I find it all rather sad that the message coming from those who satellite tag our Golden Eagles is one that values media mud slinging over truth and prosecutions.
There is no mention of prosecution, of those who commit illegal raptor persecution, as being the priority.
Their actions, as shown above in the Twitter post, are only directed at promoting an agenda to either close down grouse moors or licence them out of viability through falsehood.
To use the term a 'shed-load' of eagles is totally disrespectful to the status of our Golden Eagles and exhibits a contempt for their individual welfares or freedom as a wild bird.
Surely it is not the 'grouse industry' that is trying to smear Ruth Tingay et al, but exactly the opposite is true.
Satellite tagging these beautiful eagles is cruelty with no conscience about their after care or welfare.
Harnessing of the satellite transmitter frequently creates dangerous welfare problems for the eagles as we have witnessed in Angus.
For all the satellite tagged eagles that have ever been tagged for the cause of raptor persecution abatement, not one of the eagles that have allegedly vanished suspiciously has brought about a criminal prosecution in Scotland, and indeed none have provided concrete evidence of wrong doing as found by all of the ensuing police investigations.
Some of our poor Golden Eagles in Scotland, that are thriving into record numbers, have to suffer this imposed cruelty for life because of an obsession by the few.
There is no evidence that satellite tagging is relevant to this increase in the eagle population because of the continuing claims of persecuted, vanishing eagles that strangely do not reduce that population.
The reluctance shown to admit that transmitters and their batteries fail, and that the transmitter harnessing method is medieval must surely indicate ignorant intransigence in error from those like Tingay and the BTO and the RSPB.
Satellite Tagging; The Weapon of Choice