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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 14, 2018 16:48:06 GMT
Leprechauns.
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Post by patty on Mar 14, 2018 17:13:42 GMT
So a farmer is poisoning birds then a fox comes along and takes the head off. That would be understandable but the other details described sound like a different thing happening. TBH I now think that no-one wants to be bothered to ask questions...there are no foxes over there...they think gulls ate the heads but I find that a bit questionable as there are all these birds just minus heads and elsewhere on the island there are birds in various states of ...well not exactly decomposition but like the ribcages exposed but flesh elsewhere. I wish now I had photographed all of it but I really expected a bit more of a response. Perhaps you had to walk all round and see everything to realise how iffy it seems. The sheep that had recently died still had its eyes and I would have expected them to have been poked out before other scavengers had a go.. I may go back next week just to see... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 17:19:43 GMT
When I was a about 5 I lived on a farm in Wales (Pembrokeshire) due to having hippy parents with spare cash. Anyway I have a very vivid memory of crows pecking away at an old sheep. It was a bit nasty. The bit I remember most was that they had taken the eyes. It was still alive.
So yes the presence of eyes would indicate to me something unnatural had happened..
I hate crows.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 17:25:33 GMT
What you describe Patty sounds like human intervention rather than animal.
All sounds very strange.
Get the house on the market and move to somewhere YOU want to be.
Take care anyway.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 17:30:49 GMT
Do you get them in Wales? The only place I have ever observed them is on snooker tables. |
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Post by Jim on Mar 14, 2018 17:36:39 GMT
When I was a about 5 I lived on a farm in Wales (Pembrokeshire) due to having hippy parents with spare cash. Manufacturing LSD was popular round there? |
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 14, 2018 17:39:33 GMT
So a sheep farmer is supposedly killing birds? Why would they?
And killing his own sheep and lambs? A bit far fetched.
If it's near your house Patty, keep quiet, you wouldn't want to put off prospective purchasers.
Pretty hard to catch all those birds so maybe poison then make it look otherwise? But the sheep?
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Post by lollygagger on Mar 14, 2018 17:42:23 GMT
When I was a wee boy my dad took me more a walk on the coast in Scotland to see a big colony of nesting seagulls. When we got there someone had very recently smashed almost all the eggs, thousands, some with chicks in various states. It was very upsetting.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 17:48:46 GMT
So a sheep farmer is supposedly killing birds? Why would they? And killing his own sheep and lambs? A bit far fetched. If it's near your house Patty, keep quiet, you wouldn't want to put off prospective purchasers. Pretty hard to catch all those birds so maybe poison then make it look otherwise? But the sheep? Some birds (normally crows) will attack new born lambs - makes farmers angry/upset. Doesn't explain everything though. ETA. Whilst this is hypothetical - the sheep could have died during lambing (happens every so often), then got attacked by gulls - farmer comes across scene where gulls are attacking the carcase and looses it. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 18:00:17 GMT
So a sheep farmer is supposedly killing birds? Why would they? And killing his own sheep and lambs? A bit far fetched. If it's near your house Patty, keep quiet, you wouldn't want to put off prospective purchasers. Pretty hard to catch all those birds so maybe poison then make it look otherwise? But the sheep? Probably best not to include it in the property details |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 18:02:19 GMT
When I was a about 5 I lived on a farm in Wales (Pembrokeshire) due to having hippy parents with spare cash. Manufacturing LSD was popular round there? You may say that I couldn't possibly comment. I was only 5. |
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Post by zigspider on Mar 14, 2018 19:47:53 GMT
When I was a about 5 I lived on a farm in Wales (Pembrokeshire) due to having hippy parents with spare cash. I hate crows. Whereabouts ? ( roughly ) |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2018 20:04:56 GMT
It was near Fishgard. The house my dad owned (1976-1980) has since been converted to a Christian retreat. This place www.ffald-y-brenin.org/ |
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Post by patty on Mar 15, 2018 5:10:42 GMT
I will pop over next week...a friend who works in a wildlife sanctuary has given me a task ..to check out the condition of the dead intact birds....I suspect though the guys at the National Trust will have cleared them..she has a contact within DEFRA
I also subscribe to the theory that 2 of the sheep quite possibly died lambing but not the third...the wound it has does not support that idea.
I don't think it was the farmer ...I don't think he knew...he hadn't cleared up any of the older carcasses
Anyway heres hoping RSPCA will get back to me, he did say he would and Ive agreed to report to him any other iffy sightings...I'm becoming a spy for the countryside...undercover of course.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 15, 2018 8:04:47 GMT
What you describe Patty sounds like human intervention rather than animal. Patty mentioned a farmer that was already on the 'watch this one' list. Any more on him? |
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