Feeding red leg partridge

[boltmaker]

Sure it wasn't a small Gos?

No I walked around the end of the estate sawmill and it was there only about 15 ‘ away.

 

[steve sxs]

No I walked around the end of the estate sawmill and it was there only about 15 ‘ away.

Ah the things you see when you don't have a gun in hand

 

[countrryboy]

Steve why would u make the same bad taste joke twice?

This is a public forum just can't understand the logic in making a joke like that in written word on a public forum.
It does us no factors at all even if meant toungue in cheek

 

[steve sxs]

Steve why would u make the same bad taste joke twice?

This is a public forum just can't understand the logic in making a joke like that in written word on a public forum.
It does us no factors at all even if meant toungue in cheek

I just personally think things have got to a point where you can't say anything remotely un PC wether joke or not, this is not how I was brought up, To hell with the general public who sit with there phones +laptops trying to stop people carrying out lawful pastimes, live and let live is what i was taught

 

[foxdropper]

Havnt read whole thread but has anyone mentioned stubble without which you will never shoot partridge with any consistency .Nowadays stubble is ploughed almost next day .Partridge especially red leg arnt birds of woodland margins nor hedgerows and prefer open country ,lots of it .The bags of yesteryear were attained by flooding the ground with birds and hammering everything that looked at a game bird .
Where I worked as a young beat keeper ,partridge were trained almost daily to fly across a valley from game strip to game strip .Once in the morning and back again in the afternoon .If the acreage isn’t there you are wasting time as a covey on set wings will do half a mile easy .

 

[countrryboy]

I just personally think things have got to a point where you can't say anything remotely un PC wether joke or not, this is not how I was brought up, To hell with the general public who sit with there phones +laptops trying to stop people carrying out lawful pastimes, live and let live is what i was taught

I do actually agree with u and not like me to pick u up on it.
But so easy for throw away jokes to be used out off context, it just plays right into there hands, there already convinced we're all doing it anyway.

But it really wasn't funny the 1st time and 2nd time was just too much

But shooting is on a real shoogily peg at moment mostly caused by internet, social media click bait legions.
Sadly I can only see it getting worse the way things are going ( just a shame no one has a multi media centre and the balls to use it)
But giving them own goals like that just defeats everything

By all means crack the joke in person or an text, really don't have a problem ( I know I will text or say far worse) but I'd never post anything on a public forum.
Ur just asking for trouble and spoiling a fairly positive educational thread

 

[boltmaker]

I was told that the buzzards actually take the sparrow hawk chicks out of their nests in the tops of trees and do much less damage to the partridges. Therefore he preferred to have a few buzzards on the place. Not sure how true that is but given a choice I would certainly choose buzzards over hawks.

I called to see my old head keeper yesterday “come and have a look at this “ .Into the wood not 50 yard from his cottage a Buzzard plucking point containing Tawny owl feathers.

 

[baguio]

I called to see my old head keeper yesterday “come and have a look at this “ .Into the wood not 50 yard from his cottage a Buzzard plucking point containing Tawny owl feathers.

Interesting. Could be some truth in it then?

 

[foxdropper]

Every predator is an opportunist .I doubt very much a buzzard would seek out any bird of prey but would take one if opportunity presented itself .I’ve seen a sparrow hawk almost take a kestrel in a hit and run and definitely a little owl .
No predator puts itself in harms way as an injured predator is a dead one .
Tawneys habit of sitting on top squirrel dreys in daytime may be its undoing ,ive seen them fast asleep during the day relying on camouflage to stay alive .

 

[countrryboy]

I was told by an old keeper most owls need to fly in daylight to give there flight feathers a good preen to keep them silent at night.
And this is when they can be quite vulnerable to predation from other species, esp if their numbers are ridiculously high.