On www.theboltonnews.co.uk you can look at video of an Eagle Owl catching a rat (why not squirrels, that would be useful!) last Saturday in the Heaton area.
The NW Hunt Saboteurs are demonstrating outside Wigan Town Hall tonight - there is a full council meeting to decide whether to shoot the Ruddy Ducks. (Over half have dispersed to breeding sites anyway - guess what, it's global warming - the same reason why they stay put here in winter.)