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  1. Farnboro John

    Red Kite: Petition to Stop Feeding

    There are no Sea Otters in Europe. European Otter inhabits both marine and freshwater habitats. :t: As for the feeding of Sea Eagles - watch the gulls behind a trawler cleaning its catch sometime. Or the Robin following a gardener. Opportunism is not domestication. John
  2. Farnboro John

    Red Kite: Petition to Stop Feeding

    While I accept you did not explicitly mention litter, perhaps you would like to explain just what you meant us to understand by "signs of food"? I'd say there is an enormous difference between a bear performing for rewards in a zoo and a wild White-tailed Eagle going for an easy meal provided by...
  3. Farnboro John

    Red Kite: Petition to Stop Feeding

    The rodents undergo the same boom and bust cycles along the brook as they do throughout the land, fox feeding keeps them local during the bust phases but doesn't support them: I assure you ours can be watched hunting. The Red Kite feeding at Gigrin Farm not only ensures that kites survive to...
  4. Farnboro John

    Red Kite: Petition to Stop Feeding

    Ha, you said do do.... not all public servants ;) John
  5. Farnboro John

    Red Kite: Petition to Stop Feeding

    More likely to be the sort of people who buy a nice house in the country and then moan that cowpats smell and cockerels crow early in the morning. The situation is not helped by the sort of people in customer services of any kind, especially councils, who think a complaint means they have to do...
  6. Farnboro John

    Red Kite: Petition to Stop Feeding

    Feeding foxes is fairly common and is fairly well tolerated. My own neighbours are happy to have foxes nearby as the brook that runs behind our houses is something of a rodent reservoir and any pressure on their populations is a good thing. John
  7. Farnboro John

    Red Kite: Petition to Stop Feeding

    Plenty of British Army/RAF legends about "sh***-hawks (Black Kites) stealing in this manner in India as well. Not to mention what the public are pleased to call "seagulls" ;) John
  8. Farnboro John

    Red Kite: Petition to Stop Feeding

    No poison should be anywhere but in proper poison boxes. Kites could be at risk from poisoned rats though I suppose? Certainly I had to pick up some from our back garden the last time our street had an infestation. IMHO some people will complain about anything, and for that matter anything will...
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