In the run up to the glorious 12th there will undoubtably be an increase in activity amongst certain parties in respect of the incidence and frequency of raptor persecution. Some will be real, some will be fabricated, others will be regurgitated from years past and some will simply be ‘missing BoPs’, which could easily mean they have died of natural causes, something many wild creatures do.
Before progressing with this thread I have a message to anyone who does kill Raptors. You don’t represent me, you don’t represent the form of land use which I

For all those who think because livestock are ultimately slaughtered & don’t live out their days in sunlit fields farmers should be hardened to death & in particular #bTB losses. Well this isn’t a factory where every reactor is simply spoiled stock. There are clearly financial.. implications, which in themselves often lead to anxiety, stress and worse. But in many cases the animals lost and make no mistake they are lost, represent years of careful breeding and often have their ‘place’ in the affections of the person who may well have assisted at their...