suffolkscoob

... for these Scum

THEFT OF OSPREY EGGS IN PERTHSHIRE Police believe that the men concerned are keen on the 'high profile' nests and may well have an attempt at nests on nature reserves. We are now asked to keep an eye out for the following cars: Red Astra B255 BCN White Maestro H767 VAO Brown Nissan Sunny B413 FRG (especially keen on info on this car) Tayside police are on 01382 223200 Dave Dick at RSPB is on 0131 3116500

Mods, sorry to post this in General , but would be grateful if you could leave for a short time before moving.


Many thanks

Bill

chiark

Turds. Have you x-posted in Scottish too? Might be worthwhile putting a link up.

Great~taste~Bloke

this is bad and affects all regions.
Matthew

TurboBoost

I got offered some Peregrine Falcon eggs in a pub once. They tasted horrible, couldn't see what the fuss was about. Not worth the money IMO.

Harry_Boy

Not that funny Mate....

suffolkscoob

Cross posted in Scotland as suggested.

Mods please feel free to move to Non-Scooby related.

Thanks again

Bill

cement man

I heard it was probably done by collecters, being as the two sites were surrounded by razorwire which they cut these rissoles must be reeeeal serious collecters,are birds eggs that valuable,I thought egg collecting was a victorian pastime,scum bags.

suffolkscoob

cement man,

It's a bit bizarre really, these guys target "high profile" nests, i.e. well protected ones. It's like they get a kick out of beating the security.

So it's probably not only Ospreys they'll be after, but Golden Eagles, Golden Orioles and others.


Egg collecting was certainly a Victorian past-time but is still thriving now. Strangely it is almost unheard of anywhere else in Europe, and seems to be a peculiarly British problem.

edited coz my spelling is crap

[Edited by suffolkscoob - 5/13/2002 11:34:20 PM]

Brendan Hughes

Suffolkscoob - having lived in France, Belgium and Portugal, the reason it is British is because the rest of Europe have already shot to extinction anything that flies .

Maz-old

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