Title: rooks, magpies etc
Description: catching. killing
takeaguess87 - April 5, 2007 02:33 PM (GMT)
just wondering what everyones different ways of catching or luring into gun is?
magpies, rooks, jackdaws etc. basic flying vermin!
hok boi - April 7, 2007 08:24 PM (GMT)
crows etc
hate albino ferrets.
we used to attatch a harness onto one and put it onto a long leash attatched to a stake in the middle of a field
wy111 - April 7, 2007 09:19 PM (GMT)
Luring corvids for shooting is not usually the best option for a keeper, traps are more commonly used, mainly because of time available, but, if I have time, a dead rabbit or at this time of the year, a stillborn lamb, with plenty of "red" showing, will soon attract them.
georgehare - April 8, 2007 05:44 PM (GMT)
i have used a stuffed fox before and decoyed them in but as wy111 said traps are the best option
Ogi - April 8, 2007 08:58 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (hok boi @ Apr 7 2007, 08:24 PM) |
crows etc
hate albino ferrets.
we used to attatch a harness onto one and put it onto a long leash attatched to a stake in the middle of a field |
Forgive my ignorance but is it legal to use live bait as a decoy?
happykeeper - April 9, 2007 04:38 PM (GMT)
As far as i am aware the only legal decoy is one in a Larsen trap for cachting corvids.
It is not legal to tether any type of animal to use as a decoy.
There was a time when people would use a ferret or even an injured pigeon to attract there wanted quarry. This method has long been stopped.HK
ramblingrose - April 11, 2007 07:40 PM (GMT)
hi, newton our keeper here uses a large trap where the crows can get in at the top but cant get out, he checkes them every day, when we go out lamping at night for bunnies we sometimes give him a couple as bait.never used live bait as im aware..
having said all the above on sunday i had to go and check and a buzzard had accedently gotten in!(he took some getting out) we have so many here they are getting so common and just to think a few years ago people were on about their decline
amatex - April 11, 2007 07:51 PM (GMT)
That sounds like a ladder trap ramblingrose.
Ogi - April 11, 2007 09:46 PM (GMT)
We have seen a big increase in the buzzard population in our area and I must say that they are a magnificent bird, so majestic in flight and tolerant in the extreme, they are continually mobbed by corvids but appear undaunted.
Last summer I saw a buzzard being mobbed by a peregrine falcon. Eventually the buzzard was forced to land in the middle of a large field, the falcon continued to mob it for several minutes more before it move off to pastures new.
takeaguess87 - April 14, 2007 09:42 PM (GMT)
theres also for the first, in my time, buzzards in my part (east antrim, NI)