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Nature on your farm.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Larson trap? Crows are pests. I left the big sliding door on the shed open Monday night & the bastards of grey crows came in & robbed every nest of sparrows & starlings in the place.

    We use the larson trap in winter, let them rear their young first. After that it's fair game!

    Are they legal? Looks pretty cruel and crows are intelligent birds. Doubt if my neighbour is using them to protect nests.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Murph_D wrote: »
    Are they legal? Looks pretty cruel and crows are intelligent birds. Doubt if my neighbour is using them to protect nests.

    Yes, they're legal. You have a call bird with food & water in his section, who's the main attraction to the birds in the surrounding area as they'll fly down to the trap to protect their territory. Should be checked each day & dispatch anything caught.

    He could be protecting anything; lambs, bales, seed, bird cover for GLAS, preventing spread of disease from the birds dirtying in troughs etc


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Yes, they're legal. You have a call bird with food & water in his section, who's the main attraction to the birds in the surrounding area as they'll fly down to the trap to protect their territory. Should be checked each day & dispatch anything caught.

    He could be protecting anything; lambs, bales, seed, bird cover for GLAS, preventing spread of disease from the birds dirtying in troughs etc

    Appreciate the information. Lambs I suppose.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Murph_D wrote: »
    Are they legal? Looks pretty cruel and crows are intelligent birds. Doubt if my neighbour is using them to protect nests.

    Why do you say your neighbour wouldn't be interested in the smaller birds?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    ganmo wrote: »
    Why do you say your neighbour wouldn't be interested in the smaller birds?

    He’s not the nature loving type. Tends to destroy habitats rather than preserve them. Seems to have a particular grudge against trees, but also any kind of hedgerow or bush.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,054 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Water John wrote: »
    Heard the cuckoo today. a few years since Iv'e heard him.
    Go mberimid beo ag an am seo aris.

    I was the same today.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭minerleague


    often hear the cuckoo but saw one yesterday. lucky enough to see otters twice
    in recent years. also saw a stoat ( very small)last year> plenty foxes, less hares
    than before, deer becoming very plentiful ( nice bit of forestry around)


  • Registered Users Posts: 510 ✭✭✭PoorFarmer


    Saw my first cinnabar moth of the year today just in time for ragwort season.
    BIL is after getting a herd of wild/feral goats on his place. Cleaned out about €500 of trees he had put in over the winter. Seriously unimpressed with them ðŸ˜


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭80sDiesel


    Taking of rewinding. Lovely place in West Sussex England called kneep wildland where they did a massive rewilding project.

    The owner gives a great lecture here on the project and rewilding in general
    45 minutes long.

    https://youtu.be/oQtpk6Gsawc

    A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    This might be of interest to some of you.
    https://twitter.com/BSBI_Ireland/status/1271063708605861890?s=20


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  • Registered Users Posts: 28,916 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    A rabbit or a hare ? It had a white tail


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    whelan2 wrote: »
    A rabbit or a hare ? It had a white tail

    Hare I think. Face looks very.....harey. :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,996 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    visitor to the back door today. have seen red fellas around before, great to see they're still around


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    whelan2 wrote: »
    A rabbit or a hare ? It had a white tail

    The hare's ears are the same length as it's head, and are black at the top point.


  • Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭ABitofsense


    Fox cub out for a evening stretch.

    We have a mother & 2 cubs in a ring fort. We fenced it of years old from stock & it's full of wildlife now. Delighted we did


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Dryad's Saddle, Bracket Fungus, well I think that's what it is. Seen today on an ash tree, which has some storm damage.

    Dryads Saddle - Bracket Fungus.jpg

    517035.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,066 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    See a butterfly yesterday. It's a Speckled Wood but the spots were quite yellow.
    http://www.irishbutterflies.com/speckled_wood_butterfly_of_ireland.html

    Sorry never got into posting pics.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,940 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Seen a woodpecker today at the calf paddock.

    Funny bird hoping from timber stake to timber stake and climbing all around them to see what s up. You'd pity the poor cratur when he comes across clipex posts..:p


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,054 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Saw a pine Martin for the first time on the farm the otherday


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Saw a pine Martin for the first time on the farm the otherday


    https://pinemarten.ie/report-a-sighting/


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    517201.jpeg
    Saw this lad the other evening...


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,762 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Saw this lad the other evening...

    You were fairly close there Dinzee?

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    You were fairly close there Dinzee?

    He was only a cub, and I think where I had parked the tractor was in between where he was and where he wanted to go...
    He kept coming and going for the 10mins or so I was there...


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,762 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    He was only a cub, and I think where I had parked the tractor was in between where he was and where he wanted to go...
    He kept coming and going for the 10mins or so I was there...

    A strong cub but maybe not the most cunning.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • Registered Users Posts: 21,066 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Animals both wild and domestic take far less notice of machinery than humans.
    Years past had a spooky lot of cattle. No problem driving through them with the 4 X 4 but if you walked into the field, the heads were up and they were moving.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,066 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    He was only a cub, and I think where I had parked the tractor was in between where he was and where he wanted to go...
    He kept coming and going for the 10mins or so I was there...
    That fox isn't a cub.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,762 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Base price wrote: »
    That fox isn't a cub.

    I'd say it is.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Base price wrote: »
    That fox isn't a cub.

    I thought it was now, that first photo is fairly zoomed in so maybe looks bigger...


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,066 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    I thought it was now, that first photo is fairly zoomed in so maybe looks bigger...
    He looks mature to me also in great condition too.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Base price wrote: »
    He looks mature to me also in great condition too.

    The fur on him in the first pic is cub like


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