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Tuesday 19 October 2021

No White-tailed Eagles for Ken Hill next year...

The planned program to release sixty Polish White-tailed Eagles in North Norfolk has been cancelled: reading the attached article from the Daily Telegraph, it's not hard to see why. Have you ever seen such a bunch of ill-informed, prejudiced poppycock in all your life? Does the writer have any data from Mull about pig-scaring Eagles? Don't the Poles keep pigs? How about Scandinavian farmers? And as for all the nonsense about small raptor species wiping out songbirds: does the writer not feel that destruction of hedgerows and copses and the casual use of insecticides might be of greater significance?

4 comments:

Unknown said...

All those sparrowhawk's fault!! Would be nice to see some honest debate about this subject.

David Bryant said...

I once went (by mistake) to a talk by the Songbird Survival people and was appalled to hear them proposing a cull of Sparrowhawks, Kestrels and other raptors!

Unknown said...

Isn't the song bird survival trust part of a shooting organisation?

David Bryant said...

Apparently so (The Countryside Alliance, I think) I was invited along by a birding friend who, like me, was mislead by the advertising in our local magazine. I made my thoughts on raptor persecution perfectly clear. (I was surprised to find that one of the speakers was the late Mike Blackburn, one of the original wardens at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen)