Naughty Naughty!!

[eggsarascal]

Try and get hold of the company that did that and report em to RSPB, RSPCA. Would be a hefty fine for them and maybe 6 months prison for bloke who felled the tree.

 

What, so you would report one of your own and get him imprisoned for what would probably/possibly be an accident/misjudgement.

[dumper]

Does anybody actually know someone who has been prosecuted and gone to prison for the crime

[Dave D]

Anyone working with trees or hedges in the summer months is going to find nests,

Halfway through a job (especially on leylandii) you cannot stop and walkaway.

I was taking out a load of leylandii the other day and found a goldcrest nest,

Luckily they were fledging and the mother continued to feed the surviving chicks, It was upsetting, but what can you do? I am not paid by a government body, so to misquote that northener " no workee, no payee"

 

you CAN stop and you CAN walkaway. i've stopped numerous jobs after finding nesting birds halfway through. maybe things are different in france to here. usually a polite explanation to the customer will do and we go back when the young have left the nest.

 

if you unwittingly started work on a preserved tree and a tree officer came out and told you of the preservation order would you carry on cutting?

Edited May 19, 2011 by Dave D

[Mark Bolam]

That's not the point mate.

 

Pro tree blokes take nesting birds into account.

 

Species irrelevant.

[Mark Bolam]

To Dumper, not DaveD, who is spot on as usual.

[tommer9]

Its nesting season....they should have done a better inspection of the tree before felling it.

I agree with Mark.

[Sam Thompson]

Stop and tell them youll come back in a month to see, then carry on if you can. Explain that it will not cost anymore and that they are saving three baby birds, they will think a lot of you if they are decent folk.

[Mark Bolam]

We have never lost a job by stopping because of nesting birds, after explaining what the crack is. We have lost 1/2 days work here and there, but it is made up for in reputation and good karma!

[Big J]

Something similar happened back in February. Went to see an Elm that had been taken down earlier that day alongside a beech. The elm had been standing dead, but the beech was by all accounts reasonably healthy. I was only interested in the Elm for milling, but had a quick peek at the beech, only to find two barn owl chicks in a cavity that would have been about 20ft up the tree. There is no way you would have been able to see it, or expect it in February.

 

Anyway, they went to the Scottish SPCA and were doing well when I last checked!

[Matthew Arnold]

Two years ago i saw an ivy clad Leylandii hedge being felled. It was on our boundary and alot of people were very upset. We asked the site foreman if a bird survey had been carried out. We got just "erm" for an answer.