Re: Brown hares?


"Derry Argue" <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "keith" <keith.williams44@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> > "Andrew Hickley" <amh67@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> > More about than usual but if the coursing doesn't stop then back to
> >> > low levels again.
> >>
> >> Anecdotally, I'd say numbers seem fairly stable round here (Norfolk).
> >> We're too far from London/motorways for coursing to be a
> >> major/regular problem, as far as I know...
> >
> > I would say that we have increased over the last few years, coursing
> > is (was) not a major problem here. English partridge numbers are on
> > the up and I put this down mainly to the CSS 6m margins.
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> > Keith,
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> I'm a bit surprised at those margins. I would have thought they would be
> ideal for Mr Fox to quarter out and hover up any game in them. But maybe
> you don't have a fox problem? They just seem illogical to me, as someone
> who has worked dogs all his life. But if they work, there is no contest!
>
> Derry

We have our fair share of foxes, but not over run.

I can see your point of the strips, but it does not seem the case, perhaps
it is because the strips are only 6m wide and the partridge are never far
from escape?

I would put it down to the insects and seeds that they provide for food, not
necessarily for nesting sites

Keith.


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