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- Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:37 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Oh Deer
- Replies: 17
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Re: Oh Deer
Re wilding is in principle a very noble thing, I would love to be able to go to my local forest and film Wolves, Lynx, Bears and Wild Boar(I might need a reinforced hide to sit in!), but is it fair on those animals? When they lived in the UK the population was measured in thousands not millions, the...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 1:27 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Oh Deer
- Replies: 17
- Views: 61589
Re: Oh Deer
Red Kites are primarily scavengers with small feet that are unsuited to hunting, this actually means they are doing us a service removing roadkill or other corpses from the land, unlike Sea Eagles, that are very much hunters and there are some serious conflicts happening in Scotland that will no dou...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:59 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Oh Deer
- Replies: 17
- Views: 61589
Re: Oh Deer
The problem with re-wilders is they lack patience and spray animals about like confetti in places where the habitat is unsuitable. I had hoped after the botched Sea Eagle introductions where the "perfect place" decided by the dim if well meaning Roy Dennis was letting them go. They promptl...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 9:52 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Oh Deer
- Replies: 17
- Views: 61589
Re: Oh Deer
It already isoldherbaceous wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:39 pm We always interfere….even when some are trying to help…I can see Beavers becoming the next big problem, then culling will have to take place!
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:23 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Oh Deer
- Replies: 17
- Views: 61589
Re: Oh Deer
Deer have been allowed to get to large numbers or in the case of Red Deer, encouraged to get to unsustainable levels to make it easier to take folk out and shoot them. In Scotland there are now some large culls of deer, the shops are full of venison at quite cheap prices too. Since man removed their...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:21 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Oh Deer
- Replies: 17
- Views: 61589
Re: Oh Deer
The camera moving on the tripod is one thing I have to fix when using a long lens at distant, but the images are ok, just a bit wobbly.
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:17 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
- Views: 994329
Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
I've been out a bit, but quiet after the last storm, still struggling with a kidney infection, but not letting it stop me.oldherbaceous wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 1:40 pm Are you still doing your photography, Burnie?
Nice bright day here but, the ground is sodden….
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:49 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Oh Deer
- Replies: 17
- Views: 61589
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:08 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
- Views: 994329
Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Frosty here this morning, got the fire lit, it should be dry, so hope to go for a walk later.
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:07 am
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Flood Prevention
- Replies: 14
- Views: 41706
Re: Flood Prevention
I would go raised beds, no digging and easier to maintain, best thing I have done on my garden
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 10:27 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Flood Prevention
- Replies: 14
- Views: 41706
Re: Flood Prevention
I'm with OH, don't dig, just pile stuff on top, compost, manure, anything to improve the soil and raise the surface. My raised beds have a flat top to them, but an old uncle in Norfolk had more triangular beds with the flat bit on top maybe only two wide, but they were two feet above the rest of his...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: East winds
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8625
Re: East winds
They've been seen in Lincolnshire, just your luck at the moment, they are moving about
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:44 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 182
- Views: 994329
Re: Autumn Bits and Bobs.
Just plunged all the pots in the greenhouse borders to protect the roots and put some fleece on them, 2 degrees in there last night and it's forecast to get colder.
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 3:10 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Raised bed the Hugel way
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10633
Re: Raised bed the Hugel way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xir5hEVrfM I did this video last year, not sure if you can still get the compost from the council tips as I believe a lot of them now sell the stuff to companies making peat free compost. One word though, my sleepers at the bottom are starting to rot a bit, you might...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:10 pm
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: East winds
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8625
Re: East winds
Ahh not really on my patch in Angus, so I can't point you in the right direction. Try finding a local bird club, ours sends you a text when something out of the ordinary turns up, so you can have half a chance of finding it.