Nature on your farm.

They are buzzards. Ye'd normally see them hanging out up in the sky on clear sunny days.

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Apparently there are some dieback resistant ash trees now, they are the strain with will survive and ultimately dominate, who knows how many decades that will take though.

So basically they’re fúckèd even if they seem to be improving. The tips are bare but plenty in the middle. Thanks

9 hares together on the side of the hill this morning having a bit of a conference, when the cattle started running they all took off at once, it was some sight to see.

I hope thats a pheasant, not a corncrake!!

silage is a big enemy of the pheasant unfortunately.

And any that do escape the buzzard is mopping them up. Very rare to see a pheasant around here since the arrival of the buzzard.

I suspected as much - quiet relieved TBH since pheasants are non-native and most individuals are the product of recent releases for shooting. Corncrake on the other hand are a native species that remains highly endangered despite some recent small increases in places like Erris Mayo and Donegal thanx to the good work of EIP project teams. In fact Pheasants have been removed from some of these areas as they have been found to drive out Corncrakes and the males in particular will destroy any Crake nests they find. Indeed there is some speculation that the recent extinction of Crakes in the Shannon Callows could be caused at least partly by Pheasant releases:(

Your conclusion is wrong. You rarely see pheasants but it is not because of buzzards.

I don’t understand why buzzards are getting such bad reputation in Ireland. I also read on here buzzards decimated rabbit population. I grew up in another EU country (countryside) where you hear and see buzzards daily and pheasants, rabbits are plentiful.

Saw a crow get a good mid air strike on a buzzard yesterday, the buzzard was following 2 crows and another came down on him from behind, knocked a good few feathers out of the buzzard and he fell for a bit before getting his wings out again

We had loads of rabbits the last few years but inevitably the myxo came back and there's only the odd one again.

tAside of the odd pheasant that they may get, do you like to see them around?

I see them circling, soaring and swooping the thermals on a fine day and it lifts my heart.

Come to think of it I haven't seen any Irish Hare about this year, numbers seem to have dropped a lot over the last few years. I remember they used to be abundant and massive in our parish, now you'd be lucky to see any

Had a pair of them getting intimate on the front lawn here a few days ago so I'm expecting the local population to grow 😅

Pheasants are a non-native species and are essentially glorified chickens. If you want them around then u can keep them like chickens. There is no good reason to release them into the wild and impact on native species. I like Peacocks - doesn't mean I'm entitied to release large numbers into the wild(in fact that would be illegal!!)