Insanity Reigns In The World of Bird Protection.

Red kites soar back from the brink of extinction after project dubbed the 'biggest species success story in British conservation history'

It was once extinct in England and Scotland. But now the red kite is back with a vengeance as 10,000 take to our skies in the 'biggest species success story in British conservation history'.Mail.

Blogger: This is a wicked project between the JNCC and the RSPB. The latter have, in the past, dared to defend themselves against my complaints that they are not supporting our rapidly declining songbird population against the predations of Corvidae.

The damage to songbirds by kites is one more problem for birds already being ravaged by alien grey squirrels, cats and the burgeoning numbers of largely uncontrolled foxes. (I spotted a huge dog fox this morning on one of my walks where one has never previously been sighted.)

In the city of Sheffield itself, preying on songbirds, we now have: buzzards, sparrowhawks, kestrels and Harris Hawks.

What was once an occasional sighting every month or so is now a daily occurrence.

Not to mention herring gulls and other huge numbers of different species of seagull thirty+ miles inland.

At least Songbird Survival is on the same side as the diminishing songbirds.

I have not given a penny to the RSPB in almost 30 years

The Royal Society For The Prevention of Birds?

Huge culls are going to be necessary if our songbirds are not to disappear forever.

That purest of all killing machines, the goshawk, is also being warmly encouraged by an organisation which cannot see the wood for the trees.