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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pete Mella" data-source="post: 1455447" data-attributes="member: 47236">You replied to my post just before I deleted if for perhaps being a bit too argumentative, and unnecessary based on previous posts. And of course you're right, lesser people wouldn't have thought twice and just done it. It just worries me a little that if the OP had not had such an informed response from the members on here, or if the post had been hidden away in the wrong subforum and not seen, or put on one of the less informed bird forums out there, then it sounds like he/she was seriously thinking of getting their shotgun out, even though it's quite obvious to anyone who has the slightest knowledge of how birds of prey hunt that this is clearly not a peregrine (and that it would be illegal and ethically very wrong even if it was). What if the posters here had said "yes it is peregrine, and we can't think of any way of deterring it"?I do understand that it must be very frustrating if a business is going down the pan due to predation, and I'm in no way anti-farming (which is one of the reasons I deleted my above post, as it may have looked that way), but even suggesting "extreme measures" for raptor predation on a birdwatcher's forum isn't going to win anyone any friends! To me the OP reads "if you birdwatchers don't tell me a way I can deter it quickly I'm going to shoot it", effectively making it so we're effectively acting as the defendents in a trial, and begging for a peregrine's life...</blockquote>

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