maverick

**expletive removed** TAM you only been down there 5 minutes DiSgrace to a Scotsman ..... LOL

Thats a good one for you Auld yin----- lol

Did you notice the bit at the end of programme about the Peregrines feeding at night by street light catching bats that shows how much they are breeding and increasing in population when they find the need to feed at night

thought you had put a good word in for me there mate lol

been there when feds have liberated birds and hawks were hitting the birds as the circled

Gareth who told you otterburn is a good racepoint a lot of percys around that area

Sure i seen this hawk soaring high in the sky today with a halo round its head

HI stan tell john well done well done kieran that will cheer the auld yin up lol

Well done Gareths doo

FCKE* sake its hard enough reading what some on here type in english LOL :lol:

Let all the birds out today to clean out the loft the hawk got another youngbird on my neighbours roof scared hawk away in the end but youngbird dead will have to get a ladder to get it down a yearling hen came in the hawk must have had her as she is in a mess all down the back of her neck and you can see were the hawk has had a grip of her birds will have to stay in loft now until i get this hawk am passed carring what happens now but i will get this hawk

Andy you are looking at the whole wing and the change in it but pay a bit of attention to the flights

The only way you get to know anything in life is to ask the questions

Andy take a picture of a youngbirds wing you are not going to race so as you dont loose it then after the moult take another picture of same wing and study the diffrence

for me just now it is cruelty to let the birds out before i opened the loft front and the birds would be out in seconds now i have to chase them out not a good way to keep racing pigeons think i will keep fantails as i got 2 to help me out with the hawks (wink,wink) out from morning until night and the hawks have never bothered them put the young racers out and its there

Another one taken by hawk yesterday there is 100s of street pigeons around me but the bassa seems to prefer mine realy pi--ed of now scared to let birds out been letting them out at diffrent times each day to try it out but hawk still around after loosing 8 the last time and a few more that i have not seen what happened to them now down to 11 youngbirds so dont think i will get racing again this year after looking forward to racing them Think now it is time to call it a day

correct Andy

I may be reading this wrong but are they incouraging folk to keep racing pigeons they find and not contact the owner if so is this not illegal as the bird is the property of the registard owner and could be seen as theft

I had this myself this year now you must get the fox as it will keep returning

The makeup of a youngbirds wing is more get up and go get away from preditors so more on the speed side

I have sat for hours with Eddie Newcombe talking on the wings of pigeons as this was eddies theory and he was telling me about having birds put to him while at shows on panels and 9 times out of 10 he got it 100% correct on the one occation he was wrong the bird he put as the distance bird had not been raced over 300 miles so he was picking sprint ,middle , long distance birds on the wing makeup.A youngbirds wing is completly diffrent from an old bird take a picture of a youngbirds wing then take a picture of the same wing a year later and look at the diffrence in the wing

R.I.P CONDOLENCES TO HARRY AND ALL THE FAMILY

well done Andy birds are flying well

R.I.P TOOSHY

youngbirds hit yesterday by hawk one killed one hit neighbours window and is dead another 6 missing 8 gone from 20 was looking forward to racing youngbirds this year after 3 years out because of health so sick thinking off calling it a day now