Shotgun572013
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At least he can’t quite close in on the Red Squirrels! Peanut butter and Strawberry jam should have him licking his lips tho!
First casualty of the season.
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Shotgun572013
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I didn’t realise they had such a big territory!
You were reasonably lucky, a friend lost nearly 150 in one hit in County Wicklow.
I lost 30+ to an otter, another big flaming weasel.
Shotgun572013
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Aye. Could’ve been a lot worse. Although he might come back this way again !
Tawny owls too can be a real menace, they go for freshly released poults and behead them. As far as the CD thing is concerned, they do work for a very short while but the predators soon get used to them.
I knew a keeper who had a radio constantly playing on a talk channel combined with strobe lighting. it really was something to behold. That too worked for a while but eventually, wildlife got used to it. It's a bit like gas guns, if they are used to keep pigeons and corvids off crops they are much better used sporadically than just being left on all the time.
I knew a keeper who had a radio constantly playing on a talk channel combined with strobe lighting. it really was something to behold. That too worked for a while but eventually, wildlife got used to it. It's a bit like gas guns, if they are used to keep pigeons and corvids off crops they are much better used sporadically than just being left on all the time.
landkeeper
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I had 250 + 16week old poults killed in one night by one of those lovely cuddly pine martens , everyone killed with a single bite to the neck
From what i could see it didnt eat one , thankfully it never came back !
landkeeper
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Another friend had all her adult peafowl killed in the same way and they roosted out but 40ft up in adult lime trees
kamyonsofor
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Had one take a young Blackbird in my backyard right by my backdoor the other week and we live on a housing estate,I was hoping it would come back and take some cats or the neighbours rat of a dog that -raps on the footpaths.
A woman who lives on the Broads came home one day to find an Otter coming out of her cat flap, when she went in her kitchen, the cat lay dead on the floor, I know I shouldn't, but I had to laugh. A relative I know farms next to the one of the Great Broads, he was telling me they used to have a Coot & Moorhen day on the broad, just to keep the numbers down, best they ever managed was 700 !!!, he said your lucky these days if you see seven. Maybe they'll take notice when their precious Bittern disappears.
Wroxham road bridge, middle of the day, outside a pub.
Mustelids, don't you just love em.
Wroxham road bridge, middle of the day, outside a pub.
Mustelids, don't you just love em.
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Also it's very good PC to make our Asian communities feel right at homeA few leopard is what's needed for dog and cat control
Shotgun572013
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Not enough Tigers left !
Stalker62
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I have now placed two feeders (and water) on the outside of the pen to try an provided for those that had wandered off.
I have (thanks to Mrs S62 and Amazon) just taken delivery of a small radio. I understand that some Keepers, deploy a radio at the pen to help keep predators away.
Now then.
Two questions with regard to that.
1) What station to program?
2) How long before it is stolen?
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sikamalc
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People joking about Pine Martens being in areas not seen ever before. I was staggered this past week by a news report on our local SE news channel.
There was as short film clip shown of what appeared to be a Pine Marten chasing a grey Squirrel in a garden in Broadstairs in Kent!!!
Looking at the images it was without doubt a Marten, and a young one too, as it was not that big. The only thing that did look odd was the pale area on its chest. It was white not orange/yellow as I have seen. I thought it might be someones escaped Beech Marten, but then who would keep that as a pet?? It wasnt a Mink either, before someone responds.
Most unusual I have to say. Maybe there are other release programs in place that we have not been made aware of? Even so Broadstairs and the east corner of Kent is far from ideal Marten habitat.
There was as short film clip shown of what appeared to be a Pine Marten chasing a grey Squirrel in a garden in Broadstairs in Kent!!!
Looking at the images it was without doubt a Marten, and a young one too, as it was not that big. The only thing that did look odd was the pale area on its chest. It was white not orange/yellow as I have seen. I thought it might be someones escaped Beech Marten, but then who would keep that as a pet?? It wasnt a Mink either, before someone responds.
Most unusual I have to say. Maybe there are other release programs in place that we have not been made aware of? Even so Broadstairs and the east corner of Kent is far from ideal Marten habitat.
The problem is Malc, the sods will kill and eat anything. They don't need ideal habitat just a few chickens will do, they could live on a housing estate quite comfortably eating raspberry jam sandwiches. Having said that I'm sure some idiot will have released them other than the "Official" introductions. I once went for a keepers job and they had beavers on two ponds on the estate. That was 45 years ago in the West country.
landkeeper
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They are inverterate wanderers and seem to have little concern/fear of humans and i doubt have any predators apart from when young ,
As a predator they are superb if not a bit over the top lol with a huge diversety of diet , anything with those attributes is going to prosper as a species and spread rapidly
As i have posted before i see more pine martens now dead along the roads than either foxes or badgers , i saw one not too long ago ,a big male dead on the main st pavement in a medium sized town it was bigger than an average cat !!!
As a predator they are superb if not a bit over the top lol with a huge diversety of diet , anything with those attributes is going to prosper as a species and spread rapidly
As i have posted before i see more pine martens now dead along the roads than either foxes or badgers , i saw one not too long ago ,a big male dead on the main st pavement in a medium sized town it was bigger than an average cat !!!
We now have a "Richness" of pine martens, in Norfolk, closely followed by an "Unkindness" of ravens, half a dozen to be exact, these creatures are appearing as if by magic, so what next, a "Predation" of wildlife. If anyone has read the Psychopath Test the author goes to interview a CEO who lived in a large mansion, what he saw there was loads of birds of prey statues everywhere & picture of himself, a lot of them mantling their victims. Kind of reminded me of a certain member of the hawk & owl trust who gets very aroused on TV when he mentions the word Predation, "Oh look, a PREDATION"!!!! as he fumbles around in his trouser pockets. I don't know whats worse, predators or people that get turned on by them.
Had plenty down the Avoca valley 30 years ago.
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