Would you bluddy believe it.

[Lord Braykewynde]

Someone is trying to test my patience

Since last Sunday the one pitch next to us has been out of use. Between us and that pitch I'd erected my
bird feeder and when no squirrels were trying to get a feed it was alive with birds with as many as 16 on the
ground underneath feeding on the droppings

Yesterday the warden removed the cone and put up a 'disabled pitch' sign.
This is a separate issue because why would anyone need a disabled pitch? It's a no facility site and the pitch
is midway between the service points

Anyway, back to my original point.
After coming back from Spalding a caravan had taken the pitch. Not long after I noticed a mangy moggy crouched by the treeline.
I was about to go out and scare it off when I noticed it had a lead on which was clipped to the vans EHU cable which in affect
gave it a running lead.
I couldn't see the point in fattening up the birds at great expence for someones mangy moggy to kill them so moved the bird feeders
to the other side of the caravan.
The birds were soon back, that was until a caravan arrived on the pitch this afternoon and they too had a manky moggy.
I must admit that I put our two dogs on a longer lead hoping they would chase them off but anything bigger than a rat and they tremble.
Why does anyone want to take a predator onto a site with high bird life and give it plenty of scope to attack the birds is beyond me
especially as they could see the feeder already in situ

 

[Gagakev]

Why does anyone want to take a predator onto a site with high bird life and give it plenty of scope to attack the birds is beyond me
especially as they could see the feeder already in situ

Hey LB how are they going to know you have already have a feeder in place

Any way, just a consolation note I stayed on a site in Dorset once and a couple there use to walk there two on LEADS

 

[Timbo1]

Consider yourself fortunate LB that yours is only a temporary situation. We live next door to three cats - well in fact we refer to them as SMOLs, the last three letters standing for Machine On Legs. Not a day goes by that we don't open the street door to go to work to be faced with heaps of the proverbial on the front grass and its often on the back grass. Every morning we are woken to their wailing at 5.30am/6am where they are never let inside and cry cry cry, like a newsreel. Its not just us, surrounding neighbours as well are blighted by one neighbours selfishness. C'est la vie I'm afraid, at least you can hitch up and move. I'd be very interested to know whether the caravan owners when holidaying these cats actually have to pick up on site? I'd hate to pitch my awning on a load of cats c...
Cheers.

 

[Dustydog]

Never mind LB
Just think about all that money you'll save on bird food and of course less mess from the bird droppings.

If it's any consolation a sparrow hawk has taken up residence in our area and I haven't filled the bird feeders for three days now!
Have you tried that cat repellant spray?

 

[graham_somersham]

Well without the bird feeder you will not get the rats at night scurrying around picking up the food that the birds and squirrels have dropped. How I just love people who scatter food about campsites and then complain that they have seen a rat near their caravan or trying to nest under their awning mudwall. A good mix of cats and dogs on a site would be fun as their owners would provide hours of entertainment for everyone else as they argue and scrap about the space their furry predators must have

 

[Surfer]

Our cat always comes with us wherever we go. If we had been pitched next to you it woudl have saved us a fortune in cat food for the weekend. LOL!
Actually she is 16 and doesn't catch birds unless they fly into her mouth and then she would let them go.

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

Hey LB how are they going to know you have already have a feeder in place

By opening their eyes

because if they kept them closed they would almost have walked into it

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

Well without the bird feeder you will not get the rats at night scurrying around picking up the food that the birds and squirrels have dropped. How I just love people who scatter food about campsites and then complain that they have seen a rat near their caravan or trying to nest under their awning mudwall. A good mix of cats and dogs on a site would be fun as their owners would provide hours of entertainment for everyone else as they argue and scrap about the space their furry predators must have

You had better contact the CC then because most wardens on sites I've been on have bird feeders

as for rats I've yet to see one on a site despite the fact that we all live within 20 metres of rats.
Regarding these moggies being on site is a bit of a surprise considering the RSPB have a large reserve there and moggies are the biggest killers of wild birds.
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/cats-predation.html#cr

..... and as for the food attracting rats I'm doing something good for conservation by providing food for the red kites

Unfortunately red kites wont attack cats

http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/t/toplodge/index.aspx

 

[graham_somersham]

..... and as for the food attracting rats I'm doing something good for conservation by providing food for the red kites

Unfortunately red kites wont attack cats

http://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/t/toplodge/index.aspx

Ah you need Sea Eagles for that....

 

[Bri2]

Those mankey moggys, was probably someones pride and joy and has for preditors, you should see my 11 year old Golden Retriever when she sees a rabbit!!!!! Off she goes on the chase, trips up every 10 yards and goes totaly deaf. NOW thats what I call a preditor.

 

[Martin24]

An electronic thingy has sorted them in our front garden!! try taking one of those away with you and that'll sort the horrid things!!

 

[Damian]

Quote "An electronic thingy has sorted them in our front garden"

So where did you get your Tazer?

 

[Martin24]

that would be telling!!