More shot pheasants have been found dumped by the side of the road, this time thrown into a hedge next to a lay-by on Old London Road, near Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
This latest shameful fly-tipping incident was discovered on Monday 15th January 2024 and has been reported to Stroud Council.
Thanks to the blog reading dog walker who sent in these photos:
Regular blog readers will know that this is a common and widespread illegal practice.
Previous reports include dumped birds found in Cheshire (here), Scottish borders (here), Norfolk (here), Perthshire (here), Berkshire (here), North York Moors National Park (here) and some more in North York Moors National Park (here) and even more in North Yorkshire (here), Co. Derry (here), West Yorkshire (here), and again in West Yorkshire (here), N Wales (here), mid-Wales (here), Leicestershire (here), Lincolnshire (here), Somerset (here), Derbyshire’s Peak District National Park (here), Suffolk (here), Leicestershire again (here), Somerset again (here), Liverpool (here), even more in North Wales (here) even more in Wales, again (here), in Wiltshire (here) in Angus (here), in Somerset again (here), once again in North Yorkshire (here), yet again in West Yorkshire (here), yet again in mid-Wales (here), even more in mid-Wales (here), and more in Derbyshire (here).
Ironically, I see the Countryside Alliance has been expressing its concern and ‘alarm’ over fly-tipping crimes:
‘Fly-tipping and littering must not be seen as a victimless crime: it is a scourge on our natural environment and a blight on the farms these criminals still too often target‘.
and
‘We have long campaigned on this issue and will be calling on all parties in the run up to the election to take this crime seriously’.
I look forward to seeing the Countryside Alliance draw attention to the criminal fly-tipping activities of those in the game-shooting industry.
Raptor Persecution UK 
If I were you, I certainly wouldn’t be holding my breath that the Countryside Alliance will draw any attention at all to the criminal fly-tipping activities of those in the game-shooting industry.
Otherwise, they would have done so long ago when this fly-tipping of pheasants started and done something to stop it, or at least reduce its occurrence greatly. All rhetoric, no action: as always
This dispicable practice has to stop and those responsible punished.ill bet that these unfortunate birds were shot with lead shot which was banned some time ago ,surely these shoots can be monitored?
[Ed: It’s still legal to use lead shot for shooting gamebirds]
An irony bypass is a qualifying procedure for all Countryside Alliance spokespersons, apparently.
Flytipping yes, but these bird carcasses have obviously been stripped of their edible breast meat, so not so much a waste of food.