Plastic waste

[Paul mabbott]

Perhaps this will persuade careless twitchers to reduce their plastic usage or at least take their waste home with them:
Wildlife centre stages seabird post mortem - Scotsman.com News

[Kayleigh]

You can hardly blame twichers..I saw a yacht moored at Penzance release all of their wast from the bin into the sea..I take most do this, mainly into the ocean while travelling..They are complete scum bags who do this..

[Adam Cheeseman]

I take your point on discarded rubbish Paul, but in my experience the most rubbish, plastic or otherwise, left in our countryside is by anglers. They either leave it strewn on the pegs; floating in the water; or they bag it up in a carrier bag and then launch it into the bushes - and that doesn't include tackle. In the last couple of years we have had a magpie, a blackbird, and a pigeon, hanging dead from trees, tangled up in line.

Was your point about twitchers (or birders/birdwatchers as we prefer to be called) because of the subject of the article?

Cheers,

Adam

[aeshna5]

This is a big problem for not only seabirds but other marine life such as cetaceans + turtles too.

But where are twitchers mentioned Paul?- the vast majority are careful about such things + I would say that most ignorant people disposing of their rubbish thoughtlessly have nothing to do with birding.

[Paul mabbott]

Adam & Kayleigh - my message did say "careless twitchers" - I was certainly not suggesting that all twitchers or birdies were so callous (but I've seen plenty of them distributing their rubbish around the countryside). Yes, I would agree that anglers and the general public are equally (if not more) bad about this ....

[Paul mabbott]

Quite so - see my parallel mail regarding other taxa!

Perhaps I was rather heavy-handed about birders after a couple of incidents observed at Carsington Water last week ....

Originally Posted by aeshna5

This is a big problem for not only seabirds but other marine life such as cetaceans + turtles too.

But where are twitchers mentioned Paul?- the vast majority are careful about such things + I would say that most ignorant people disposing of their rubbish thoughtlessly have nothing to do with birding.

[hobble]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

You can hardly blame twichers..I saw a yacht moored at Penzance release all of their wast from the bin into the sea..I take most do this, mainly into the ocean while travelling..They are complete scum bags who do this..

I agree most of the rubbish washed onto my local beach comes from boats, big boats, lots of foreign plastic bottles, bottle lids, the sticks from cotton buds (yuk) plastic bags etc. There should be a law against this.
In the summer months it's fishing line and hooks from fishermen who lose their tackle at high tide, to be revealed at low tide. This is I appreciate not what the fishermen want to happen. I check rocks in the summer and remove line if I find it, a hazard for wildlife and humans alike.

[honeybee]

Originally Posted by hobble

I agree most of the rubbish washed onto my local beach comes from boats, big boats, lots of foreign plastic bottles, bottle lids, the sticks from cotton buds (yuk) plastic bags etc. There should be a law against this.
In the summer months it's fishing line and hooks from fishermen who lose their tackle at high tide, to be revealed at low tide. This is I appreciate not what the fishermen want to happen. I check rocks in the summer and remove line if I find it, a hazard for wildlife and humans alike.

I remember somewhere on the East coast of Scotland not far from Edinburgh seeing a cove full of the plastic bits from cotton wool buds. Was awful. Presume where idiots flush them down the loo.
There is a nice secluded big pond/small lake nearby where people go to fish and they do leave so much rubbish, no regard for all the water birds etc there.
Fag ends are my big gripe at the mo, littering the streets, worse due to smoking ban - although i agree with it, most places (pubs, workplaces etc) have made no provision for the excess butts everywhere, no bins etc suppose should be thankful they don't choke and strangle wildlife.

[stripee]

In the small stream at bottom of the hill, there are fertiliser sacks, baling twine, plastic netting, washed down the stream from up the valley in the last heavy rains, and today in town in the river I saw all sorts of plastic....coming back I saw in the hedgerows the remains of takeaways...a mcd carton etc etc...With the stream I wade in and get out what I can, and there is a neighbour who goes along the hedgerows picking up the rubbish, but really he shouldn't have to do it

[Lincs Yellowbelly]

Originally Posted by Adam Cheeseman

I take your point on discarded rubbish Paul, but in my experience the most rubbish, plastic or otherwise, left in our countryside is by anglers. They either leave it strewn on the pegs; floating in the water; or they bag it up in a carrier bag and then launch it into the bushes - and that doesn't include tackle. In the last couple of years we have had a magpie, a blackbird, and a pigeon, hanging dead from trees, tangled up in line.

Was your point about twitchers (or birders/birdwatchers as we prefer to be called) because of the subject of the article?

Cheers,

Adam

The "anglers" that leave rubbish like that are thankfully n a minority, and are the type of people that will disguard rubbish anywhere, not just on the bank