A few images from my visit to RSPB Burton Mere today. After watching Marsh Harrier, Avocets & 1000's of Pink-footed Geese, we had a lovely surprise when 20+ Whooper Swans flew in and settled on the scrape in front of the visitor centre.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
How disgusting @fidgetbones. As if you don't have enough to deal with. The RSPCA are useless in my experience. Donkey's years ago my dad had a squirrel rampaging around in the roof space. He phoned them and they weren't remotely interested in doing anything. I've heard various similar stories. Makes you wonder why they even exist, although they seem to be able to afford plenty of tv advertising..... If an animal rescue and a deer rescue aren't interested...words fail me. Yet some fisherman in Thailand [?] rescued an exhausted one which was swimming, had got caught in currents, and was never going to make it across the island it was heading for. A wildlife rescue chap collected it. What has happened to this country?
Frankly, if tree surgeons are even bringing their dogs to work, let alone doing that, it makes you question how responsible they are to start with.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The BBC local have picked up on it now. I've sent them some of my videos. I did warn the operational manager of the builders that if any harm came to the deer that the planners told him wasn't there, there would be ructions in the community.
I love how the developer says they're liasing with experts. Aye - then just ignoring them presumably... We had deer coming a bit closer here during lockdown. I found one dead at the private entrance to the NT garden one day - hit by a car. There's the odd small colony, here and there, including the famous one by the M77 motorway a few miles away, but they don't usually get into more inhabited areas.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm always surprised at the little colony by the motorway thriving, but there's enough habitat for them where they are, and they've obviously become accustomed to the situation. The one I found would have been from a closer herd, unless it crossed the motorway somehow... No idea how much traffic we get on the road - I doubt it would be anything like as many as yours, but many of them drive like idiots. There's a little woodland and a golf course across the other side, as well as residential, so it may have been in there, unless it came from the NT garden side which is then fields/farmland/woodland etc. That's the problem for them when the usual traffic just isn't there to keep them away though .
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
The RSPCA are useless in my experience. Donkey's years ago my dad had a squirrel rampaging around in the roof space. He phoned them and they weren't remotely interested in doing anything. I've heard various similar stories. Makes you wonder why they even exist, although they seem to be able to afford plenty of tv advertising.....
If an animal rescue and a deer rescue aren't interested...words fail me. Yet some fisherman in Thailand [?] rescued an exhausted one which was swimming, had got caught in currents, and was never going to make it across the island it was heading for. A wildlife rescue chap collected it. What has happened to this country?
Frankly, if tree surgeons are even bringing their dogs to work, let alone doing that, it makes you question how responsible they are to start with.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Aye - then just ignoring them presumably...
We had deer coming a bit closer here during lockdown. I found one dead at the private entrance to the NT garden one day - hit by a car.
There's the odd small colony, here and there, including the famous one by the M77 motorway a few miles away, but they don't usually get into more inhabited areas.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The one I found would have been from a closer herd, unless it crossed the motorway somehow...
No idea how much traffic we get on the road - I doubt it would be anything like as many as yours, but many of them drive like idiots. There's a little woodland and a golf course across the other side, as well as residential, so it may have been in there, unless it came from the NT garden side which is then fields/farmland/woodland etc.
That's the problem for them when the usual traffic just isn't there to keep them away though .
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border