NEW PERMISSION BESIDE WILDFOWL SANCTUARY

goss101

Hi lads just a quick question, i just got a new permission a few weeks ago through word of mouth where i've been doing some vermin control for a few farmers.
Anyway got a call out to get some corvids off some new sown barley, went out and it had started to sprout so not too many on it but got a bag of 36 mixed, 2 were grey crows so happy enough. But when i was cleaning up the farmer came over and had the chat and gave me the lay of what he owned, a nice 120 acres and told me to shoot away whenever/wherever i liked so happy days.
So the main question is this land runs down to a lake which just so happens the lake itself is a Wildfowl Sanctuary, how am i fixed legally to shoot the land around this sanctuary??
could i be in bother if i was pheasant shooting in November and shooting a pheasant down by the shoreline??
Also what would be the legality of shooting duck if they were landing in the stubbles when the season is on?? these barley fields would be 4/5 fields away from the lake itself?

cookimonster

Not 100% sure on your situation....., but a group of use hunt land adjacent to a Bird Watch Ireland Sanctuary and once we are shooting on our side of the fence every thing is bon a fide.


Obviously if the lake is a sanctuary then I would take it that the foreshore around it is also a sanctuary, look for boundary markings such as obvious fencing or path ways etc and avoid shooting into and directly over the area.
Accretion and erosion (shifting of banks etc) are taken into account so best to air on caution.

I would be on my best behaviour in and around your permission as many a wildfowl enthusiast has a zoom lense.

meathstevie

Simple,do not shoot on or over the sanctuary and all is fine. If you look on a folio map you should be able to clearly see the boundary lines.