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Wildlife lowlight of the week
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Posted 4 years ago #
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No man totally brown and stubby
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@unhurt
Beavers are still being shot. Mountain hares are fair game this year and will be culled. Quite possible SNH will issue licences for hare culls in coming years.
It is grim.
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That's bad but I actually think habitat fragmentation / destruction is a bigger threat - the mammals are just the charismatic tip of the extinction iceberg, after all. Biodiversity & bio-abundance crashing in plain sight but somehow invisible to almost everyone.
Yesterday a friend of a friend left this comment on a Facebook thread: "In a [local area] group, someone complained birds were making nests."
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You are correct of course, but that can be written off as a mistake or collateral damage whereas setting out with a gun to kill something is brazen?
The economy could be boosted if birds could be persuaded to buy plastic nests.
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Might turn into a highlight
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Wildlife campaigner Chris Packham has sent a video message to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon calling on her to “do something as soon as possible” to stop the illegal killing of birds of prey in Scotland.
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https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/chris-packham-sends-nicola-sturgeon-video-plea-2935485
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The Scottish Government has just largely accepted the recommendations of their Advisory Group on Economic Recovery chaired by the Chief Exec of Buccleuch Estates.
One of the worst places to be a bird of prey is the Leadhills Estate.
There is no connection between these two things.
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Somebody spotted mink in the canal: https://twitter.com/Niallofthe9/status/1293159183399911424
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The Animal Liberation Front have a lot to answer for. Airgunners assemble...
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@IWRATS are you sure it wasn't the Liberation Front of Animals?
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Let's split the difference?
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Mink not friendly if you are a water rat. Vicious.
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Labour has called for grouse shooting to be licensed after a big increase in illegal killings of birds of prey during the coronavirus lockdown, the majority of which, investigators say, are linked to the sport.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/12/call-grouse-shooting-licensed-rise-bird-prey-deaths
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Went for an early morning road ride and found a freshly dead brown hare. Bright eyes, not stiff yet, fresh-smelling, left side of head panned in. Hid her in a ditch and came back in the motor car to collect her and the chanterelles I'd also seen.
Butchered her and put the horrigles out for the kites, who gathered in numbers. Two kilos of meat, casseroled in white wine with the shrooms and a dab of cream.
Apologies to the plant-based posters who have got this far. But hear ye this - as I had the meat I put the gun away and abstained from hunting so a life has been saved by this tragic accident.
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I've been leaving my panniers, helmet and gloves in the shed. I haven't cycled for a couple of months because of a (non-cycling related) leg injury. This morning I found that mice had chewed the gel out of my cycling gloves.
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Mice are gel addicts
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@gembo - What's in it for them? It looks very unpalatable. Nesting material?
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Mice will eat anything humans have touched, just for the grease and sweat. They ate the nozzle of my Camelbak once, causing a small flood.
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I'm sure my grease and sweat are a gourmet's delight, but as a garnish on what looks like compressed sponge rubber?
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Gel is the mice version of tofu?
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A large toad being pecked to death by some crows.
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High for the crows, low for the toads.
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Dead weasel. Tiny. :(
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Fridge mice are back. I guess it's their winter home and they know autumn is here.
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A mouse scampering at my feet while I watched the telly. I only pursue them when they start running around the cooker. It's an old property with thick walls so mice find plenty of shelter.
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@Rosie
Borrow a cat for a fortnight and they will bolt big time. Effects can last a couple of months.
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IWRATS - good scheme. I don't own a cat though I do like cats, because I like feeding wild birds, but some do drop in now and then, trying to make my acquaintance so I'll encourage them.
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Friend of mine lived in Grove Street - notorious as Mouse Central and the day she got a cat she could actually hear the mice high-tailing it through the walls.
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