Arthur
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Shooters are thin enough on the ground around here, big change from 15- 20 years ago when nothing was safe, one shooter was nicknamed " hands up in the stubbles"
Farmland and environmental protection
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Blackwater boy
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It looks like swans like beet tops, counted at least 80 of them in a field over the road from here. I presume they come in off the river. They are here every day with the last 3 weeks.
rayban
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If any of you have spare land for honey bees we have beekeepers looking for apiary sites. Just go to www.irishbeekeeping.ie
and we will try and hook you up with a beekeeper in your general area
and we will try and hook you up with a beekeeper in your general area
was in my neighbours yard today, he,s a feed merchant and the yard was covered with crows and pigeons and he said he,s never seen anything like it this past few days, its like they know theres snow on the way and they,re trying to build up reserves for the hungry days ahead
gone
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Not many Buzzards about??????
plenty of them but it seems hunger is getting the better of them, this yard would be spotless and you,d very rarely see any birds near the place but today was unreal
diesel power
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Down in the brothers this morning just after the foddering was done and both of us were looking out of the workshop at the yard covered in small birds picking up the spilled bits of meal. Neither of us have ever seen so many at the same time. God knows what kind of a cold spell we may be in for.
I know of a young lad that put Sleepy Crow on some meal and spread it on the snow with a Vicon . He thought they would eat it and freeze to death .
AYF
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Crows and Seagulls were unreal as I was doing the feeding round yesterday. Serious cloud of them. Not so many today. Figure they'r back at the coast where there's less snow?
we had a neighbour that had a death wish on crows, he shot 1000s of them when they were doing no harm to anybody such as in silage fields or cow paddocks used to drive along the road firing out through the window of the car, he,s dead 10 year now and the crows are still around just as if he never existed
I'm pretty sure that kind of thing is illegal now and he has probably killed a load of small birds too:(
Arthur
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Well the frogs were right, no way this will be dry for another fortnight going by the forecast for next Friday and they will soon be there 5 weeks.
jay gatsby
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That's nature for ya. Amazing really
The primroses are out . They seem to do better where the verge trimmer traveled .
I put a couple of lentils as seats on the circle where I go for a walk . There is a nice view and it is peaceful. I used to just sit in the ditch and make a few phone calls but now I can have a bit of comfort in my old age .
I put a couple of lentils as seats on the circle where I go for a walk . There is a nice view and it is peaceful. I used to just sit in the ditch and make a few phone calls but now I can have a bit of comfort in my old age .
jay gatsby
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Where did you get the seed @Bog Man
I just got a Box in Morgan’s Nursery I think it was €19 . There are already wildflowers in the square that I sowed a few years ago and I have been mowing it in the winter and raking off the cuttings to reduce the fertility.
If you want Irish Wildflowers you may head up to Sandro in Crettyard .
http://www.wildflowers.ie/
do you think when the new cap reform is complete we,ll have to plant wildflowers and habitats to get the bps money?. we,d all have corners of fields or wet land that could be put to use for the environment
Blackwater boy
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Are you sure that’s not a jersey bull calf?
jf 850
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Very sure . Should have gone to Specsavers ?
PS, a lad is going to attempt to stuff it. He has done foxes etc already.
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It'd make a lot more sense than the bullshi&e wild bird cover and dumping builders in random spots around the farm for glas .
