Strategies for parakeets?
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Skinny Pete
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Ladder traps have worked in their native range but you have to change the ladder design as parrots/parakeets can climb using their beaks.
Depending on tree type you can get communal nesting but as soon as numbers increase nesting holes become scarce so you will find individual pairs rather than groups.
Strikes me there’s some fruitful experimentation with fly tying to be had here!
Plenty around here.
On an estate whereI was a keeper in the Midlands one was killed in the 80's. It flew out f some maize and circled fairly high. With its wedge shaped tail it was mistaken for a magpie and a gun shot it. The boss got it wired up and next shoot day had it on his shoulder. The poor guest had ribbing for weeks with the comments.
Similar years ago on a driven shoot where one of the guns - very showy, but actually an excellent shot - took a snap shot at a crow pushed out of some cover by the beaters
at the end of the drive we all got together and he was very proudly recounting the shot "did you see how F*&ing high that crow was, like a speck" ... just as a beater arrived with a very bedraggled blackbird asking if sir would like to mount it
needless to say his brace to take home at the end of the day was a bit unbalanced being a cock pheasant and a blackbird
Graves is a park here in Sheff, I just saw this on FB.
The Friends of Graves Park are loving it
The Friends of Graves Park are loving it
Propaganda in full swing. The Guardian is at it, too: Birdwatch: the immigrant species bringing a splash of bright green to Britain
I'm not sure that the obvious -and asinine- analogy they are drawing between human migration and the spread ofcolourful tropical birds invasive species is really in line with their progressive agenda, though! (It's a pretty crass way to characterise ethnic minorites, too.)
I'm not sure that the obvious -and asinine- analogy they are drawing between human migration and the spread of
Cuttlefish and sunflower seeds.
Heym SR20
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I do find it slightly ironic that everyone gets very upset about parakeets and yet our two most popular game birds, The phaesant and red legged partridge and both introduced, and indeed bred and released in very large numbers.
Challenge with many of the “pest” species of birds, feral pigeons, crows, magpies, parakeets etc is that are thriving in urban areas. A few days ago here in Edinburgh I counted over 50 carrion crows just around the bog in the middle - eating tadpoles. Yet there are lots of notices about protecting ground nesting birds.
My understanding is that parakeets are a fine sporting target. Any shoot with parakeets present should shoot them on sight, indeed fine guns £5 for everyone they miss.
Challenge with many of the “pest” species of birds, feral pigeons, crows, magpies, parakeets etc is that are thriving in urban areas. A few days ago here in Edinburgh I counted over 50 carrion crows just around the bog in the middle - eating tadpoles. Yet there are lots of notices about protecting ground nesting birds.
My understanding is that parakeets are a fine sporting target. Any shoot with parakeets present should shoot them on sight, indeed fine guns £5 for everyone they miss.
Actually, not much of a "sporting target". You hear a shriek and then they swish past and that's your lot. No chance of walking them up, or driving them from cover over a gun line, however many of the things you had on your ground: so they're vastly inferior to partridges or pheasants for sporting purposes. They won't decoy in numbers, either, so not even as good as the wonderful wood pigeon or the pesky corvid tribe.
Killing the first pair to set up shop near me seems to have worked for now, and the farmer has seen no more green raiders on his fruit trees.
Killing the first pair to set up shop near me seems to have worked for now, and the farmer has seen no more green raiders on his fruit trees.
Nickb
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Why ?
FrighteningGraves is a park here in Sheff, I just saw this on FB.
The Friends of Graves Park are loving it
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Put them right Stuart
regards
i like parrots. i wouldn’t shoot a honey badger either because i like those as well.
I think the Honey Badger might be my favourite animal?
None in Graves Park though, if there were, and it was it or me, I'd shoot it
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Bloody hell. I remember not so long ago you didn't really see Magpies until you were around Cumbernauld and Glasgow. Now the damn things are absolutely everywhere
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