lurcherman 887 12,766 Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 Lol pat i reckon its that there left alone to a certain degree security ect theres few old air strips not used any more and handy place for a run here and there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 Rte done a series called wild cities awile back and they done one on the hares in the airport they were all over the place people just walking past them in the carpark. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lenmcharristar 9,224 Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 Be good to stock places with them, instead of culling 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jigsaw 11,810 Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 just walk about the car park there,fekin hares amongst the cars,went to collect a dog one night,couldnt believe my eyes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neil cooney 10,415 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Mosney in County Meath was even better. On the grassy area outside the main gate there used to a "herd" of probably over a hundred hares and they just hopped to one side if you walked through them. Then Mosney was turned into an immigrant camp and the Hares disappeared. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,486 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 i bet i know why Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 26,225 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 i bet i know why they turned them into shit same as everything else in the areas they converge on 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peterhunter86 8,627 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Mosney in County Meath was even better. On the grassy area outside the main gate there used to a "herd" of probably over a hundred hares and they just hopped to one side if you walked through them. Then Mosney was turned into an immigrant camp and the Hares disappeared. I heard its empty now si hooefull they make a come back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neil cooney 10,415 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Mosney in County Meath was even better. On the grassy area outside the main gate there used to a "herd" of probably over a hundred hares and they just hopped to one side if you walked through them. Then Mosney was turned into an immigrant camp and the Hares disappeared. I heard its empty now si hooefull they make a come back. I hope you mean the Hares Peter. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lurcherman 887 12,766 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Even the hares are sick of them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Most airports have a decent ammount of hares on em, though I remember seeing loads in Dublin. I'm sure my family are getting fed-up with me playing 'spot the hare' out the window, when they are in holday mode! When i fly out of Liverpool i usually see a few and i can remember pre-ban when we used to run the foxes around the outsides of JL, shining in and seeing plenty of hares in the dark (had to make tracks sharpish after that though). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fox digger 1,086 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Dublin airport is rotten with them!! I put a topic up here a few years back about them. I was flying Dublin to London weekly and couldn't count the amounts of em I'm see when taking off and landing! I bet there ain't many buzzards up around there because if it was anything like around me they would clear the place of everything!! Fookers are everywhere around here pheasants and hare numbers are dropping big style and buzzard numbers seem to be goin up pretty quickly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neil cooney 10,415 Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Spot on Fox Digger. IMO too the buzzard is the main reason in the decline in hares nowadays. Chemicals on the land was a concern 40 years ago but there was always plenty of hares. The fox, the lurcherman and the coursing clubs have always been there too but the decline in hare numbers coincided with the rise in buzzard numbers. Mind you, 70 or hares in a place as big as Dublin airport is hardly being rotten with them. 30 years ago if you took most places of the same acreage as there there would probably have been the same number of hares. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neil cooney 10,415 Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Most airports have a decent ammount of hares on em, though I remember seeing loads in Dublin. I'm sure my family are getting fed-up with me playing 'spot the hare' out the window, when they are in holday mode! When i fly out of Liverpool i usually see a few and i can remember pre-ban when we used to run the foxes around the outsides of JL, shining in and seeing plenty of hares in the dark (had to make tracks sharpish after that though). Funny enough, years ago when we used to fly into Liverpool for the Waterloo Cup we used to remark on the amount of hares and grey partridge that used to be on their runways. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob284 1,679 Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 The buzzards have gotten bolder and bolder near me, to the point I've had to pick a pup up with a buzzard circling 50yard above me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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