On 29/12/2014 00:21, Christina Websell wrote:
"Phil Cook" wrote in message
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On 28/12/2014 20:25, Christina Websell wrote:

I don't care what you say, I'm not going to feed birds in my garden while
I
have sparrowhawks here that will pick them off the birdtable.


If you are willing to skew the prey/predator balance by feeding the prey
you can have no complaints when the predator takes some of the birds.

I wish I could attract a peregrine by feeding the pigeons.

If you like to see a predator killing the birds you've attracted, well, it
must be a man thing is all I can say.
Actually, I won't be kind to you, it's sick if you deliberately do it and
it's why I've stopped feeding on the birdtable when I know the sparrowhawk
will come. I'm setting up the small birds to be killed.

It's not sick it's nature.

You are the sick one in wanting to do a sparrowhawk harm. "I so wish
they were not protected."
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Phil Cook