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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KnockerNorton" data-source="post: 1203733" data-attributes="member: 66452">Aren't we supposed to be coming to an entente cordial with gamekeepers? Or do you want to alienate the people who actually manage the landscape we all use? It's important to encourage good relations with other land-users. A gamekeeper finding out that a birder has messed with his work wont exactly make him receptive when someone asks to do an Atlas survey in his woods. I'd have hated it on a personal level, but I'd have left it for the sake of good relations and respect for the law and a bloke's job. Tamper with the larsens and people might turn to more discrete methods, like pole traps or poison...</blockquote>