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Nature on your farm.

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  • #32
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Waffletraktor wrote: »
    Wouldn't expect them all to be there next winter as no wild adults to guide them but the base reality is in 6 months most would have been shot/at and wounded and carcass dumped in a hole in the woods as no market for game birds anymore.

    Maybe all is not lost if you live near where migratory ducks return in the Sept. Heard that my grandmother placed wild duck eggs in among the domestic duck eggs to hatch All were raised together until the Autumn when the migrant wild ducks returned to their winter feeding ground. They flew past in noisy flying formation to the nearby river. The young wild ducks in the yard heard them, flew off, and joined them never to be seen again.


  • #33
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    Foxes are fierce plenty this year.
    I’m meeting an awful lot of them in my travels

    I know it’s a farm thread but I’ve taken more in 3 weeks than I did all of the summer. Missed one the other evening


  • #34
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    A local farm was sold in the spring the new owner has cleared every ditch and is filling in every gripe. How is this possible under BPS regulations?
    17 fields into a 130 acre desert FN CRIMINAL:mad:


  • #35
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    A local farm was sold in the spring the new owner has cleared every ditch and is filling in every gripe. How is this possible under BPS regulations?
    17 fields into a 130 acre desert FN CRIMINAL:mad:

    Similar happened last year up in bohernabreena. New land owner bulldozed ditches flat killing everything in its path. Rabbits, foxes badgers etc. feeding for wild birds gone too. Habitats destroyed. For basically land for sheep to graze but it was fine the way it was.


  • #36
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,026 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Similar happened last year up in bohernabreena. New land owner bulldozed ditches flat killing everything in its path. Rabbits, foxes badgers etc. feeding for wild birds gone too. Habitats destroyed. For basically land for sheep to graze but it was fine the way it was.
    I think it's a generation thing.
    The older people see waste. The younger generation see blackberries and goldfinches.

    I see it happening locally too and the person doing it nearly lost their life when the Tellus survey plane flew over. They were asking me was it a Google earth plane..
    I explained what it was and also informed them about the EU land monitoring satellite that goes over every day.

    Some are getting such a low sfp they just don't care. There's the leaving your own stamp on this world and bringing a bit of pride to that individual before they shuffle off, when someone buys a new property, element too.


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  • #37
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,026 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    A local farm was sold in the spring the new owner has cleared every ditch and is filling in every gripe. How is this possible under BPS regulations?
    17 fields into a 130 acre desert FN CRIMINAL:mad:

    Spud growers don't like small fields.
    They don't look well on drone footage on social media.

    If it's the same farm I'm thinking about it was one hell of a grass growing farm.
    It was more suited to grass than tillage.


  • #38
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    Lime Tree Farm wrote: »
    Maybe all is not lost if you live near where migratory ducks return in the Sept. Heard that my grandmother placed wild duck eggs in among the domestic duck eggs to hatch All were raised together until the Autumn when the migrant wild ducks returned to their winter feeding ground. They flew past in noisy flying formation to the nearby river. The young wild ducks in the yard heard them, flew off, and joined them never to be seen again.



    “Breeding comes out in the eye of a cat” is a saying here.
    You can’t beat nature


  • #39
    Doctors room ghost
    Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    dodderangler wrote: »
    I know it’s a farm thread but I’ve taken more in 3 weeks than I did all of the summer. Missed one the other evening



    Yeah all around us is riddled with foxes and healthy looking ones at that.
    Never seen them as plenty


  • #40
    Capercaillie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    A local farm was sold in the spring the new owner has cleared every ditch and is filling in every gripe. How is this possible under BPS regulations?
    17 fields into a 130 acre desert FN CRIMINAL:mad:

    Tis ok, Origin Green says Irish agriculture is sustainable.......


  • #41
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    Capercaillie wrote: »
    Tis ok, Origin Green says Irish agriculture is sustainable.......

    He bought the land, he can do what he wants, he is not anserable to me but it breaks my heart to look at fields we played in as kids gone forever. All for a miserable couple of perches of extra land.
    If one more gimp tells me we as farmers are custodians of the land I will swing for them.
    It must be possible to farm in a way that wildlife,livestock and farm families can co-exist.


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  • #42
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,026 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Anyone see the clip on big week on the farm this year with the nature/environmental expert walking on the farm.

    Background on the farm. It's over a thousand acres with big fields with tillage, spuds and 100 acres of grass. If I remember correctly.

    Anyways Ella was asking the expert what he thought of the farm.
    He wasn't terribly impressed and showed it and just said it's a typical large tillage farm in Ireland with more needing to be done. The host farmer was beside him didn't know where to look.

    Where some see pride in large fields and monocultures, others see devastation and disgust.


  • #43
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,026 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Spear thistles...

    If anyone is looking for a few seeds..Send me on a pm.

    20190911-162537.jpg

    Have these in a field where they're not interfering with the productivity of said field.
    There's been about 15 - 20 goldfinches feeding on these since they went to seed.


  • #44
    forgottenhills
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭forgottenhills


    Do any farmers on here ever come across the Irish lizard, either on their land or on bogs you work etc? And not to be confused with newts which typically are to be found in and around ponds.


  • #45
    Genghis Cant
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,980 Mod ✭✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    forgottenhills wrote: »
    Do any farmers on here ever come across the Irish lizard, either on their land or on bogs you work etc? And not to be confused with newts which typically are to be found in and around ponds.

    Spotted one this year in the polytunnel. Lying up sunning himself one of the nice days we got during the summer.


  • #46
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Place is full of foxes, badgers, hares and goats around here. Not a goes by that you wouldn't encounter a few of them. The terrain around here probably suits them.


  • #47
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    forgottenhills wrote: »
    Do any farmers on here ever come across the Irish lizard, either on their land or on bogs you work etc? And not to be confused with newts which typically are to be found in and around ponds.

    Yes but a long time ago


  • #48
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Danzy wrote: »
    Yes but a long time ago

    Same


  • #49
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,865 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Havent seen a lizard or a newt in 20 years, I saw a frog or toad the other day on the Bray Cliff Walk and that was the first in many years aswell. Ive noticed a lot of dead hedgehogs on the road this year.


  • #50
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    We have plenty of foxes, hare, buzzards, a pair of swans and signets on the lake as well as wild duck, water hens, comorants and a pair of grey herons. We have a family of stoats and occasionally I see the odd pine martin and mink. Rabbits disappeared here a few years ago probably due to the rhd virus but I'm seeing a few around near the headland/hedges. I haven't seen any hedgehogs or badgers around here in years. We have plenty of bats and the odd barn owl. Other than that there are lots of different types of dickie birds living in and around the yard.


  • #51
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Base price wrote: »
    We have plenty of foxes, hare, buzzards, a pair of swans and signets on the lake as well as wild duck, water hens, comorants and a pair of grey herons. We have a family of stoats and occasionally I see the odd pine martin and mink. Rabbits disappeared here a few years ago probably due to the rhd virus but I'm seeing a few around near the headland/hedges. I haven't seen any hedgehogs or badgers around here in years. We have plenty of bats and the odd barn owl. Other than that there are lots of different types of dickie birds living in and around the yard.

    I have fecking bats in the garage - anyone any ideas on how to convince them to leave?


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  • #52
    Base price
    Registered Users Posts: 11,121 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    I have fecking bats in the garage - anyone any ideas on how to convince them to leave?
    My brother has bats hanging out in a new extension that he built onto my late Uncles house about 10 years ago. They arrive in late Spring when it gets warmer, stay for the Summer and disappear around this time of the year. Originally there was five or six but now there are fifty or sixty.


  • #53
    forgottenhills
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭forgottenhills


    ganmo wrote: »
    Same

    I was brought up on a farm but only saw a lizard once on a stack of turf in a bog. Never saw one on the farm itself.


  • #54
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,615 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    I have fecking bats in the garage - anyone any ideas on how to convince them to leave?

    AFAIK they are protected and can't be disturbed.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #55
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    blue5000 wrote: »
    AFAIK they are protected and can't be disturbed.

    I'd prefer it if they moved on to be honest. ;)
    At the minute they are under the slates, above the felt, but if / when they come through... :(


  • #56
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Capercaillie wrote: »
    Belmullet, NW Mayo

    ill be there for the weekend


  • #57
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    I have fecking bats in the garage - anyone any ideas on how to convince them to leave?

    Tell them to start paying rent on time or they’re out of there!
    That’s what my landlord says anyway.


  • #58
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    I'd prefer it if they moved on to be honest. ;)
    At the minute they are under the slates, above the felt, but if / when they come through... :(

    Why would they come through?


  • #59
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    We have a grey heron, pine martins, hares, pheasants, a bird of prey in the bog- neighbour reckons it’s a peregrine. Foxes, plenty of small birds, the ragwort eating caterpillars. Butterflies and moths. Bats and a pair of barn owls. Plenty of field mice, And too many slugs

    This guy is on outside of my window. Can anyone identify it?


    490994.jpeg


  • #60
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Danzy wrote: »
    Why would they come through?

    I would imagine over time they’ll wear the felt and it’ll just break and then they’ll be in...


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  • #61
    dabbler2004
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭dabbler2004


    It's a Garden Cross Spider

    https://www.facebook.com/IrishWildlifeTrust/photos/species-of-the-week-garden-cross-spideraraneus-diadematus-cross-spider-also-know/10153294564335104/


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