Birds of prey again - several areas of the UK

A few weeks ago, a First Alert was sent out to advise rabbit owners of the dangers from birds of prey. Following this we were advised that 2 nesting pairs of buzzards had been spotted in Redhill Park and Strouden Park (Bournemouth) An Essex member from Billericay reported that a sparrow hawk had been spotted taking pigeons and another member found her rabbit surrounded by magpies and has since been terrified of going outside. Also a resident crow tried to attack my own Continental Giant a few days later..

A few minutes ago this came in

"Hi could you let members know that their are red kites in the hertford area. they have been spotted sweeping into gardens taking pigeons etc and i am sure that small animals will be on their shopping list."

If your rabbits are outside, please ensure that they are in a secure run, but also be aware that being approached by predators and birds of prey, even when they aren't able to touch your pets, can leave them very traumatised.

Thank you for the warning love, luckily my boy is indoors.

Hugs

Jo xx

We have a Sparrowhawk that visit's our garden it's a female and she has taken no end of collard Doves and wood pigeons and smaller birds, luckily when the buns are out in their runs there is always me or Mike supervising outside.

we have this problem here in suffolk already..... they then tried to introduce sea eagles recently but thankfully with public and farmers anger it didnt happen. We ahd placards on the main routes which highlighed the issue and got it stopped.

As we have a lot of seagulls if a bird of prey approches the sea gulls make so much noise this lets me know... My boys are pretty big and always run if a large bird flies over but still I dont take chances.

Dawn