Shocking new footage has emerged that shows that buzzards eat stuff.
“This is outrageous“, said Don McMoron of We Own Scotland. “Not only does this prove that buzzards eat stuff, which is bad enough, but they think they’ve got the right to eat anything that takes their fancy. That’s totally unacceptable and we’re calling on the government to convene an urgent summit to decide what buzzards can and can’t eat”.
Albert Hogburn of the Modern Poisoners Society said: “Aye, I watched the video last night. Did you see that bird in the tweed hot pants with the fantastic tits? Oh…it’s not that video you’re talking about? Er, sorry, got to go, I’ve left some milk on the boil…Er, #TeamPoison all the way, lads”.
In case there’s any doubt, the above is a parody. This, however, is not.
Raptor Persecution UK 
I wonder how Buzzards and other Raptors managed to euthanize themselves before gamekeepers came along to help them. Honestly I don’t know how they sleep at night worrying about the hundreds of thousands of years that have gone by while the Raptors and lots of other wildlife got along together just fine without the gamekeepers.
The Scottish Sun also ran the same story:
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/5021479/Buzzard-attack-sparks-osprey-conservation-fears.html
Free publicity based on utter twaddle – simples!
Its quite simple, but obviously not to many in the game shooting business, its about evolution & survival of the fittest. If a pair of osprey allow a buzzard to predate their nest then their genes are not worth passing on!
“A rational debate is urgently needed in which evidence from land and wildlife managers, such as Euan Webster, can be taken into account.” He’s a Gamekeeper, he’s one rung up from a pheasant plucker, he farms gamebirds, whatever he does has positive impacts for some species and negative impacts for others, to suggest he sets out purposely to benefit any species other than gamebirds is as big a joke as it is suggesting that someone who calls himself a wildlife manager doesn’t understand “basic” ecology. sometimes its better to keep one’s mouth shut and let people think your a fool as to open it and remove all doubt. oh and by the way, I spotted some pheasant poults eating caterpillars of the rare chequered skipper Butterfly, isn’t it time we stopped the release of invasive non native species to help our own natural species, A rational debate is urgently needed in which evidence from conservation organisations such as RSPB, the BTO and other groups who understand “basic” ecology can be taken into account. They are the people who see what is actually happening on the ground rather than simply what is documented in the shooting press and organisations.
“We believe it is the duty of Government to promote a factual consultation as this is a serious issue for Scotland’s wildlife.”
The Giant Panda, as a member of the bear family, has the digestive system of a carnivore- yet its diet is 100% herbivore.
Using this as inspiration, I put forward a research project which involved training buzzards to become vegetarian. To make this a really worthwhile project I thought that it would be useful if they could be trained to eat an aggressively invasive plant. This would help restore balance and…I thought…should make our Game Keeping intelligencia happy.
I choose that nasty woodland strangler Rhododendron ponticum.
So when I took my project to the keepers for endorsement, you could imagine my disappointment when I was told “bugger off, that our game cover, we just planted that”.
You can’t win, so why should we try, let’s just leave it to the police to sort out the problem.
Not sure I quite understood the implication of your last sentence, you did mean let’s just leave it to the police to sort out the problem didn’t you ???
I was trying to point out that we can never win a rational argument with the keepers because they live in a parallel universe where they are always right. Thankfully, the law backs our position but I suppose I was being hoplessly optimistic in implying that we rely entirely on the police.