markyboy Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 What are your thoughts!? They have been in about A month a month and a half! This happened couple o wks ago! Also alot of feather at pop holes as if something is being dragged out? I have my own ideas but would like to see what you guys think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ste eibar Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Could be a stoat or we have lost a couple to a cat that live's on a nearby farm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterside Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 We have had exact same thing, the culprits were an owl and buzzards combination of the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougall Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 when ripped apart and multiple corpses gotta think Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyboy Posted August 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Charlie never been back though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutchie the white hunter Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 My thoughts are RED KITE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taffyshooter Posted August 25, 2012 Report Share Posted August 25, 2012 Sounds like a ground based predator. Probably some kind of mustalid. Best to put down a few mink traps and see what turns up!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangerzone Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Mink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pole Star Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 (edited) What are your thoughts!? They have been in about A month a month and a half! This happened couple o wks ago! Also alot of feather at pop holes as if something is being dragged out? I have my own ideas but would like to see what you guys think? Ignore Hutchies answer ! why would a red kite try to drag them through the pop hole I would put the money on a 4 legged culprit for shure !. Edited August 26, 2012 by Pole Star Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillmouse Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 More information needed. Any bodies? Crushed?, Plucked, Necks eaten, bruising, ribs eaten out etc., etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke hamish Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Fox cub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redtailhawk1 Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 As said fox or mink Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 More information needed. Any bodies? Crushed?, Plucked, Necks eaten, bruising, ribs eaten out etc., etc. Any buried..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr baddoo Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Ginger ******** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyboy Posted August 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Will find out more info 2 Moro the keeper just said ripped apart, fox cub tend to just give them a squeeze and kill for fun from my past experience, Tony owl normally heads pulled off! This is a new shoot for me but keeper rekons a badger or a mink! Traps set nothing been caught? Time will tell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyboy Posted August 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Nowhere for a fox to get in, just txt him, all this happened in one night some ripped to pieces and some eaten ! But can't understand these birds should be up trees by now !! For roosting! None buried, nothing been back since ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markyboy Posted August 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Excuse the posts there was a big hole dug under the netting ! I've just been informed ! I never caught him right when on the phone to him! Anyway it could be anything with a hole in the pen ! I think it's been a bit of both! Hole been patched but still feather at pop holes ! Traps down, one sprung this morning but empty ! Do minks hunt in pairs ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutchie the white hunter Posted August 26, 2012 Report Share Posted August 26, 2012 Ignore Hutchies answer ! why would a red kite try to drag them through the pop hole I would put the money on a 4 legged culprit for shure !. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pole Star Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 (edited) Hutch tell us do have nightmares of giant red kites chasing you through the woods at night ! now run along & don't forget you crayons ! or better still take your camera & get it on film ! . Have a nice day ! . Edited August 27, 2012 by Pole Star Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beretta28g Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 Now we now where the "lion" is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pole Star Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 Now we now where the "lion" is! :lol: Don't say things like that Beretta ! poor Hutch has enough trouble running away from those beastly & nasty killer Kites & Buzzards ! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pole Star Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 Nowhere for a fox to get in, just txt him, all this happened in one night some ripped to pieces and some eaten ! But can't understand these birds should be up trees by now !! For roosting! None buried, nothing been back since ! Have you got any Pinemartens in your area ? if they were taken from the trees while roosting perhaps that is the culprit ? but I know little about em but is that a possibility ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinach Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 Should be up in the trees ! If disturbed whilst roosting they often come down then stay on the ground especially if wet ! How old are they ? How bigs the pen ? Horrible to find . Mink sound viable fox and cubs would move them until disturbed and cats can do it and will come back feral or pet if close by. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pole Star Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 Have you got any Pinemartens in your area ? if they were taken from the trees while roosting perhaps that is the culprit ? but I know little about em but is that a possibility ? Other possibility as you have found a hole under the fence is that you have been visited by more than one species of predator . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 If you have more than one or two kills then blame a fox as 90% of the time you will be right knew a case last year when a fox got in a pen and killed a 100 or so (a fraction of the birds in the pen). nothing for a few nights then 25 killed, same next night 25 killed, third evening two big hedgehogs were removed from the pen as they emerged at dusk, no more kills after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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