05-07-2014, 12:08 PM
LPC, I have also noticed the return of the Song Thrush in my area (missing for a while) It is a pleasure to hear its voice again!
And all the while, Magpies, Crows, Jackdaws, and Buzzards flourish here quite happily, and there is a hunting-cat about (called 'Buddy'!) Plus numerous feral cats from up at the farm.
So I can't see any countryside logic in the cruel practice of using Larsen Traps!...especially as not many of those traps get by my vigilance. I couldn't sleep at night thinking I had missed one.....
So for all their efforts, they don't get to kill many crows and Magpies, thank goodness.
So it goes to show the song birds are doing okay without humans interfering with their heartless ways.
Sometimes I destroy the traps so they are un-usable, and sometimes (like today) I don't have time. As someone was not far away and I had to be very quick.
And all the while, Magpies, Crows, Jackdaws, and Buzzards flourish here quite happily, and there is a hunting-cat about (called 'Buddy'!) Plus numerous feral cats from up at the farm.
So I can't see any countryside logic in the cruel practice of using Larsen Traps!...especially as not many of those traps get by my vigilance. I couldn't sleep at night thinking I had missed one.....
So for all their efforts, they don't get to kill many crows and Magpies, thank goodness.
So it goes to show the song birds are doing okay without humans interfering with their heartless ways.
Sometimes I destroy the traps so they are un-usable, and sometimes (like today) I don't have time. As someone was not far away and I had to be very quick.
