How to avoid 2021’s corvid control trap

With the season all but over, my mind as usual turns to planning for the next. In just a few weeks, the pheasants will be setting up their territories, strutting their stuff and doing everything they can to keep their harems together. The corvids will be getting frolicsome too. Rooks start early, jackdaws a little later, and the crows and magpies will be getting increasingly territorial.

In two months from now, it will be Larsen trapping season — or will it? With the new rules under Defra’s open general licences for pest bird control, the central plank of my little wild bird rough shoot