Posted on 04/09/2018 7:02:59 PM PDT by Utilizer
The investigation into what could be the largest raptor poaching case in the state of California continues, according to a California Department of Fish and Wildlife officer in Sacramento.
Standish rancher Richard Parker, 67, was booked into the Lassen County Jail on Monday, March 12, on multiple charges including take of birds of prey, take of migratory non-game birds as designated by the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, take of other non-game birds and possession of wildlife unlawfully taken. Additional charges may be added as the investigation proceeds.
Lassen County Sheriff Dean Growdon said after Parkers arrest, CDFW officers booked him at the Lassen County Detention Center on a fish and game violation and issued him a citation. He did not have to post bail to be released.
After Parkers arrest, CDFW Captain Patrick Foy called this a significant case, and he said he and other investigators have never seen a raptor poaching case involving this many birds of prey.
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Investigators suspect the raptors were shot with a rifle at a distance and their bodies were left where they fell as many carcasses were found near telephone poles and fence posts.
According to Foy, many of the carcasses investigators discovered were in a state of decay, but those carcasses could still be identified as raptors. And he said some of the birds had been recently killed.
Some [of the carcasses] were quite recent, Foy said. They still had fresh, red blood.
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They should roast them at 375 for an hour and then enjoy them with a fine Chianti and Fava Beans? The NERVE of these guys!
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Thank you so much, Katy luv, I appreciate it greatly. It’s diagnosed as stage 4, fatal, so it’s thoughts like yours that I try to remember on the days when the pain is just so bad I can only hope that your prayers and others I cling to when nothing seems to help. :)
Your prayers are much appreciated, indeed.
Here, we can’t raise many small livestock on the edges or outside of town due to the danger of loss due to larger predators like foxes or the like, so we have no problems with our raptors in general.
Thank you so very much. From your lips to God’s ears... ;)
May the Lord support and sustain you and yours.
We have a raptor, a small hawk, which used to roost near our bird feeder. He took and ate a mourning dove once. It’s what they do, part of the great circle of life.
Glad to hear you’re doing better. Prayers up for your continued healing.
thank you for the sweet note.
God bless you, and I’ll keep you in my prayers
Katy
In NE Mississippi a well known and prominent physician was observed and filmed trapping and killing over 200 raptors over a two year period by the Federals and wildlife officials. Since he is politically connected...crickets. In the newspapers they even left out his occupation as a physician associated with a major Mississippi hospital. Google Fred Corder.
Prayers up...dong radiation for elevating PSA a year after surgery for prostrate cancer - hope your prognosis is as good as they claim mine is...
ere they poaching his drones? Target practice? Must have had a reason.
I would never recommend killing them or violating the law, but they are nasty birds we don’t need to many of. They will swoop down and take small pets, songbirds, and whatever else they can. Then they start eating them alive.
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Excellent post. That’s the way I feel.
Wouldn’t bother me if all raptors were shot.
Cruelty personified.
Why can’t they eat and behave like other birds?
And thanks for "condensing" the article for me about the "human predator" (tongue in cheek, trying not to judge his need with it).
If that photo is what I think it is, that’s a touching and amazing photo. There are always exceptions I suppose.
Good to see you back FRiend. May God be with you.
Tatt
That was the least realistic photo I could find. If you want to see nature REALLY in the raw, look up “raptors eating.” But don’t be squeamish!
Thank you for sparing us/me. This is so weird, my eyes both have cataracts (but not so bad I can't read most of the phone book in good light), but I guess I saw what I wanted to see. A nurturing eagle feeding some orphan bird or mouse.
Not a chance!!! Today I see a fish standing on its tail on a fence post being devoured head first by a juvenile? or just plain ugly eagle.
I've watched the eagle cam. Fish usually bother me less than hapless birds and mammals. But when I was a young adult, I liked to go on drives, so we drove a ways up the river and stopped in LeClaire where there was activity boats, docks and fishermen. I watched in horror as a man slit a fish and ripped the skin off alive. It plagued me for days and even now. My father-in-law used to fish and told me he rapped them on the head before he cleaned (and presumably skinned them, never watched him do it). Who knows how much feeling they have?
No sir, I pass on your raptor page. I saw enough of those horrible eagles feeding their young. They do mate for life and the male helps with the eggs and does most of the food gathering while there are young in the nest. So there's good and bad in them from a human pov.
I am squeamish about that sort of thing. I guess alligators and snakes are worse.
I will spare you and other readers the only decent photo I ever took of a juvenile eagle perched on a tree branch (easier when no movement). Birds are hard to catch in flight; it takes some practice and the ability to pan, track, lock in focus and shoot. I get around focus sometimes by setting just under infinity. I think there was some other mode I never used.
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