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10-02-2011, 11:10 AM
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It does not matter that the settling for the night roosting displays have made the Starlings firm favourites, there are always the detractors; Starlings like 'swarm of locusts' say farmers - Telegraph
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10-02-2011, 11:17 AM
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Farmer's will require a subsidy to fit netting over the entrances to their dutch barns. If a single starling gets through, they will be bleating for compensation. 
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10-02-2011, 11:24 AM
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crikey 7 inches of poo  have brought down major branches ! come on are they for real, should imagine it was the strong winds we have just had, but lets blame the starlings, do these people really think that anyone in the right mind would believe that, i certainly dont, even if it is acidic i dont think it would happen as fast as that, rossy. |
10-02-2011, 11:39 AM
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"Farmers are demanding to be allowed to shoot huge flocks of starlings that are eating valuable animal feed in alarming quantities after unusually high numbers arrived in this country" How the hell do they propose to "shoot" a flock of starlings numbering "tens or even hundreds of thousands"? Fuel-air bombs? Gatling guns? Massed ranks of Job-seekers armed with shotguns? Or just pick them off one by one with a .22?
Absurd. Another month and they'll all be gone anyway.
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10-02-2011, 02:21 PM
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Showed the murmerations on Points West BBC 1 last night.Farmers complaining about droppings on rails by the feed in the cow sheds.Made a lot off mess from what I saw .The cows do as well, but no complaints about that.
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