You might be shocked, but you shouldn’t be!

If you’re new to raptor persecution, please check out my previous post and read the RSPB’s Bird Crime Report for 2023.

Still in need of some damming evidence of what the shooting fraternity will tell you doesn’t occur anymore then check out this Channel 4 news report which recently aired.

If that wasn’t enough some shooting organisations are still trying to claim, “It’s OK, raptor populations are booming in the UK” and “This doesn’t prove anything”. Yeah of course three guys (gamekeepers) who are at a known Hen Harrier winter roost site with guns and optics discussing which ones are clean (not wearing a satellite tag) and pinpointing one that isn’t, a shot is fired and then congratulating the individual aren’t doing anything illegal - pull the other one!

I’m surprised the shooting rabble hasn’t rung up Channel 4 asking for a copy and permission to use it in their next seminar on best practices for killing a bird of prey because it looked like these guys have just given the RSPB Investigations team an absolute masterclass!

Watch this space for any legal outcome…….