THE HEADLINES RE SHOT WOODCOCK

FROM RAPTOR PERSECUTION SITE

WOODCOCK SHOT AND DUMPED IN CHESHIRE

In response to yesterday's blog where I wrote about the latest reported incident of the illegal fly-tipping of shot gamebirds (pheasants in Gloucestershire - here), blog reader Paul Bray posted the following image on Twitter: These are shot Woodcock that were found dumped in Crowton, Cheshire two weeks ago by Paul and his colleagues in […]

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Note from me. These are beautiful birds. I wrote this poem a few years ago.

cock of the woods

sitting  

         checks his looks in the rear view mirror

still                                                            

      window down 

                             listens

(stillness excites        feeds his hunger        feels his need) - do I need this line?

slides out of his topoftherange SUV

squeezes the door silently shut

silently taking the bestgunevermade

                                  

                   he is going tohavehisfun

treads  into the trees  listens  waits  walks  focuses

he wants it as difficult as it can ever be for      funfunfun

a target fast fleeing for life in erratic whirring flight

is soon doomed           just a trophy 

                                                                               

as the sureshotsniper ambles to his success

smashed into a patch of brambles