Absolutely Outraged

The RSPB said: 

An RSPB spokesman said: "We are disappointed that the council have placed netting on the cliffs at Bacton to prevent sand martins from nesting.

"In an effort to minimise the disturbance to nesting sand martins during the sandscaping project, we supported the contractor's recommendation for the council to use a fine mesh (which birds cannot get trapped in) on a small section of the cliff.

"Based on the images we have seen published, our advice has not been followed and we will be reaching out to the council to offer further advice and support."

The images in the report show a fine mesh? 

Fully agree with you OP, it’s disgraceful and cruel. The way something’s happen nowadays, I feel for future generations and wonder what kind of a world they will be living in. I will be signing petition. 

This is what worries me about our country. Our elected representatives cannot be trusted to do the right things anymore, far too many of them have conflicts of interest and are looking to their assets rather than what’s right for the whole country and it’s way of life, and that includes wildlife as well as humans. Very sad☹️

It's not good, not good at all! I know there have been efforts to create alternative breeding habitats when riverbank work has been in need in certain areas. This demands much forward planning I would think and a positive mindset. Even then, I don't know how successful these efforts have been.

Builders  'netted'  a  hedgerow  in  Shropshire  to  restrict  birds  nesting,  in  order  that  they  could  build  200  new  houses.

Obviously  the  Shropshire  birds  are  or  will  grow  into  Violent  Home-wreckers.

Not  that  it  really  matters  'cos  some  "Anti-Enterprise"  people  in  that  area  got  stuck  in  &  tore  the  nets  down.

Council  non  too  chuffed  ,  but  Brian's  happily  smiling 

In some cases ABN it makes good sense to net off if work is planned. As somebody who has had to consider nesting birds. if I had a project that meant a hedge removal or significant effects on the hedge' which has happened, if I had access I would prefer to remove the hedge or carry out the work on the hedging before nesting time rather than net off even if that meant some temporary fencing work.

If you are referring to the netted off hedge it may be that the builder had inspected to insure no apparent nest building before netting. Something that I had to do prior to work commencing on part of the Wirral Way footpath. Some of the existing hedging needed to be cut back hard before the works. I enlisted one of the Countryside Rangers and two chaps from local RSPB to join me in the inspection 2 days before the site clearance hedging works took place. Seems pointless netting a hedge if there is access to do the works.

This was an example to the North Norfolk Council of the power of social media as hours after the netting was discovered tens of thousands of people were involved including many personalities e.g. Chris Packham.

Some of the netting was removed yesterday but the RSPB are still not happy with the extent of the netting or the type of netting used.  The netting was originally put up as part of a coastal erosion project.

This is the second example in a few weeks as recently Tescos netted off an area at their Harford Bridge store in an attempt to stop swallows nesting.

‘Collateral damage’, a meally mouthed way of saying death to an unintended target. I’d suggest that if they stopped the practice there’d be no death.

‘Collateral damage’, a meally mouthed way of saying death to an unintended target.

I thought you might like that one 

I was being ironic

Excellent, hopefully it will become a practice firmly placed in history never to be resurrected👍🏻

Refer it to that Springwatch bloke- he has an obsession re birds of any kind, even those that each songbird chicks etc.

Don't follow you - what context does that have for crows and pigeons. If a farmer plants say oilseed rape or peas, pigeons can  overnight from nowhere decide to raid that field. How long do  you think a farmer will need to get through the beurocracy of obtaining a licence to shoot hem? No doubt with objections from ill informed, bunny huggers  In a matter of 3 days the crop will have been decimated. Its this ignorance that makes your pundit unsuitable to represent BBC programmes. His attitude that country folks are bullies ( todays Guardian) just adds to his unsuitability.

Is that you me? What a tirade. All I ask for is some reasonable discussion and scientific justification. Nothing wrong with proper and reasonable control. Some just want get the gun and spread toxic lead lead all wildly hilly over the countryside.  

There are ways and means of controlling the issues recklessness is not one of them