Rabbits hung on trees and bushes? (1 Viewer)

[dampflippers]

I am trying to help someone on another forum who reports seeing lots of dead rabbits hung from cartain trees and bushes near a footpath in Yorkshire.

Has anyone spotted something like this or do you have an explanation?

 

[Adam W]

Depends if they are there for a long time,its not unusual for people shooting or ferreting Rabbits to hang them somewhere and pick them up later in the day but obviously they would only be there for a few hours at the most and alongside a public footpath wouldnt seem the best of places to do this.

 

[Sandra (Taylor)]

I am trying to help someone on another forum who reports seeing lots of dead rabbits hung from cartain trees and bushes near a footpath in Yorkshire.

Has anyone spotted something like this or do you have an explanation?

Might it be a tally of how many rabbits the gamekeeper/shooter has dispensed with? I've seen corvids and foxes on fences in north Yorkshire - and moles that the molecatcher has killed!

 

[James Thomas]

Like Sandra says it's probably a gamekeeper, used to see this on a shooting estate I visited many years ago, any vermin was hung on a gate.

 

[Adam W]

Might it be a tally of how many rabbits the gamekeeper/shooter has dispensed with? I've seen corvids and foxes on fences in north Yorkshire - and moles that the molecatcher has killed!

Well I did think of that aswell but its unlikely that Rabbits would be wasted like that, as you say its normally other 'pests' such as Corvids that wouldnt be eaten anyway but its a possibility I suppose.

 

[BirdFlower]

Well I did think of that aswell but its unlikely that Rabbits would be wasted like that, as you say its normally other 'pests' such as Corvids that wouldnt be eaten anyway but its a possibility I suppose.

There were 3 rabbits hung up on a public footpath near Market Weighton 3 weeks ago. The reason's probably already been suggested. Also had a Mallard hung up yesterday on the N. Wolds, which was a little more odd!

 

[Marmot]

When they were showing the programmes with Eddie Izzard running the 43 Marathons in 51 days I remember a part of it [He was either in the very top of Cumbria or Scotland] when he passed a fence with a load of moles strung up on it, he was quite disgusted with it. [so was I for that matter]

Isnt it supposed to be a thing to show that the gamekeeper is shown to be doing his job.

 

[Quercus]

It's a rather macabre and grotesque practice in the modern world... but then lots of gamekeepers that I've met are hardly forward thinking!

 

[HnehpetS]

I've seen something similar on a footpath near me (Wetherby). I felt it was a bit of a waste when they could be left out for Red Kites which frequent the area.

 

[Hunsletlad]

It sound like a rabbit hunter has "Hocked" them to be picked up later, 10 to 15 rabbits weigh quite a lot if your "Mooching" the fields.