Although we have not posted for a while, much sett checking / surveying / mooching about and office-based stuff has been going on. Yesterday on Sunday 18th April 2021 a sab came across some lads (one of whom hunts with the Croome & West Warwickshire Hunt) shooting pigeons and crows from behind a hide near Dumbleton. They had put out plastic decoy birds to attract the real birds to their deaths.

A long and civil discussion ensued, they immediately broke their guns, and they said that the birds were eating all the wheat seed that had been sown. It was then a matter of looking up the law on licenses for shooting, which took some time to ascertain. Eventually they packed up and no more birds were shot. The saddest thing is that not only did 16 birds lose their lives, but they may well have young who will now starve.