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A near miss for the Great Spotted Woodpecker (1 Viewer)

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Pity about the comments at the bottom of the same page!

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Kathy
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Dare I say it - typical Daily Mail readers?

Re. the photo, I'm sure I've seen the picture elsewhere, someone uploaded a painting of the photo, I thought it was on here, but can't be sure. This was a few weeks back.
 
Here's his painting of the photo: http://bit.ly/ccQmsa

I'm still racking my brain about where I saw it, I'm sure it was some form of forum where he was just casually showing off some paintings and this was one of them.
 
sorry, I think people lookign to have their faith in humanity shake shoudl read the comments theirselves but this really is taking the biscuit!


I agree with you. You point out clearly that whilst our song bird population is in decline the hawk lobby that controls the RSPB continues to ignore the basic principals of humankind. That is that we have always controlled whatever animal to suit our needs. Hawks are no different up to now that is, since the hawk lobby that controls the RSPB refuse to see the evidence staring them in the face and by their own traffic signal records the sparrowhawk and co. are in NO DANGER whilst the birds that we as humans prefer to see and hear, ie. songbirds of all sorts are in severe danger.
 
sorry, I think people lookign to have their faith in humanity shake shoudl read the comments theirselves but this really is taking the biscuit!


I agree with you. You point out clearly that whilst our song bird population is in decline the hawk lobby that controls the RSPB continues to ignore the basic principals of humankind. That is that we have always controlled whatever animal to suit our needs. Hawks are no different up to now that is, since the hawk lobby that controls the RSPB refuse to see the evidence staring them in the face and by their own traffic signal records the sparrowhawk and co. are in NO DANGER whilst the birds that we as humans prefer to see and hear, ie. songbirds of all sorts are in severe danger.

Who's this "Hawk Lobby" then? Can I join? Is it expensive? :-O
 
What people like that person don't realise is that having even a slight biological education would tell you that healthy populations of raptors could not exist without healthy populations of prey, so if they're seeing lots of raptors then there'll be lots of smaller birds and mammals around too.
 
Dare I say it - typical Daily Mail readers?

Re. the photo, I'm sure I've seen the picture elsewhere, someone uploaded a painting of the photo, I thought it was on here, but can't be sure. This was a few weeks back.

For the record Robert writes and illustrates an occasional column in the Yorkshire Post Country Review supplement and the picture accompanied his column in March (I think) this year. I posted a link in BF to the Yorkshire Post site showing the picture at that time.
Love the Daily Mail...yesterday's news tomorrow;)
 
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