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Well I reckon I must be . Today I let my call bird from my last Larson trap fly free . The Magpie has been catching well for a few weeks and I , with its help have caught a great many magpies around the shoot . I’ve not caught a magpie for a while now . And with the Larson traps the ladder trap and shooting. I have reduced the magpie population to an acceptable level . Normally I would have “euthanised “ the call bird , but he has helped me and I gave him his freedom . Seeing him fly off made me feel good . What are these strange feelings? Am I turning into a tree hugger ? F@cking hope not . I’d better go and shoot something.??

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3 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Strange one , I know he has helped you out but I would have dispatched him. He can now go on to breed more horrible pirates next year and predate on our songbirds. No mercy on corvids.

You are probably right . But he’s been a good call bird and by some strange logic I figured he’d earned his freedom. It’s not happened before , but it felt like the right thing to do in this instance.

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6 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

You are probably right . But he’s been a good call bird and by some strange logic I figured he’d earned his freedom. It’s not happened before , but it felt like the right thing to do in this instance.

You will be letting foxes go next ????

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11 minutes ago, samboy said:

I have my soft moments so i would have let it go. I mainly shoot rabbits and the times i have had young ones just a few feet in

front of me and just scared them off.

Yep we've all passed by young rabbits , leverets etc but not magpies,  big no no ?

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I don’t need to let my call birds out, some kind person keeps doing for me. I’ve just had to relocate a couple of larsens that I thought were well hidden. I’ve had a crow in roughly the same location for ages, (I move them about a bit within a small area)it’s recently been found and released. Sometimes the call birds come back to the same trap that they’ve been released from within a couple of days. They must like me because I feed them well?

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