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" statistics ". ( http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...s-1812915.html ) Sorry, Kathy. Maybe why no one else is sabre rattling over this (none too) " Independent " piece of Sunday Reportage ? Something a little less biased, next time, perhaps ....?

Quote: Originally Posted by PaulE the reports seem to be by organisations such as the rspca and the rspb etc are you suggesting that they are lying also a quick search on google reveals a surprising amount of attacks by your gentle staffordshire bull terriers including a number of children killed and perhaps the lack of waxwings is due to the fact that birds can fly cheers The RSPB manipulating statitics to suit their own agenda, never

Mabye i hear about one other impact on water bird species:-) The plane of collar collector (for the birds and insect) look as water area and when the bird(mainly duck)set down so crashed the collector and daied. But i don´t now when is this possible Thank

Am I alone in detecting some very heavy axe grinding going one here? Talk of an 'agenda' (for what?) on the part of the RSPB/RSPCA is verging on the comic when the critics here so clearly seem to have one of their own. Although, for obvious and not necessarily for any sinister reasons, all organisations will want to 'spin' (and I'd put it no more strongly than that) statistics to suit their purposes, I doubt that...

Not really, but I'm proud to say I have never used chemicals in my garden when nature does a good enough job on its own. And my neighbours keep asking how I have such a nice garden, I let nature look after it!

Quote: Originally Posted by Ditch That'd be about where I'm coming from, John. Winter 2002, there were a string of 'Reports' of Waxwings, all over Hull. Yet, there were no waxwings connected with as a result of these reports. There can be a gulf between 'Reports' and Crimes too. I've walked a Staffordshire Bull Terrier down the road and had people yelling at me that my " Rottweiler " was...

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffMoh Thanks for the link, Kathy. I somehow missed the article. Hope you're not too upset by the responses by Ditch et al. They probably don't believe climate change is happening either! Jeff So if someone disagrees with you on one subject, you feel you can label them on others that are unconnected?

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffMoh Thanks for the link, Kathy. I somehow missed the article. Hope you're not too upset by the responses by Ditch et al. They probably don't believe climate change is happening either! Jeff Hi Jeff Thank you for your reply. Not feeling too bad here. It is personel how people feel about the subject of Climate change - my OH does not believe in climate change at all but I do. Differing opinions all...

Hello, I wondered if anyone would be interested in this lecture. Birds & Pesticides: Is the threat of a Silent Spring really behind us? It is an annual event called the Rachel Carson Memorial Lecture organised by a charity called PAN-UK (Pesticide Action Network.) This year PAN UK present Dr. Pierre Mineau who will discuss the highs and lows of the ongoing struggle to protect our feathered friends from the ravages of modern pest...

I wondered where my lighter had gone That's disgusting... and in one of the most remote places on Earth!