potential dangers of birds eating my fishing bait?

[ramuntxo55]

when fishing i put my carp groundbait into a little box, i guess you would say it was like a tobacco box as i buy it in big bags to save money and dont want to be karting too much of it around with me as its not heavy Carp groundbait yeh i dont wanna carry around a kil of bait!) so anyway, im fishing and im chatting and i look round and some woodland scamp had run off with my bait box (also a great little box that my dad used to use to fish, quite upset its gone but theres nothing i can do about it now) the thing that worries me is if animals start eating this sort of thing, not so much the ground animals but the birds are worrying me, perhaps unecessarily. i just wondered what eating that sort of thing can do to a bird, perhaps i should go warn the authorities what happened so that they can keep an eye out for any animal suffering? can anyone adivse?

[rolf]

If it's Ok for the fishes, it'll be OK for the birds I would guess.

[ladylouise62]

It can't be any worse than the worst of naturally-found stuff they might eat.

[Catherine]

I'd agree with Rolf and Louise - ss long as they didn't have hooks attached!

(Sad that some mindless moron stole your box though. You might find the box left near where you were fishing. Fingers crossed!)