Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Maybe if they are around the pigeons will disappear !
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Hopefully, yes. But a sparrowhawk isn't big enough to frighten gulls off. We need kites or buzzards for that.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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sounds like divided opinion on this issue
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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seems like our gulls get off rather lightly, this from the telegraph.
The 45 year-old, who has not been named, was arrested after the Taverner's restaurant in Godshill, Isle of Wight, was discovered to have started serving rook salad.
Yesterday, officials confirmed the man, from Ryde, Isle of Wight, had been issued with a caution following a joint investigation Natural England and Hampshire Police.
The man was arrested in June on suspicion of committing a number of offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Rooks and other wild birds, except wood pigeons, are legally protected and their sale for human consumption is illegal.
Rooks can, however, be controlled under special circumstances under a General Licence issued by Natural England.
The investigation found the man shot up to 30 fledgling rooks and sold them to a meat wholesaler, who sold them on to the restaurant for human consumption.
He faced a maximum £5000 fine and a jail sentence of up to six months for each bird shot.
Officials said advice letters had been sent to the wholesaler, who has also not been named, and local restaurant owners requesting they stop selling the rooks immediately.
In May bird conservationists for people to boycott the Taverner's restaurant after it started serving the salad.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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As someone who has lived opposite a rookery I can understand why someone would want to shoot them, they make the most awful noise at times. Having said that they were very good at aerating the lawn and removing any food scraps that were meaty.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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This explains why I have been unable to find any gull recipes. I had thought a gull Caesar salad might sell quite well.
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Hungarian Gullash, Peter?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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jan;
so cos they are noisy we shoot them?????
there are noisy people round here do we shoot them ???????
dont answer that lol
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Where did I say they 'should' be shot, I said I can understand why people might shoot them.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The noise is not a problem. If there was no waste in plastic sacks and no well-meaning old ladies feeding them, they would not be a nuisance.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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So, should we shoot the old ladies and those who put out their black sacks too early ?
Big savings all round.
Roger
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Thanks Melissa
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i must go and get my sawn off shotgun out of the pawnbrokers.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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oh dear jan
now look what you done lol
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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How gull-able some folk are.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I prefer my steak blue, thats taking it a bit too far
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