raptor

Many have tried to recapture these owls but failed.....it isn't that easy....they have acute hearing as well as sight and cannot be crept on and not easily trapped........

Oh dear............ murdering pets?........... explain that statement? ..if you can Read the thread properly........no one is trying to cause trouble just disccusing your problems with raptors.......

Simply.....NO........ but as you know it happens.............. so what I am saying again is once released into the air they are and always will be under threat if they pass over a falcons hunting ground........

Birds of prey hyave no sense of smell................... hearing is not used by hawks and falcons in the main..........mainly by owls.................. Hawks and falcons use their eyesight which is very acute to see quarry..........

But you know that when you release them surely?

Fair comment.........

Are you saying that none of the poisoning of raptors is being carried out by pigeon fanciers?

Have you rang anyone to let them know that a falconers bird is in the area?

Falconers are not your enemy................. we as falconers who fly longwings really don't want our birds chasing pigeons........ we either train them on game or the blackstuff................. I have flown falcons for years and can honestly say hand on heart that only once did my one of my birds check at it's intended quarry and take out a racing pigeon....... the only reason it did take it was the bird was knackered out and flying so slow and raptors are opportunists and it took the opportunity of an easy kill........... I did ring the owner and tell her and she was fine about it.......turned out the bird had been missing for over 2 weeks and she presumed a peregrine had taken it anyway.

Well some of you wish it on your pigeons ............ Why not remark on post below............ lot of fanciers moan about their pigeons being killed by raptors but ........... every year without fail I get at least 6...10 racing pigeons land here and feed alongside my doves........ Last year I rang the owners of 5 birds I caught up to let them no the bird was here.............. what answer did I get.............it went along these lines.......... " oh just knock it on the head it isn't any good now"............... I didn't 5 are still here now don't dare tell me that is right?? Only 2 fanciers in 3 years have collected their birds from here.

Well apart from trying to ignore Tammys silly remarks................ One way would be for falconers to be allowed to trap parent birds which would split up a lot of the breeding pairs and would eventually cut down on the numbers breeding......... Another is a cull.......... not to sure I would agree with that .......... Apart from that I am not sure of the solution...............

Yep you have stood alone all those years and are still in the same position as you were then..well done!! :

But that is the point .....not all peres in all locations are taking large figures of pigeon....I am not saying it doesn't heppen...............

No but frounce does.............. as for coffee no thank you............. grow up and talk like an adult instead of your stupid remarks...........

???............... who takes pleasure?.............. that is such a small minded statement............ Raptors are hunters...we train them in captivity as the parent role........ once realeased it is nature against nature........... they don't kill everytime nor would I want them too............... I would say that deliberately poisoning birds is much more sick and cruel as if it kills the parent bird first as it often does then the young starve to death in a slow manner or is that ok with you? Most good falconers are animal lovers through and through. Hunting with birds of prey is the most natural thing in the world............. it is not man made like a gun................. A lot of fanciers moan about their pigeons being killed by raptors but ........... every year without fail I get at least 6...10 racing pigeons land here and feed alongside my doves........ Last year I rang the owners of 5 birds I caught up to let them no the bird was here.............. what answer did I get.............it went along these lines.......... " oh just knock it on the head it isn't any good now"............... I didn't 5 are still here now don't dare tell me that is right?? Only 2 fanciers in 3 years have collected their birds from here.