A week or so ago in the Cambridge News, this chap had written in a letter which they published having a right go at the use of gasguns in fields to scare of pigeons and other birds that eat the crops close to/in the same filed as the guns. There was this comment about farmers being behind the times etc etc and on and on he went about new technology.
Saw a bit of the new technology today coming back from a bird survey, a field with a tethered hawk model flying high and jinking about, under neath it taking no notice a nice flock of wood pigeons scoffing away, undoubtedly thinking that pretend hawk will keep real ones away.
I mentioned a bird survey because I still look at some land on a farm near Ely, and yes they have gasguns in some fields to try and keep birds away and you cannot blame them really after all farmers need to make money as well as grow food. They have flooded some more fields this year to control soil pests, I imagine growing three or four crops a year of salad on a field leads to a buildup of pests. The flooded fields are a magnet for waterbirds with a lovely range of ducks on them at the moment, with Great Crested and Little Grebes diving away, the Little Grebes in particular calling almost non stop.
What were the crops the gas guns were protecting you want to know, Lettuce, in the shops soon fresh for you, habdpicked from lord knows o'clock this morning by gangs of fold who I bet are not paid that much and who are picked on by Nigel Barrage Balloon which takes me back to gasguns.
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