Ruddy Duck Cull: Poll of LBC members opinions

Andy Sharp · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:46 am

I think if you remove all the pheasant food from the wild bird's food chain it would be a harsh reminder that we have stripped the land of natural food.

Robert Hardy · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:39 am

Terence Whalin wrote:

wildlife has always adapted pretty well without our so called well meaning interventions, it is us as a species that is the problem. we kill off native wildlife to protect the things we then kill for FUN OR SO CALLED SPORT. stoat weasel heron otters all birds of prey cormorants jays corvids in general ruddy duck woodcock snipe ducks in general the list is endless, fruit farmers with finches etc. always some pointed interest group that get a licence to CONTROL SO CALLED PESTS, RING NECKED PARAKEET. GULLS MESS AND NOISE. you should see cleethorpes on a saturday night with the larger louts. grebes goosander merganser after all they actually eat fish. I SAY VERY LOUDLY NO ERADICATION [-X

SHAME ON US ALL AS A SPECIES, :evil:

TERRY WHALIN

Fully agree and very well put too.
Rob.

Geoff Williams · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:29 pm

Thanks to everyone who voted, it's been interesting. 76% of birders voted that the cull should be stopped. It would be good if the government took notice of us, but it's very unlikely they will, At least they are only wasting £200,000 to try and finish off the rest of the ducks.
I reckon it would be best if nobody mentioned the whereabouts of the Ruddy Ducks and then the government could save face and say the cull has been a success and quietly stop it.
Even if they get the population down to single figures, with the few pairs surviving and movements from survivors in Europe and who knows immigrants from America and Iceland with luck we should again have a healthy population in 30 or 40 years time and further on into the future a new hybrid White-headed Duck/Ruddy Duck species could be created giving us a new tick

John T Goy · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:30 pm **Posts:** 2385

Well said Geoff :!:

Max

Paul French · **Posted:** Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:27 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrls ... _102791733

Anyone on here a gardener using this stuff?

John T Goy · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:30 pm **Posts:** 2385

Paul French wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/mar/21/2?goback=%2Egde_1892828_member_102791733

Anyone on here a gardener using this stuff?

Geoff Williams · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:47 am

Paul French wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/mar/21/2?goback=%2Egde_1892828_member_102791733

Anyone on here a gardener using this stuff?

Are you suggesting we should use it to feed to the Ruddy Ducks? :shock:

John T Goy · **Joined:** Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:30 pm **Posts:** 2385

Surely not, even I never thought he meant that [-X

Max

Paul French · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:12 pm

Geoff Williams wrote:

Paul French wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/mar/21/2?goback=%2Egde_1892828_member_102791733

Anyone on here a gardener using this stuff?

Are you suggesting we should use it to feed to the Ruddy Ducks? :shock:

Err, no.

It was simply to illustrate that there a lot of things that most of us do every day that are a lot more damaging to the environment than the killing of English Ruddy Ducks.

Geoff Williams · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:35 pm

Paul French wrote:

Geoff Williams wrote:

Paul French wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/mar/21/2?goback=%2Egde_1892828_member_102791733

Anyone on here a gardener using this stuff?

Are you suggesting we should use it to feed to the Ruddy Ducks? :shock:

Err, no.

It was simply to illustrate that there a lot of things that most of us do every day that are a lot more damaging to the environment than the killing of English Ruddy Ducks.

My reply was slightly tongue in cheek, however I'm sure the Ruddy Ducks wouldn't agree with you.

Derick Evans · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:35 am

Terence Whalin wrote:

derrick, absolute tripe, terry whalin

Hi Terence.
Its only one 'R' in Derick thanks and apologies for the long delay in replying. Big PC problems, now resolved.

Which comment was tripe then? That there are only 120 birds left. or Yes! They should be exterminated.

Terence Whalin · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:25 am

they should be left alone, natural selection, let nature take its course. let the french, spanish and generally the continent control them if they want to, they are more likely to enjoyed the procedure and take their minds off honey buzzards, turtle doves and the like, terry whalin

Freddy Johnson · **Posted:** Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:41 am

For those members who now wish to put the Ruddy Duck saga to bed and yet (surprisingly) still have some reserve mental energy to spend on the subject, an interesting full-page article by Stephen Moss, which may be an appropriate 'final word', appears in today's "Daily Mail"......just google : "A Ruddy Outrage !"

Freddy

Derick Evans · **Posted:** Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:57 pm

Freddy Johnson wrote:

For those members who now wish to put the Ruddy Duck saga to bed and yet (surprisingly) still have some reserve mental energy to spend on the subject, an interesting full-page article by Stephen Moss, which may be an appropriate 'final word', appears in today's "Daily Mail"......just google : "A Ruddy Outrage !" Freddy

Hi Freddy.
I wonder. Does Sir Peter Scott get much of a mention (The Blame) for interfering with Terry's natural selection.

Terence Whalin · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:46 pm

OH MY WORD :shock:

finally in my 67th year i have been elevated to my true status :oops:

, in future it is MY theory on natural selection not a certain mr darwin. i hope you all will continue to be my friends and this new status will not change me in any way when dealing with you mortals, :lol:

terry whalin

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