The Bird Watching Thread

[Mort7]

As the OP of this thread my intent was made clear in my original post. It would be really nice if you would take your veiled threats to slaughter wildlife in your garden somewhere else.

[Mort7]

Mariosbt said:

Mort7 said:

As the OP of this thread my intent was made clear in my original post. It would be really nice if you would take your veiled threats to slaughter wildlife in your garden somewhere else.

On the contrary Mort, I absolutely encourage & promote wildlife in my garden. You don’t seem to be laughing now.

Still chortling away. Incidentally, I hope you've taken the necessary precautions to protect your nest boxes against great spotted woodpeckers - which are much more likely to attack chicks in nest boxes than magpies. https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-an...

If you haven't then it's too late now as a) it's illegal to disturb the nest, and b) you’d probably cause the nesting birds to desert the nest.

You could always start shooting woodpeckers too, of course........

[Mort7]

Mariosbt said:

Good Lord Morty Lad, your like a dog with a bone.. you just don’t give up.

I hope your tits survive. I just don't feel that killing other wildlife is the best way to achieve that. Where do you draw the line? We have a male sparrowhawk which regularly takes birds from our feeding station or when they're feeding on the ground nearby. I've even seen it shaking a bush that they're hiding in to try to flush them out. I don't much like it, but I wouldn't think of harming the sparrowhawk or stopping feeding the other birds so they wouldn't be sitting ducks (not that they are ducks). It's just nature doing what nature does. You can't change that.

Of course the very worst offenders are humans.......

Edit. Thinking about it is wasn't me who saw that, it was Mrs M.

Edit2. Nice slate paintings btw.

Edited by Mort7 on Monday 4th May 09:38