at least let them know you can identify the 3 birds in question if you are going to fill it in, peregrine goshawk then female sparrow hawk in that order.
many years ago I worked with a guy who had a caravan at stonehaven. when he learned that I raced pigeons he told me a story about one summer morning when he was lying in bed he could hear something hitting his caravan roof, on going outside he saw racing pigeons running around the site most of them with broken wings and a local jack Russell ragging them. he then noticed that the carnage was caused because the transporter had released them in the line of overhead wires, so when you loss a favourite maybe it too, was a front runner trying to weave thro.wires at liberation caused by human error.
wise move John boy,to quote Rabbie Burns "conceal yirsel as weel yi can fae critical dissection,but keek through every other man wi sharpened sly inspection
I HAVE TWO IN A BASKET READY TO BE RELEASED SOMEWHERE ABOUT CARLISLE TOMORROW, THEY MUST HAVE GONE WELL OVER THE TOP IN THE STRONG SOUTH WIND ON SAT. NOS. ARE NEHU 12N 0835 & NEHU 12 BV 0004