YORKSHIRE KITES & PEREGRINES

[Gaz]

Watched a programme today about Kites on an estate in Yorkshire,Harewood Estate :?: been re-introduced,..there was a piece on there about a copper taking dna samples from young peres,his name was Steve Dowling,on there he stated that peres need watching because their eggs get took by collectors,but he said,and this is the reason im mentioning this,that the main problem is Falconers taking the chicks :!: i think this needs to be addressed by the yorkshire clubs/members,perhaps a letter or meeting to re address things,and help establish facts from his statement.
Thoght this was worth mentioning.GAZ.

[BrianM]

i saw it too gaz.. it made my ears sit up too when he said this,,, surley in this day and age this isnt as bad a problem as he made out ....is it ??

[Kevin Massey]

what was the programme gaz?

kev

[BrianM]

it was animal 27/7,,,on a sunday morning

[Kevin Massey]

reason being if it was 24/7....the wife said the chap said something about there was'nt much of a worry about the falconers taking the chicks any more, as there has been in the past...but from bird egg collectors.

mind you she aint 100% on this m8

kev

[Kevin Massey]

lol brian u can type quicker tha i

kev

[Wightwings]

thats the secretary in him....... :lol:

[MickeyDredd]

My local raptor study group were crying out for new members to help out with monitoring various species, peregrine in particular. A mate who is in the group asked if I would mind helping out given my interest in BOP and reasonably knowledge of Scottish raptors.

I agreed for him to propose me at the next meeting on the condition he told them I was an austringer, although I only flew non-indiginous species and had no interest in keeping falcons.

Seemingly you could have heard a pin drop when he told them this and they were not at all keen. The guy responsible for peregrine recording however was a more reasonable-thinking guy and had the decency to at least meet with me at my place to sound me out and see my birds and I now cover quite a few nest sites.

I've never heard of young being taken by falconers in my area but there seems to be an ignorance going around that if your love of raptors manifests itself by you being a falconer rather than a raptor group member you are a thief!! I am doing my best to persuade then otherwise and to be as responsible a member of the group as I can (I didn't even visit the Goldie eyrie I came across last season :shock: )

Do ya think they'll let me do the Goshawks next season :wink:

[Gaz]

about there was'nt much of a worry about the falconers taking the chicks any more, as there has been in the past...but from bird egg collectors
Opposite way round dude.

[OutFlying]

don't forget pigeon fanciers doing the peregrine nests - they did it local to me --------Fact

[Kevin Massey]

also toe-rags who think they have a massive value to falconers, maybe many years ago a few falconers may have done such things but not these days.

kev

[Hawkmaster]

MOVED TO THE CORRECT PLACE :!: