****ing gamekeepers!!

[carrust]

http://www.birdguides...ne/article.asp?a=3239

[rowanwitch]

Bar stewards

[horseshoes]

Why do gamekeepers do that carrust?

[carrust]

The nest site is very near some grouse moors, horseshoes. Some gamekeepers think that anything with a hooked beak should be exterminated.

[ChuckFickens]

There is no suggestion in the article that this was a gamekeeper.

[rowanwitch]

have they any idea how few game birds they take..... even with young they are more likely to take competitor species and rodents

[carrust]

Chuck. If it wasn't a gamekeeper who else would have a reason for doing it?