Étranges pratiques agricoles et contrôle des oiseaux de vermine; les corneilles mortes accrochées à la clôture de ferme métallique dans le creux de Bowland, Lancaster, Lancashire Royaume-Uni.
5120 x 3413 px | 43,3 x 28,9 cm | 17,1 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
septembre 2006
Lieu:
The Trough of Bowland, Lancaster, Lancashire UK -
Informations supplémentaires:
Magpies and crows (and rooks, wood pigeons and sundry others) are covered by the general licence under the Countryside and Rights of way act 2000 and can, with good reason, be shot by the landowner or his agents at any time - their young can also be killed and nests destroyed. Machinery of various kinds, such as wind-mills in miniature, horse rattles, etc., to be put in motion by the wind, are often employed to frighten crows; but with all of these they soon become familiar, when they cease to be of any use whatever. Dead weasels and stoats are among other species that find themselves being strung up along barbed-wire fences. It’s not very delightful and has no deterrent effect whatsoever. A crow, flying along, spots his dead brother on a fence and just carries on doing whatever he’s doing. Same goes for the weasel. But it does show that the game-keeper or rabbit-catcher or whoever is doing his job. It gives him a sense of achievement and proves, particularly to his employer, that he has been doing something. Game-keepers are mysterious creatures themselves and no one knows precisely what they get up to. But the dead crows are for show.
