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[Gagman]

Yes, the hunting season has started again! What do Tourists think,while trying to walk in the forests or outer regions of villages.
These hunters are a rule unto themselves,they are not respecting the code and shooting everything that flies,crawls,slides and walks.
Sunday,we found a dead Barn owl in our backyard.(shot dead of course).
Organic farmers need sparrows to eat the pests off their crops,these sparrows are shot! The Barn owl keeps the mice at bay.
Should the Authorities find a location far away from residential areas.
Paralimni,Cape Greco and Agios Antonis,all had shooters banging away at 5.30am.
At dusk,they started shooting the small bats.
These men don't like confrontation,they leave their rubbish where ever they go and faciate near Olive trees and leave this mess for Tourists to see.
Each season,migratory birds are shot and left to rot,for what reason?
Why don't they save up all their money,instead of illegal gambling and take a trip to Australia,to cull Kangaroos and Rabbits and get paid for it!
Lets see,what to all have to say about this subject?

[Get Real!]

...they leave their rubbish where ever they go and faciate near Olive trees and leave this mess for Tourists to see.

If “faciate” is the act of producing feces, then “defecate” must be the act of producing “defes” which is a synonym of Efes!

By George, I think you’re onto something!

[Get Real!]

Sorry, back on-topic…

I too generally dislike hunters and hunting, especially on a small island like Cyprus where wildlife is so limited in both species and number… I can hardly see any birds flying about these days when I walk out in the garden but perhaps the presence of my mother in law, who has a remarkable resemblance to a bird of prey, has something to do with it…

[Gagman]

Thanks 'Get Real', I probably have few errors in my topic.Perhaps I should have used the sentence..... and they shit near oliive trees and leave their shit and paper for Tourists to see.
I admire that your were up so early in morning.Keep up the good work mate!

[CBBB]

The little birds taste nice though.

[Milo]

Sorry, back on-topic…

I too generally dislike hunters and hunting, especially on a small island like Cyprus where wildlife is so limited in both species and number… I can hardly see any birds flying about these days when I walk out in the garden but perhaps the presence of my mother in law, who has a remarkable resemblance to a bird of prey, has something to do with it…

Much more money would be forthcoming from tourist 'twitchers' the birdlife in Cyprus is incredible, its so very shortsighted to have such a long hunting season to allow others to kill without any proper training and certainly not policed. Dogs are already running around abandoned this is another bad side of some of the hunting fraternity.

But the most dangerous one imho is that these guys who in most cases cannot shoot straight walk around wherever they wish shooting EVERY day from 5.30 onwards making the majority of other peoples lives a misery. The 500 metre distance is ridiculous, in earshot is ridiculous, why minorities always get their way anywhere in the world beats me

As for pickled birds although supposedly illegal, would,nt it, as its such a 'delicacy', be easier to breed and farm these for those that just 'have' to eat them.

Save millions of birds lives to eat maybe a few thousand makes better sense does,nt it? Thankfully more and more people especially bird organisations are getting much more proactive so one day in the future it will be not the done thing. And majorities tend to get their way eventually.

Hunters in some cases are not nice people as seen in the news last spring and in my case when we asked a hunter to step further from our garden boundary as the pellets landed on the table we ate at, he very bravely came back with five others and confronted us, he was swiftly dealt with.

These people are exactly the same the world over imo, MORONS.

To find pleasure in killing something dead imo is very very odd

I hope we have another long WET Winter as they get fed up of that trudging around in wet fields is,nt much fun, so I,m praying for rain

[SKI-preo]

The hunters should be strictly licenced and supervised...to hunt back packers eating out of Dumpsters.