I'm with you Polly
My 5 acre plot is home or playground to the following wildlife. Rabbits (shoot em, snare em, ferrets whatever it takes) Hares ( don't touch them) Pheasants (open season with the gun and the pup loves chasing them too) grey partridge (don't touch them either) mice (bait in tunnel and store) stoats (like them - they kill rabbits) buzzards (see stoats comment - do not believe all you read about them not taking live prey - have seen it on numerous occassions), pigeons (god bless the buzzard and the sparrowhawk), deer (get left alone), rooks, crows and hoodies(all fair game).
If I didn't contol the above I would not have lasted my first season. Whilst I can appreciate some people may strongly disagree with my point of view, unless they care to finance the entire 5 acre plot being rabbit fenced and caged from above, I will continue on my merry way, whistling all the while, as I tuck into my next rabbit or pheasant. If I shoot rooks and don't eat them, does that make me worse than HFW ?
