Do you take your rubbish home?

Yes, always. Leave only footprints, take only memories.

The amount of rubbish I see at the river, you wouldn't believe. Blue carrier bags seem to be a favourite, along with bicycles, cans, bottles even a set of goalposts a couple of years ago.

Boils my blood. :bat:

Love Robert Fuller btw, lovely guy, Sched 1 licenced too.
 
Always take my rubbish home, but it is very little as I eat most of it. :)
PS do you have to have a license to photograph Red Kites, I wasn't aware of that as we have a few up here.
 
Nikon f1.8 said:
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PS do you have to have a license to photograph Red Kites, I wasn't aware of that as we have a few up here.
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Yes, at or near the nest site, disturbance is the thing to avoid. Photographing them (at or near) will disturb them,

Away from the nest, fill your boots.
 
Dale. said:
Yes, always. Leave only footprints, take only memories.

The amount of rubbish I see at the river, you wouldn't believe. Blue carrier bags seem to be a favourite, along with bicycles, cans, bottles even a set of goalposts a couple of years ago.

Boils my blood. :bat:

Love Robert Fuller btw, lovely guy, Sched 1 licenced too.
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I have the privilege of making a roe image standing in ( if memory serves) 6 bin bags of human waste........."blood boil" ..I'll temper my words to those Dale;).

I can't find the thread know the image preddy sure someone here asked for site info...it's lovely how I see the irony in things years late isn't it:cool:
 
I frequent a local reserve. If I'm feeling a bit down, it's restorative. If I feel merely good, I finish my walk buzzing. Magic.

It's divided into a well-maintained footpath that's not too muddy even in winter, and a wilder area. Recent wet weather has meant having to take the former and I come back to my car furious. Some dog walkers have taken to tying full poo-bags to trees, and it's not unusual for them to be found within sight - within sight! - of the frequent poo-bins. This selfish behaviour is not endemic in my area, nor is it restricted to this reserve. What's with these people? I used to think death was too good for them, but I've mellowed with age. I think it's just about right.
 
Dave Canon said:
Always take rubbish home and always have.

Dave
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Me too - my father taught me well :)

Partly by such as our fishing trips - on one, the chap at the next peg packed his car and just before setting off emptied his entire (very full) ashtray on the floor !!! My father was not amused

But to leave this pond he had to drive to the end, turn around and come back, as he neared us my father flagged him down - when he opened his window my father tipped ALL of his fag butts & ash back into his car and told him to FK OFF - which he did, sharpish :D
 
Writewheel said:
I frequent a local reserve. If I'm feeling a bit down, it's restorative. If I feel merely good, I finish my walk buzzing. Magic.

It's divided into a well-maintained footpath that's not too muddy even in winter, and a wilder area. Recent wet weather has meant having to take the former and I come back to my car furious. Some dog walkers have taken to tying full poo-bags to trees, and it's not unusual for them to be found within sight - within sight! - of the frequent poo-bins. This selfish behaviour is not endemic in my area, nor is it restricted to this reserve. What's with these people? I used to think death was too good for them, but I've mellowed with age. I think it's just about right.
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Too many irresponsible dog owners, I would've thought owning such a pet would've improved people, but obviously not.

We have a similar issue in Richmond Park. This time of the year we have the Red Deer Cull, to manage the herd size and to 'spare' the sick/diseased ones and occasionally change the hierarchy (so one dominant male can't dominate)...the meat is not wasted as it is sold to butchers etc... The meat, however, cannot be labelled organic as the deer eat anything and the amount of litter that is left in the park is quite staggering at times. Not to mention traffic fumes...
 
It's about time dog DNA was registered to stop irresponsible owners throwing the plastic bagged dog poo in the bushes.
 
I try to take a couple of bits of other folks rubbish home too. Friday I brought home a happy 60th birthday ballon from the top of a large hill, it was stuck in some wire fence. First time I went to Iceland, there was a beach and had a sign asking toeveryone to pick up three bits of litter if they can. If they couldn't happy days; sentiment stuck with me.
 
As a dog walker in a nature reserve twice a day, I concur wholly with the above disgust at some people's behaviour. I strongly feel that many people who own dogs are not actual dog lovers, they just have them as chattels for image purposes, so poo-picking is anathema to them. But the ones who actually bag it and leave the bagged poo around - I cannot fathom any logic to that. Also, weekends and holidays we get all the townie day-trippers and people with holiday caravans, who throw their rubbish out of the car window as they are driving, who leave rubbish everywhere rather than carry it to a bin let alone take it home; and especially lately, with all the wildfires in the Mourne Mountains (many started deliberately), having campfires on the edge of the beach and leaving them smouldering overnight - three times lately I spent half an hour early morning dousing them as the morning wind was rising that would have fanned them into light right next to dried grasses on the dunes.
 
I only take a sandwich and a bottle of water that all fit in my bag and go home with the empty's once consumed.
I can't stand the low life scum who do all the littering. :mad:
 
Being also an angler, I have always taken my (and often other peoples) rubbish home. When fishing I usually have a carrier bag in my box for rubbish. When out watching/photographing wildlife, any rubbish goes in the rucksack and binned when at home.

I really hate dog s***. I turned up at a club water last year only to find the 3 swims available all had dog's muck in them. I went somewhere else instead.
 
Living in a village, it never ceases to amaze me how people just toss rubbish from their cars into the countryside. It's not even as though they have to carry it home by hand. And on our walk yesterday afternoon there were the shreds of bags that once contained dog faeces every few yards on the footpaths (but not so much the fields, where they probably get ploughed in).
 
Saw 2 sets of Mums with kids litter picking along a stretch of road that's at finishing distance from MuckFCminos so often well littered... Good on them!
 
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