stewie 3,387 Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 YES!!!! ok the video is im america but the same is going on over here and every single one us should make it our mission to kill every single one of the little b*****ds we see :gunsmilie: :gunsmilie: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wullz 408 Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 Same my way, massice pressure on the wee things. My feeders were out all year and I never had to fill them!! Birds are really low in numbers. We have all the usual tree-rats, corvids (all types), cats and sparrowhawks too...loads of them. I see one regularly in my garden, sits and looks at me...not timid at all. I reckon its the magpies...deffo. Problem is we are in a semi-rural location and if one of these nancy pants do gooders sees me either trapping or slotting a bird or 'nice wee squirrel' in the garden, then I am for the high jump! I have put anti-squirrel things on the feeders and try and cover up the individual feeders so that its only finches that get in, but the numbers aint there.... I think we do need a coordinated effort in conjunction with the authorities to get rid of the high numbers of magpies, squirrels etc.....do you think that will ever happen? Dream on.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 A bloke who lives down my road has got a sticker in his car window saying that sparrowhawks are destroying the British songbird population....the same bloke owns a cat Another person who lives opposite us has 11 cats!!!!! if each cat catches just one bird a day that's over 4000 birds a year, and that's just from one house....and I bet most cats catch more than one bird a day! I used to have two cats years ago, they were in the house once when I got home from work so I let them out the back door and went straight to the bedroom to get changed, I looked out of the window and one had a bird in my garden and the other had a bird in next doors garden. That was literally within 2 minutes of letting them out, they're far too efficient at killing birds and I'm almost certain they're the main problem in urban areas. Out in the country near us there are hundreds of crows nesting in the tree tops, they are the main reason why I've now got an airgun. They're sneaky fekkers though, if I go with just the dog they stay fairly close by, the minute I'm there with the gun they just won't land in the trees anywhere near me! I don't believe Sparrowhawks catch birds in a big enough quantity to have a big impact to be honest. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
keepitcovert 842 Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 No doubt in my mind as to what is killing off songbirds, lack of control over corvids, magpie numbers have exploded in east yorks as a kid i very rarely saw one now i see dozens every day. True the grey squirrel is having some impact, but to say sparrowhawks are doing the damage is bollocks. Lets not forget man is doing far more damage pulling out hedgerows destroying habitat, and turning what was once fertile meadows into sterile praries with very little food for ground foraging birds.On a lighter note found a sklarks nest with 3 eggs in an area where they had dissapeard for several years, also heard a cuckoo on the same day, small things but it made my day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Catcher 1 639 Posted May 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 YES!!!! ok the video is im america but the same is going on over here and every single one us should make it our mission to kill every single one of the little b*****ds we see :gunsmilie: :gunsmilie: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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