Buzzards beaten to death!

[al4x]

As the Tesco advert says, "every little helps"

 

 

I've never quite got the logic with diversionary feeding though it does seem a legal way to cure the problem

[mark g]

the big increase in buzzard numbers coincided with the widespread use of larsen traps, we dont trap or kill any corvids any more, the big flat nests are a soft target for magpies, carrions and now ravens. corvids take far less birds than buzzards

[Scully]

We have a small inner pen inside our main pen,and all new birds whether ex-layers or poults go in there first.It is quite busy with mainly conifers which Buzzards cannot penetrate but we are still stringing wire from side to side in a criss-cross random fashion just above head height to deter smaller raptors such as Owls etc.
After finding three or four pheasant carcasses some weeks ago which looked as though they had been forced into corners and attacked in big outer pen, which has many different varieties of trees and is far too big to wire,we set up our trail cam and found a Badger leaving the pen on numerous occassions and a Buzzard feeding on what the Badger/s had left.

We intend,before next season,to 'round off' all corners internally.Nothing landbourne got in before we opened pop-holes.

Syndicate birds are arriving next weekend;have in the past lost birds in the pens to Owls but not Buzzards as far as we know.

[Scully]

As an aside to this thread,there were quite a few people locally who were less than impressed with the leniency of this sentence,coupled with the fact that several blokes who were recently convicted of taking a Badger with a view to baiting(as subsequent enquiries have shown) have had their sentences reduced to 'community service' has only strengthened the antis attitude towards those involved in country pursuits locally.Not happy bunnies.

Edited August 3, 2013 by Scully

[norfolk dumpling]

Watched a buzzard take a fairly well grown leveret last summer in Suffolk.