[Sussex] Storks in Sussex

[SK1NT]

This thread should be renamed to NSC Stalk Watch. Do they spend the whole year in the UK?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

This thread should be renamed to NSC Stalk Watch. Do they spend the whole year in the UK?

They’ll probably go to Southern Europe for winter but hopefully return to nest here next Spring.

 

[dazzer6666]

Here we go again, man messing about with nature.
Weren't there hundreds of Mink released from Knepp a few years ago? How many are there now? None.
How many storks will be there in 5 years time? I'm guessing none as well.

Mink have never been native to the uk, they were imported to farm for fur. The releases were done by animal rights activists (not from Knepp as far as I know, unlikely they’d be rearing mink) and the ****ers are absolutely everywhere in our waterways (loads in mid Sussex, see them all the time - mink, that is, not activists, they are all in the vegan caffs in Brighton obvs)

 

[Superseagull]

One, maybe a second, spotted in Isfield this evening.

 

[dazzer6666]

I only normally see them when I head to The Algarve. Didn't realise they had been reintroduced in this country.

Always look out for them on our annual golf trip……loads in Portimao on the chimney stacks

 

[Mr Putdown]

Mink have never been native to the uk, they were imported to farm for fur. The releases were done by animal rights activists (not from Knepp as far as I know, unlikely they’d be rearing mink) and the ****ers are absolutely everywhere in our waterways (loads in mid Sussex, see them all the time - mink, that is, not activists, they are all in the vegan caffs in Brighton obvs)

Can I add another vote to the utter stupidity of the countrywide release of mink into our ecology by well meaning activists.

****ing idiots.

 

[Baldseagull]

Mink have never been native to the uk, they were imported to farm for fur. The releases were done by animal rights activists (not from Knepp as far as I know, unlikely they’d be rearing mink) and the ****ers are absolutely everywhere in our waterways (loads in mid Sussex, see them all the time - mink, that is, not activists, they are all in the vegan caffs in Brighton obvs)

I saw an interview with fur farmer many years ago, I was and am not keen on the fur trade, but the ****er gave me pause for thought, he said "people eat meat and think thats ok, but if I kill these for their fur people get upset, well the mink doesn't care if you eat it or skin it once it is dead."

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I saw an interview with fur farmer many years ago, I was and am not keen on the fur trade, but the ****er gave me pause for thought, he said "people eat meat and think thats ok, but if I kill these for their fur people get upset, well the mink doesn't care if you eat it or skin it once it is dead."

We wear leather shoes, use leather bags etc after eating the beef.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Mink have never been native to the uk, they were imported to farm for fur. The releases were done by animal rights activists (not from Knepp as far as I know, unlikely they’d be rearing mink) and the ****ers are absolutely everywhere in our waterways (loads in mid Sussex, see them all the time - mink, that is, not activists, they are all in the vegan caffs in Brighton obvs)

Strange thing, l do a fair amount of walking in the local countryside, yet have never, to my knowledge, come across mink.

Perhaps they never wander west of Bolney, who knows? lol

 

[dazzer6666]

Strange thing, l do a fair amount of walking in the local countryside, yet have never, to my knowledge, come across mink.

Perhaps they never wander west of Bolney, who knows? lol

Unlikely to see them too far from water…..loads along the Ouse.

 

[mune ni kamome]

Loads of Storks on the lake at Wadhurst too

 

[Thunder Bolt]

14 white storks at Camber Castle near Rye today.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Yes activists let go mink but they were escaping into the in wild before that. I honestly don't think you can compare eating meat and using fur. Fur farming has no place in a civilised society. At some point we will be forced to abandon eat meat especially beef as the cost of production increases.

 

[TugWilson]

I am convinced that l came across a pair flying low in the sky, on one of my regular weekend walks across the fields to Wineham earlier this summer.

Such majestic birds.

So if they are birds you like and consider majestic they don`t shit or cause vermin? And before any smart arse comment that you feel alleviates you from your earlier comment on basically birds are bad news,you might want to know they make their nests on and around chimneys ,all around Europe,and return EVERY year,you lucky man could be you ......by the way they are protected same as Gulls .