davewh100 Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 1 minute ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, that's interesting, do you think this will become a trend with NE, if you know of farmoor water it is inundated with cormorants and that supplies our drinking water 🤔, not to sure from what it was saying theres been some cormorant found dead indifferent parts of the country, mr packham and wild justice are asking why is natural England still allowing numbers of birds to be shot, to be honest we have noticed more this year especially cormorants we ad 8 trying to land on one water on tuesday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 17 minutes ago, davewh100 said: not to sure from what it was saying theres been some cormorant found dead indifferent parts of the country, mr packham and wild justice are asking why is natural England still allowing numbers of birds to be shot, to be honest we have noticed more this year especially cormorants we ad 8 trying to land on one water on tuesday Hello, perhaps packham should see the 10s if not hundreds of cormorants on farmoor water and all the **** going into the water let alone the damage to trout stocks, that costs £1000s of £s from water bills, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewh100 Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 On 04/02/2023 at 12:28, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, perhaps packham should see the 10s if not hundreds of cormorants on farmoor water and all the **** going into the water let alone the damage to trout stocks, that costs £1000s of £s from water bills, we are restocking but trying to hold off taking delivery or it just ends up being expensive bird food Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 The local council has just put a bird flu sign up on one of the back roads to our city . I think its to do with the circumference of the infection rather than the place as they placed it outside or local cemetery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 4 hours ago, davewh100 said: we are restocking but trying to hold off taking delivery or it just ends up being expensive bird food Hello, I dread to think how many trout farmoor loose but they stock in 1000s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 35 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said: Hello, I dread to think how many trout farmoor loose but they stock in 1000s I remember when Loch Fitty was a good local fishery they gave my cousin a speed boat to chase the cormorants off the water before fishing started Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 3 minutes ago, Bigbob said: I remember when Loch Fitty was a good local fishery they gave my cousin a speed boat to chase the cormorants off the water before fishing started What a good idea, farmoor would need that every hour there are so many cormorants 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewh100 Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 36 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said: What a good idea, farmoor would need that every hour there are so many cormorants 🙄 can see the natural England license being suspended for September this yeah, this will be a massive kick in the teeth for some clubs, cormarants are not bothered by starting pistols anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Neal Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 I think this is the most important part to keep in mind: Quote The animals were found to have a mutation of the virus that could make it easier to infect mammals, but there was no evidence of transmission between mammals. What this suggests is that, whilst bird flu is still killing birds, there may be a statistically minute number of cases of mammals contracting the disease. What won't happen is that the virus will start a raging epidemic spreading amongst those mammalian species. Not much to shout about..... at the moment, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted February 6, 2023 Report Share Posted February 6, 2023 9 hours ago, Jim Neal said: I think this is the most important part to keep in mind: What this suggests is that, whilst bird flu is still killing birds, there may be a statistically minute number of cases of mammals contracting the disease. What won't happen is that the virus will start a raging epidemic spreading amongst those mammalian species. Not much to shout about..... at the moment, anyway. I hope your optimism is not misplaced but remember what viruses can do over time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted February 7, 2023 Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 On 06/02/2023 at 08:50, old man said: I hope your optimism is not misplaced but remember what viruses can do over time? Exactly. There is no predicting what a virus might do next. Tricky little blighters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewh100 Posted February 7, 2023 Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 just been reading about two lakes in lancashire one in heywood and one in Oldham with several dead and dying geese on both Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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