jimmy white

eagle owl,, as with all owls will see or hunt better at night, their main food is rabbit, it will not tolerate any other bird of prey anywhere near its own nesting grounds [usually the same type of nesting ground as the peregrine],, i wouldnt think they would kill a wolf or labrador :-/

mind and control yourself in the morning ;D ;D ;D if you get the bird,, ;D ;D, theres always some get through no matter what,, lets hope its yours wul,d,, best of luck,,

if you think you are beaten,, you are if you think you dare not, you dont if youd like to win , and think you cant its pretty well sure you wont lifes battles, dont always go to, the faster or louder man. but sooner or later the ones that win..........are the ones that think they can robert burns,s wee brother,,, fat burns ;D ;D ;D

knowledge and learning,,, the rest follows on from there

well done frank,, and good to see homerp,s appreciation ,, well done both

what do you mean by that ;D ;D ;D ;D

same here spider,, received your pm,, but cant send out,, will put report on mods board,, hope things resolve,, j,w

yes your right there better with a bag of pigeon grub ;D

gave my money to the sick animals today ;D ;D ;D [didnt know they were sick when i backed them ;D ;D ;D]

happy birthday marsh,,, hope your keeping well

;D ;D ;D had me going too ;D ;D ;D ;D, then i placed a mirror at the pics,, its mirror image

same here tammy,, you need a magnifying glass to find " A " linseed in the depurative

yes i saw that too,, but in old yellows post,, re, barrel of oil,, i thought i had mis-heard that,, but its right enough,, i did here right looks like were being done the price of feeding always seems to go up,, for any reason the fav. one is, "they had a bad harvest" but it never went down when they had a" good harvest ",, i would imagine when the petrol prices go up, so will the feeding,, ,,worse luck ,,

p,s they seem to be putting less linseed in any mixes now :-/

i used to just mix a few w/hood mixes together, i,e french maize, cinc, maize [cant spell it ;D], dog tooth maize etc,, kept it simple,, worked for me ,, any distance candidates were fed the same mix,, but a galley pot of maples in their nest box, then just a few peanuts nearer the time, i found it more important to fly am and pm,, ,, with complete rest in between

can almost sense the exitement ,, be absolutely great,, if you got that text ;D,,best of luck,,

doing not so bad freebird i was fair amazed at your pics ,,, anyway , as you say,, lets hope we get some decent weather soon,, do us all good ;D good luck with your catalonian tumblers

just looking at the pics they look great,, nice clean loft, lovely looking birds

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good pics blaz,, didnt they do well ;D ;D ;D nice birds

nice pics,, like the cheq on the fence ,, all very nice though

there has been an" arguement "for many years about these eagle owls,, top ornithologists say they are native to britain,, off course the rspb disagree,, i would suppose they have their own reasons,, :-/ :-/ :-/ but eagle owls born in the wild ARE in fact native to britain,[being born here] and SHOULD have the same protection of any other birds of prey,,,but it doesnt seem so :-/ :-/ :-/ due to genuine escapees of falcons there are now hybrid falcons flying wild,, if these breed in the wild,, the youngsters will have the same protection,[ as they are born in the wild in britain] im not sure about the white tailed eagle , why introduce them? if they dissapeared by nature in 1886 :-/?

dont pool them in the first race ;D ;D ;D ;D but i wouldnt mind pooling them in the last few distance races ;D ;D ;D

exactly what im trying to say ;D,, great fliers with the right management in knowing their own birds

if i can have my pennithworth budgie , i would say a very difficult question,, my veiw would be management would come first, ,, i,e if you were training the best distance in the world now, then every day, untill july,, this great bird would be finished well b4 the big one [i use this as an exaggerated sample],, by management i mean , obtaining the best long distance stock, breeding best to best, ridding the offspring rubbish by sensible racing/training, waiting until the birds you think are capable, are mature birds, then at two years old, setting them up for these long distance races, making sure [again by management] that the bird is conditioned to be in top form in july , by this time knowing its best nest condition, having the bird just casting its second flight,, with plenty fuel left in the bird for the job in hand i do believe there are pigeon fanciers that are better than others at genetics /breeding etc, some farmers seem to be good at this , but when you see the same fanciers year in, year out, on nat results,, sending very few birds, ,, these are the guys that can fit the jigsaw better than others, they seem to have a" pigeon second sense" ,,, mcormack of wynchburgh was one of this type, never off a nat result in something like 20 odd years,, without sending massive teams, jim sanderson [ a farmer]pathead, winning nantes [600 miles] twice , also second,, is another of many, over the last many years