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the shizzle => get involved: access, environment, BMC => Topic started by: crimp on March 28, 2013, 09:32:56 am

Title: birds stuff
Post by: crimp on March 28, 2013, 09:32:56 am: Sorry wipey, but it's the feathered kind.

http://www.thebmc.co.uk/bmc-climbing-nesting-restrictions-poster (http://www.thebmc.co.uk/bmc-climbing-nesting-restrictions-poster)
Title: Re: birds stuff
Post by: crimp on June 12, 2013, 10:13:42 am: This is terrible news, and worth flagging up in case anyone was climbing in Roaches area around then and saw anything unusual

https://thebmc.co.uk/roaches-peregrine-chicks-go-missing
Title: Re: birds stuff
Post by: csurfleet on June 12, 2013, 11:36:56 am: Fuckin sickening
Title: Re: birds stuff
Post by: crimp on June 12, 2013, 12:05:49 pm: I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss shooting interests being responsible either. This govt is allowing wealthy shooting estates to declare war on our native raptors to protect their rich friends pheasant shooting.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/314516-rspb-stunned-by-defra-plan-to-imprison-buzzards (http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/314516-rspb-stunned-by-defra-plan-to-imprison-buzzards)

this year they had to use the freedom of information act to find out that licences for this had been granted, and buzzards already been killed on shooting estates
Title: Re: birds stuff
Post by: Johnny Brown on June 12, 2013, 12:42:55 pm: I think it is fair to dismiss shooting interests in this case. I was helping to ring Peregrines at a different site last week and the ringer told me one nest they monitor had been robbed six years on the trot. The sixth year the perps were caught on CC tv, tried and got '20 hours community service', as their defence - that Peregrines aren't rare any more - was accepted by the judge. Apparently one was ex-RSPB! Sounds like the majority are shipped out to the middle east - falconry has been the sport of the sheikhs for centuries.