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To be fair, as much as I don’t like him......he handled that excellently :lolol:

If there was woodpecker population the size of the corvids then You would be able to shoot them, but there isn’t because they have bigger predators. Corvids don’t have one. What you describe is nature, you’re quite correct, it’s the food chain, conservation is the only way to stop extinction and...

That’s something I agree with him on. Animals are wonderful things, people are not.

Even the RSPB realise the need for pest control, like I said earlier I’m not a gun toting toff by any stretch, but I do understand countryside management, and a ban on pest control will have a lasting effect on our native small and song bird population. This legal action has been taken by a new...

They’ll be reissued from Monday, albeit with different wording, in the meantime you have to apply for an individual license and providing you’ve submitted an application can carry on as before until they decide whether to grant your license or re issue the general license.

I agree, that’s why a farmer can shoot a dog worrying his flock, but in all honesty, it’s not the dog at fault it’s the owner, that’s a whole other issue. Dogs can be controlled or should be controlled by their owner, corvids can’t.

And I must add, I’m not some blood thirsty shotgun lunatic, I’m avidly against shooting for shooting sake, I refuse point blank to go on pheasant and grouse shoots as I don’t agree with birds being bred to be shot.....but I do understand the need to control predatory species that are becoming...

Well I guess without farming there was not the same amount of food source for them, and they didn’t reproduce to the same levels. as they have now. There’s a reason it’s called a murder of crows, I won’t post it on here but google crow pecked lambs.

I think that’s the point in question, they are thriving despite being controlled, imagine what happens if there is no control in place. Whatever you think of farmers, they don’t just go round blasting things out of the sky for fun, there is a reason they do it.

No that’s not at all what he’s saying......did you even read his post ? He used the fox as example of a species that has no natural predators. He said crows and rooks without management will result in a decline in our small bird population. This is fact, not fiction. Having seen crows taking...

Whilst I certainly don’t condone it, the flip side is that there’s 2 less corvids to decimate our song bird population, or peck the eyes out of a newborn lamb

I think he’s a twot never liked him since the really wild show