my way are out of control i counted 14 buzzards up here in no time and funnily enough