{"id":41059,"date":"2019-04-23T09:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T09:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=41059"},"modified":"2019-04-23T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T09:44:47","slug":"hen-harriers-and-their-plight-on-this-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/hen-harriers-and-their-plight-on-this-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Hen harriers and their plight on this earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Self-seeking eco-centrics<br \/>\nCovetous as well<br \/>\nWhose principle of evil<br \/>\nIn my belief is hell<br \/>\nThey are manipulators<br \/>\nWhere destruction is their thing<br \/>\nThey also have a one track mind<br \/>\nMercenaries that bring<\/p>\n<p>A suspiciousness into their ploy<br \/>\nAnd a criminality<br \/>\nFor me its double dealing<br \/>\nAnd it just should never be<br \/>\nHen Harriers are lovely birds<br \/>\nYes they are birds of prey<br \/>\nIntensely persecuted<br \/>\nBut they have their right to stay<\/p>\n<p>Grouse shooting<br \/>\nAnd the glorious 12 th<br \/>\nAnd really all that crap<br \/>\nSnooty snobby bribable<br \/>\nFall into the trap<br \/>\nOf creating enemies<br \/>\nOf Natures finest who<br \/>\nHave every right to fly the skies<br \/>\nAs the red grouse can do<\/p>\n<p>But ofcourse the sport of kings<br \/>\nHas got its eyes on shooting game<br \/>\nThe rich and so called famous<br \/>\nThat is what they claim<br \/>\nGamekeepers call them what you will<br \/>\nAnd others come along<br \/>\nAnd put an end to compettion<br \/>\nWhich ofcourse is wrong<\/p>\n<p>Buzzards kites and goshawks<br \/>\nEagles ospreys they<br \/>\nAre likely to be shot at dawn<br \/>\nOn any given day<br \/>\nMAgpies crows and ravens<br \/>\nThey too will be shot<br \/>\nAs for the beautiful harrier<br \/>\nTheir future is not<\/p>\n<p>Good at all apparently<br \/>\nDancers of the skies<br \/>\nCircling and able<br \/>\nTo bag themselves a prize<br \/>\nBut not around the grass moors<br \/>\nWhere theres money to be had<br \/>\nWhere the rich can bag their booty<br \/>\nThe whole damn business sad<\/p>\n<p>Foxes polecats Anything in sight<br \/>\nThe happens to be wild life<br \/>\nThey soon switch off their light<br \/>\nProtection  thats what they call it<br \/>\nThe life line of the moor<br \/>\nThe heathers in all weathers<br \/>\nTurned into blood and gore<\/p>\n<p>A truly iconic species<br \/>\nDestroyed by spivvs they be<br \/>\nAround 600 pairs exist<br \/>\nProtected they be<br \/>\nBut its all done in the non nod<br \/>\nWink wink time and no one sees<br \/>\nBeautiful birds wild as wild<br \/>\nShot out of the trees<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful red foxes trapped<br \/>\nAnd cast away<br \/>\nThis is the glorious 12 th<br \/>\nOn any given  day<br \/>\nExecution big time<br \/>\nThis is what we see<br \/>\nBlood sports are the great warts<br \/>\nOn a perfect wild body<\/p>\n<p>It all goes on regardless<br \/>\nThe police  are seemingly<br \/>\nUnaware of the slaughter<br \/>\nAnd the improbity<br \/>\nEven collared eagles<br \/>\nPalm greasing and the rest<br \/>\nCountrymen so they are called<br \/>\nAre Sinister at best<\/p>\n<p>Latin Cyaneus dark blue<br \/>\nGreek kirkos  circling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-seeking eco-centrics Covetous as well Whose principle of evil In my belief is hell They are manipulators Where destruction is their thing They also have a one track mind Mercenaries that bring A suspiciousness into their ploy And a criminality &hellip; 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