country skills and objects #8

[fishfish]

heres a goodie! so guys what was this used for?

[HillBill]

Are they holes or just marks Justin, whats it made out of??

[Dartmoor navigator]

Some sort of rod rest?

[Bowlander]

Its a bird lure for trapping larks etc.

[hog]

Looks like a guard for something.

[awarner]

I was thinking more of a forming tool?

[fishfish]

Its a bird lure for trapping larks etc.

smart ****! lol i thought this would be harder!

[Toddy]

Yeah, it was now tell us how it works please ?

cheers,
M

[Harvestman]

I thought it was a saddle from a rocking horse...

[Toddy]

Sometimes one wonders about other folks childhoods


My rocking horse had a real leather saddle.........my Dad carved the horse and made the saddle out of an old briefcase

M

[havocsdad]

you wind a cord around the spindle and place the in the ground , then pull so the mirrors or glass rotate , the larks think its water and descend then you trap/shoot them as they land

[Harvestman]

Ooh, clever. I like that.


Let's not discuss my childhood until it is over, shall we? I'm only 43.

[Toddy]

I reckon you're never too old to have a good one

Poor wee larks, there surely can't be much eating in them ? That's as bad as the Spanish who come over here to shoot and end up shooting everything from robins to blackbirds...........I know of one woodland estate owner who rented them the shoot thinking they'd take out the deer nope, not a one, but every wee bird they came across

Wish we had larks instead of magpies.

cheers,
M

[Bowlander]

Use of mirrors to catch birds is illegal now, even in a larsen trap to catch the decoy.

I've never eaten small passerines but my mum had rook and sparrow pies during rationing. Better than nothing I suppose.

[Bowlander]

Oops, damn tapatalk!

[Toddy]

I mind rook pies, my Dad liked them, just like pigeons I suppose, but the local rookeries are still full of thousands of birds. Larks don't breed in such numbers do they ?

cheers,
M

[Bowlander]

I mind rook pies, my Dad liked them, just like pigeons I suppose, but the local rookeries are still full of thousands of birds. Larks don't breed in such numbers do they ?

cheers,
M

Larks do ok in the grassy uplands and on sympathetic arable farms. As open ground nesters they are vulnerable to predation. Where there are wild game bird keepers Larks do well, as well as waders like Lapwing and Stone Curlew.

[British Red]

I like lapwings - amazing flying displays at the right time of year. Curlews (we get loads) are plain old creepy with that call!

I think you can still use dazzling lights on feral pigeons....hang on...

Yep 2012 General licence

(it is permitted)
in relation to the killing or taking of
Feral Pigeon (Columba livia) only:

i. to use any device for illuminating a target or any sighting device for night shooting;

ii. to use any form of artificial lighting or any mirror or other dazzling device.

Red

[British Red]

Meant to say - thank you Mr Fish....excelent thread!