The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Does anyone know if there is any research on the impact of gas-gun birdscarers (as
favoured by some arable farmers) on the breeding/ feeding activity of ground-nesting species
such as skylarks, partridges, lapwings and meadow pipits?

Or indeed on yellowhammers, whitethroats, linnets and any other hedgerow songbirds
that happen to be in the vicinity?

Presumably if these scarers frighten off woodpigeons, rooks and jackdaws, they do
likewise to other species. They are not selective devices.

On a explosion-related subject, is there much known about the impact on bird populations (land
and sea) of wars, past and present?

Was anything registered by any of the First World War poets such as Rupert Brooke
and Wilfred Owen? Were any of them ornithologists?

These gas-gun bird scarers are one of the things I hate about Lincs, particularly the one by Stonebridge car park, I wonder if the farmer has something against the people who live in the two houses there? It would be wrong to make noises like that in a town so why is it allowed in the country?

In one of the biggest agricultural counties in the country, farmers need to protect their crops from the ravages of Wood Pigeons in particular and gas guns are proved to be effective. From what I read in the paper in towns and cities, particularly Birmingham, they use real guns. I know which I prefer!

Oh, for the days of the Scarecrow (AKA Worzel Gummage)!