It is a bit strange Jo. Most other fora I use you just click the quote button, and the relevant post appears inside quote brackets in your new message form. Ah well, to each their own!
Wobbly
Wobby, this forum is special
Hit the quote button in the bottom right window of the post you want to quote. You have to put your mouse into that general area for the icon to even appear! (Heck why make it easy)
Then after you hit it, you'll see it changes to "unquote". Left click again. (I know it's illogical to click "unquote")
THEN go to the "submit reply" box and only then click on the far right inverted commas icon "
Your quote will now be in the reply box. Click below it... but past the point where it's indented and that's all there is to it Except of course when it doesn't work .... because that happens
Hostafan, so you hate crows as well as squirrels and cats? Does the black list of nature ever end with you?
I would check to see if they are rooks too. They do indeed eat anything! Just put up a new squirrel proof feeder just to stop a family of rooks eating the whole lot in a day and the little birds can finally get a look-in. Good luck with your apples happycottontail.
Not that pets are nature? Hey ho... if you insist.
So being in Devon, you don't like birds of prey either? You've a lot of gorgeous birds of prey there. There are a lot of birds that eat birds, animals that eat birds, even deer have been reported in eating some birds and the wonderful hedgehog will eat bird eggs. I think you'll find that it is actually just a part of nature and the life cycle and not really for us to interfere.
Nature is definitely red in tooth and claw. The thing that upset Victorians most about Darwin's Theories was that he showed that Nature does not care. Life for all those creatures is one long struggle.
Having said that there are some creatures which can go struggle somewhere else, other than my garden.
NorthernLass - the rooks here are a menace, and I have never seen dead crow decoys as you suggest. Any idea where they can be found?
We have a large (getting larger every year) rookery on the edge of the village. The birds come onto our birdfeeders mob-handed and attack the feeders until they fall to the ground and spill the seed (at best) or break them (at worst).
If you don't like what I say, use the handy ignore button. You're just words on a screen, I can live with it.
FYI We have a 0.8 acre lake with resident mallard, snipe and coots, we have an entire rabbit warren on our land and at least one family of foxes.
We also have buzzards so you're wrong, again , on the birds of prey front.
How does your garden compare?
We have 4 acres of woodland which is totally untouched and left to nature.
And how facile of you to try to contradict "pets aren't nature" do pets go out and find their own food? No, Do they make their own nests/dens, or whatever ? No, do they soley feed their own young? No,
Posts
Wobby, this forum is special
Hit the quote button in the bottom right window of the post you want to quote. You have to put your mouse into that general area for the icon to even appear! (Heck why make it easy)
Then after you hit it, you'll see it changes to "unquote". Left click again. (I know it's illogical to click "unquote")
THEN go to the "submit reply" box and only then click on the far right inverted commas icon "
Your quote will now be in the reply box. Click below it... but past the point where it's indented and that's all there is to it
Except of course when it doesn't work .... because that happens 
Hostafan, so you hate crows as well as squirrels and cats? Does the black list of nature ever end with you?
I would check to see if they are rooks too. They do indeed eat anything! Just put up a new squirrel proof feeder just to stop a family of rooks eating the whole lot in a day and the little birds can finally get a look-in. Good luck with your apples happycottontail.
no blighty, that's about it. I'm in love with the rest of nature, ( not that pets are nature, obviously)
crows, squirrels and cats all have something in common, they kill birds , what's to like about that?
Not that pets are nature? Hey ho... if you insist.
So being in Devon, you don't like birds of prey either? You've a lot of gorgeous birds of prey there. There are a lot of birds that eat birds, animals that eat birds, even deer have been reported in eating some birds and the wonderful hedgehog will eat bird eggs. I think you'll find that it is actually just a part of nature and the life cycle and not really for us to interfere.
Nature is definitely red in tooth and claw. The thing that upset Victorians most about Darwin's Theories was that he showed that Nature does not care. Life for all those creatures is one long struggle.
Having said that there are some creatures which can go struggle somewhere else, other than my garden.
NorthernLass - the rooks here are a menace, and I have never seen dead crow decoys as you suggest. Any idea where they can be found?
We have a large (getting larger every year) rookery on the edge of the village. The birds come onto our birdfeeders mob-handed and attack the feeders until they fall to the ground and spill the seed (at best) or break them (at worst).
We tend to use real dead ones but you can decoys from most farm suppliers.
Found this online and it's what I meant:
http://birdsoff.com.au/dead-crow-decoy-visual-deterrent/