Magpie Debate – Week Three. Your correspondents seeking to defend the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness of the common magpie offers some impressively weird arguments. Largely suggest that magpies should be left alone because other birds also predate. This is like saying that since Peter Sutcliffe had the murder business pretty […]
Continue reading...Monday, April 12, 2010
‘The Songbird Population in our Garden and Adjacent Woods has Never Recovered’ – 2001 July: By Carol Davies, Nantwich, Cheshire. Although sparrowhawks have not nested close by again they make regular appearances.Here is a brief update of my original letter. It seems an adult Great Spotted woodpecker was not taken and each year ‘our’ pair […]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 13, 2005
“THE RSPB SHOULD ALLOW A CONTROLLED REDUCTION IN – The Number Of Their RSPB Legally ‘Protected’ – NOW Since ‘1954’…!” Sparrowhawks – ? ‘The Magpie Is Not The Only Killer’ – The Sunday Telegraph 2005 – “The Decline In GARDEN Songbird Numbers Caused By Magpie Predation Is Insignificant When Compared To The Devastation Caused To Their Numbers By […]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 27, 2005
The Sunday Telegraph: 2005 February 27th –‘WHY I FUNDED THE MAGPIE SLAUGHTER.’ I am one of the group of people who put up £500 bounty on the proposed magpie cull. This was rightly done – In an attempt to arrest the very serious decline in the small bird population presided over by the ‘Royal Society […]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 14, 2003
“MAGPIES – ARE KILLING OFF ‘OUR’ SONGBIRDS” –Daily Mail 2003 September: There’s Something Touching In The Naivety Of those Who Fondly Imagine That Nature Will Always Find Its Own Balance – “Its all very well telling us that the magpies can’t go on increasing in number if the numbers of their prey – in particular […]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 4, 2002
“Garden Songbirds ‘2002’ April 4th Biggest Population Falls.” The Daily Telegraph: ‘2002’ April 4th Percentage – ‘drop’… ie ‘truth – ‘DEAD.’ 1. Blue tit 43%..2. Long tailed tit 39% 3. Greenfinch 34% 4. Reed bunting 33% 5. Blackbird 32% 6. Sedge Warbler 32% 7. Blackcap 30% 8. Chiffchaff 24% 9. Dunnock 24% 10. Reed Warbler 23% […]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 3, 2001
Grey Squirrels The Enemy Within – The Daily Telegraph: 2001 February 3rd All Photos: ‘RED Squirrel.’ Above – MOVING AN ORPHANED ‘Related Pup.’ A-social females will adopt orphan related pups. “20 YEARS of RESEARCH Showed this Intelligent behaviour.” They live in compete isolation. The only time they will allow another red squirrel on their territory is the […]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 3, 2001
“Asocial Red Squirrels Will Adopt Orphan Related Pups” – AS 20 Years Of Research Carried Out 2001 Showed – “This Intelligent Behaviour.” Female Red Squirrels ARE Moving Orphan Related Pups – They live in compete isolation; the only time they will allow another red squirrel on their territory is the one day a year when the females are […]
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