Ridiculous Hunting Laws in UK

I guess they need to use dogs to keeps the birds away.

Look into Brussels and the whole EU agenda, it's enough to make me puke. The Brits have more tolerance and no fire power. In 92 when the EU was formed I believe it was eleven countries and they comprised about thirty percent of the worlds wealth, fast forward it's 30 something countries and a little better than ten percent of the worlds wealth. How's that Brexit coming?

This has been a fiasco for the past few weeks, a tv celebrity threatened legal action over the general license that controls the hunting of 16 birds on the list. The government withdrew the general license because they would have lost the legal case due to a loophole in the wording of the license.

They are rushing through measures that allow the shooting of pest birds but these are being done species by species until a new loophole free general license is issued. So far only corvids and wood pigeons are the only birds to be covered in the new measures but even then it seems to be an unworkable document.



lets hope it gets sorted soon.



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England has a general license just for Carrion Crow & Wood Pigeon at present but a non lethal force measure has to be applied to scare away before lethal force is deemed necessary. 

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It’s a total joke ... especially as I have a Red Wolf and some slugs and can’t use them as such ! I’m sure it will get sorted soon , it can’t carry on like this , the farmers are going mad let me tell you . My Father in law is a farmer and now can’t shoot pigeons , he has to try and scare them , other than running around a field with a picture of my X Wife ( now that’s scary ) he can’t do much else ? It’s a joke ! 



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Because it is like trying to stop the flood after the dam broke. Just like here in California. The people in Sacramento pass laws without thinking of what the 33 million residents might think. Of course those residents just accept the restrictions instead of removing the offending public servants and then changing the laws back.

Wow, that's a shame.

I like crows and don't blame them for doing their thing, but yeah, shoot them if they are stalking livestock.

If you're in the middle of a huge farm, how would some limey code enforcer(/game office or whatever they are called over there) know if you were shooting the crows that are killing your lambs? SSS

Yeah tell me about it I don't think anything will improve anytime soon with the General License,now Wild Justice are saying there is no evidence Magpies kill song birds It just gets worse. 

Hunting is very restricted here. Even burglars are considered off the list.

In the county I live in in NY state hunting is also heavily restricted except for shotguns in most areas. Back in the 1990’s we had a a starling invasion where hundreds of thousands would roost in local parks and by morning the droppings was deep enough where a blind man could track a bear. Fortunately it was late fall where the temperature would drop below freezing at night the county used crop dusting planes to spray the starlings with a detergent solution. The detergent dissolved the oils in their feathers which is needed to insulate them and by morning they froze to death. This was done over a few seasons and it solved the problem. I remember How the sky was black when they were coming in to roost. Perhaps something like this could be done in Great Britain. 

I have shared with ya'll that I raise deer Axis and Sika I lose at a min 10 to 12 babys and yearlings every season. I have even had full grown deer taken out by bobcats. I run traps all spring and fall to keep them in check but still lose 10 to 12 a year. We are allowed to protect our livestock here thank God but goes to show what happens if predators are not kept in check.