john cumming

you have my sympathys bud having had two taken yesterday in the loft at about 4 pm, yes usually around the 2nd week in april they go 2 nest

yes the place is knee deep in raptors along the moray coast, between buckie and portsoy along the cliffs there are many peregrine sites and we often see them around the mouth of the river spey, in the buckie area we seem to be plagued more by sparrow hawks than anything else?? and believe me they hunt in the rain as i found out to my cost yesterday when the hen sparrow hawk entered my loft, but they dont like becoming the hunted as one found out yesterday?? things must be pretty deperate if the sparrow hawk comes through the bob wires to get at the birds?? bottom line is that there are far to many " BOPS " in almost every area of the country and the problem i think will not get any better unless some kind of population control on the bop is in place so a more equal balance between raptors and the song birds/pigeons ect. at the rate the bops are breeding the food chain in the bird population cannot be sustained as it is, most bird populations have declined over the years and the funny thing is according to RSPB it is never the raptors that are to blame???

well i protected mine the day all be after two youngsters were killed?? my property my law

Lhanbryde is about 12 miles from me, tomintoul a bit further, they will have a fair bit of snow up there just now?? weathers very poor up here just now??

just heading off to bed!! mobile txt comes flying in?? the daughter & the squad she hangs out with. can you come & get us its freezing up here so off the 20 miles or so to elgin to pick them up?? the joys of parent hood & i thought it was ment to get easier as they got older!! not!!! hahaha sound familiar pps??

here here!! i did the day

i have taken pictures just not had time to upload them yet, will get round to it??

yes you have a valid point, bottom line theres to many of them, they must be desperate if they are having to this to maybe survive!!

couldnt comment?

couldnt believe straight through the bob wires not sure what got bent more the wires or the hawk with the impact?? haha

its safe to say it well n truely did?

cant say much on here incase the annorak brigade are watching but you got it in one??

loved the programe, an insight into the way the american ppl race the birds and mike tyson the pigeon fancier, hes a legend in my book

totally gutted just had a sparrowhawk kill two younsters in the loft around 4pm today, i had the birds out and had started shaking the birds in, as they started landing on the loft they took off again not thinking anything of it filled the food scoop and headed to the loft, upon the loft door being opened was met by total carnage?? two younsters on the floor dead all the other birds off the eggs and a hen sparrow hawk going loopy bouncing off walls n windows trying to get out!!!!! the birds were actually frozen stiff with fear litterely sat on top of one another never seen anything like it.the sparrow hawk went straight throught the bob wires to get in and it happened so quickly less than a minute i would say as i had only came from the loft to the feed shed to get the corn, to say im raging is the understatement of the year makes me wonder if its worth the time and effort racing the birds when you see this happening and im not surprised so many fanciers have ceased racing the pigeons when this is happening all the time john

aye its a sad time walter, they take an awful hold oh you, mine was 17 when she went tae sleep was in bits for days, place seems empty athoot them?

jim, awrite, no not gone back, spoke to the lad the other day

LOST, Lost off the roof a few days ago blue cheq cock ,( NEHU - 2010 - BOR - 379 )Blue ring also red ring on other leg with phone number 01542 834462 john

yes, i would tend to agree with you on this one davy, if the new result site is on the same sort of format as the previous then even better!! really liked the result service that was here, easy to follow and upload, and on a saturday & sunday i pretty much scoured every club & fed that posted to see how fanciers got on

ok, cheers for that

cracking loft, yes excellent value for money, i have two lofts from blakes and are as good now as day i bought them?? thinking about another one for the stock birds? wouldnt go anywhere else for a loft.

i think most ppl think the same

i have no idea why? it would be just fine on " P/B " i had been informed at some point that it was possibly being moved??