Yes, I hear you guys. The same here.
Like the hunt master says, there are many more predators as well.
Foxes used to be persecuted worse than Roman Christians & their pelts were worth upward of thirty bucks.
They were reprieved by the same ones who want to save the world single handedly by banning everything. Little realizing that freeing the robbers, now every house is robbed & the innocent are sentenced to pay the price.

Crows copped it in the neck mercilessly & every boy had a gun.
Their numbers were only impacted slightly but they knew their place.
Now the boys have a cell phone & no shooters licence. They never look or learn about crows being called a murder & systematically working every nest in the area.

In towns here the accipiter's go under the house veranda's & reach their yellow legs into budgie cages & pull the pet birds out through the bars.

Quails cannot stand the constant attack.

O.M