Children were reportedly left in tears after coming across dozens of dead birds on a popular walking path.
Jeanie Fox first heard the sound of gunshots from her back garden on Croxteth Park Estate around two weeks ago. The 50-year-old said she assumed it was fireworks at first, until she saw residents on the Nextdoor app talking about birds being shot in the local area.
The gunshots were being fired from Larkin's Farm on School Lane in Prescot. When approached by the ECHO, a spokesperson for the farm said the birds were shot as part of "periodic pest control to stabilise pigeon’s population in order to stop their crops from being decimated."
