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Post by Montegriffo on Oct 31, 2023 12:24:41 GMT
www.fieldsportschannel.tv/airgun-law-uk/Extract from the above if you can't be bothered to read all of it: "Pest birds – can you shoot them? This is where it gets complicated. In England, air gun laws used to list birds you CAN’T shoot. Then the government almost accidentally banned all bird shooting so they had to rush out a new list of 20 birds you CAN shoot – it’s a list we call the general licences. Let’s start with doves and pigeons: You can shoot woodpigeons and feral pigeons all over the UK. You can’t shoot stock doves, collared doves or turtle doves. Woodpigeons make good eating but you can’t shoot one to eat it. And if someone questions you, you have to show that you were preventing serious damage to crops. Here’s a crop. Or foodstuffs for livestock. Here’s some foodstuff. Plus it’s worth being able to produce a scarecrow to show you have tried other means. Seriously." So there's your solution Red. Make a scarecrow. Buy a decent air rifle with a silencer. Happy hunting! Interesting link ginnyg. I had no idea you could shoot corvids, I wouldn't shoot them personally, but I'm surprised it's legal. Magpies make a racket but unlike pigeons they're not a problem. At a glance I cant tell the difference between different types of pigeon, if it was using the TV aerial as a toilet I'd shoot it regardless, if I had a gun/rifle. Actually Magpies are a problem. They have a taste for the eggs and young chicks of other birds as do many corvids. I made the mistake of leaving a tray of eggs outside overnight once when catering an event on the farm. The next morning half of them had been cracked open by the crows. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Oct 31, 2023 12:45:13 GMT
Interesting link ginnyg. I had no idea you could shoot corvids, I wouldn't shoot them personally, but I'm surprised it's legal. Magpies make a racket but unlike pigeons they're not a problem. At a glance I cant tell the difference between different types of pigeon, if it was using the TV aerial as a toilet I'd shoot it regardless, if I had a gun/rifle. Actually Magpies are a problem. They have a taste for the eggs and young chicks of other birds as do many corvids. I made the mistake of leaving a tray of eggs outside overnight once when catering an event on the farm. The next morning half of them had been cracked open by the crows. When I said Magpies are not a problem, I was referring to pigeons using the TV aerial as a toilet. Yes I'm aware Magpies are pretty brutal, or clever depending on your point of view, as are all corvids. |
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Post by Montegriffo on Oct 31, 2023 13:03:43 GMT
Actually Magpies are a problem. They have a taste for the eggs and young chicks of other birds as do many corvids. I made the mistake of leaving a tray of eggs outside overnight once when catering an event on the farm. The next morning half of them had been cracked open by the crows. When I said Magpies are not a problem, I was referring to pigeons using the TV aerial as a toilet. Yes I'm aware Magpies are pretty brutal, or clever depending on your point of view, as are all corvids. Many years ago Farmer Paul shot a magpie. I was shocked but he explained that it was killing too many of his songbirds. He loves the crows though even if they do have a habit of pulling the straw out of a stack and eating the corn. No other birds have the strength and intelligence to do that. They can make quite a mess but despite other farmers telling him he should shoot one and hang it up by the stack to dissuade the others he would never do it. He actually said ''but they'd know it was me and I don't want them to hate me''. |
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