PandionMlt
Well-known member
Ok let me make a couple of things clear:
I wrote the way i wrote because this forum is seeing a lot of waste of space and time discussing a couple of cygnets and gulls when there are far more pressing concerns to talk about.
A lot of space and time is also being wasted discussing fledglings falling out of nests (which you insist upon calling "baby birds", makes them more cute does it?) which should be left to their own devices in the first place.
I wrote that way because i am sick and tired of hearing that people like these yobs should be strung up, shot at, placed in stocks, drawn and quartered and generally abused. I agree that such behaviour leads to irresponsible citizens later on in life, or maybe not so later on (shooting children in the streets etc etc) but really, too much is too much. Wishing all that on a fellow human those not make you a bigger animal lover.
Dafi was correct in saying that banning air guns will do no good and was making an excellent point, before he mentioned the stocks.
Mary Evelyn's previous posts shows that she is the emotive type that is not worth arguing with.
I hope that you did not get me wrong... being a maltese birder i have seen countless of dead and mutilated birds by lead shot, and in a couple of weeks time i will be out there in the field aiding our police in trying to prevent the killing of anything from Short-Toed Eagles, honey buzzards, harriers and falcons down to hirundines, hoopoes, golden orioles and rollers, with a few herons thrown in for good measure, from being shot not by air gun wielding yobs but by grown men with semi-automatic repeater shotguns loaded with heavy gauge pellets.
In the face of all this, i reitrate that a couple of gulls, cygnets and fledgling pale in comparison.......
Edit: P.S. i apologize about the pest thing, its a word that should not be used.
I wrote the way i wrote because this forum is seeing a lot of waste of space and time discussing a couple of cygnets and gulls when there are far more pressing concerns to talk about.
A lot of space and time is also being wasted discussing fledglings falling out of nests (which you insist upon calling "baby birds", makes them more cute does it?) which should be left to their own devices in the first place.
I wrote that way because i am sick and tired of hearing that people like these yobs should be strung up, shot at, placed in stocks, drawn and quartered and generally abused. I agree that such behaviour leads to irresponsible citizens later on in life, or maybe not so later on (shooting children in the streets etc etc) but really, too much is too much. Wishing all that on a fellow human those not make you a bigger animal lover.
Dafi was correct in saying that banning air guns will do no good and was making an excellent point, before he mentioned the stocks.
Mary Evelyn's previous posts shows that she is the emotive type that is not worth arguing with.
I hope that you did not get me wrong... being a maltese birder i have seen countless of dead and mutilated birds by lead shot, and in a couple of weeks time i will be out there in the field aiding our police in trying to prevent the killing of anything from Short-Toed Eagles, honey buzzards, harriers and falcons down to hirundines, hoopoes, golden orioles and rollers, with a few herons thrown in for good measure, from being shot not by air gun wielding yobs but by grown men with semi-automatic repeater shotguns loaded with heavy gauge pellets.
In the face of all this, i reitrate that a couple of gulls, cygnets and fledgling pale in comparison.......
Edit: P.S. i apologize about the pest thing, its a word that should not be used.
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