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Originally Posted by annmaria   Thank you Gill for your support. I did take an injured bird and got turned away, it was a duck, no ordinary duck . This was a very exhausted Scoter ( with a white bar on the wing) I was told it had been blown off course from the Tundra!! Any way my husband and I had to drive all the way to Martin Mere ( not sure of spelling ) they were very happy to receive it. The whole thing did cheese me off.
ALSO I do not appreciate both eeyore and Almostnormal talking down to me
I am well aware of all mthe great work the RSPB does ( That is why we pay our membership ) however I do not consider rotting swans a small matter, and if the RSPB fails to realise it had a duty to get involved then they can join the ranks of our corrupt politicians who take our money under false pretenses then do a runner when asked to do their job properly.
See you have got me going now. 
Annmaria |
as may have been said once or twice
it is not a matter of "failing" - the rspb has no power to get involved in the swan matter - the investigations dept cant do anything because the law is not being broken, the reserves teams cant do anything because they dont own the site in question , and the campaigns teams focus their limited resources on campaigns with national or international importance
Ditto with your rescued duck - I'm sure the rspb volunteers/staff care but what is a retail outlet suposed to do with an injured duck ? Martin mere have the facilities to help, but i am sure that if you had taken it to a WWT retail outlet I am equally sure that they to would have turned you away.
As regards talking down to you - I am sorry if you are offended, but if you a truly aware of "all the great work the RSPB do" then I am baffled as to how you can lump them with "corrupt politicians taking money under false pretences" because they didnt intervene in a matter where they have no power to do so.