gutted

[Guest ROCKYandRAMBO]

gutted for you alex and john , hows the rest of the team as this would of prob upset them , great pigeon one question he wasnt raced as a youngster now was he trained up as a youngun ? yours rob

[The Navigator]

Outstanding specimen again taken through uncontrolled measures. This is when you feel like jacking it in.

[gangster]

i can only mirror everyones comments, they never take the crap!!!..needs a sorting im afraid...

[dwh]

What a shame for a cracking doo.

 

Put slug bait mixed into a paste on the corpse but be sure to keep the rest of the doos out the way.

 

ant killer another 1

[Roland]

Ive taken my precautions maybe if everyone did the same we could do something about it  

 

Sensible post that! Realism and straight common sense.

Terrible as it is, and it is, my only thought would be 'Well at least it won't be ripping another bird to pieces'!

[Guest Thunder Birds]

gutted for you alex and john , hows the rest of the team as this would of prob upset them , great pigeon one question he wasnt raced as a youngster now was he trained up as a youngun ? yours rob

 

Trained up to 50 miles. Meant he was a bit of a late starter but he was a full brother to Kennedy, Carrol and Walker's 'The Bull' so we didn't want to push him too hard! Of a pair of cocks we decided to race one and keep one for stock. Following a (hopefully) successful year racing in 2010 we had a box next to his brother in the stock loft reserved for him!

 

Rest of the team ok to be honest because he was out of sync with the team due to a broken nest. Meant he was nestbuilding on his own - hence the reason he was caught off his guard!

[REDROCKET]

gutted sorry mate we should all put up the pics like this for rspb members that browse this site to look at and the so called bird lovers might take action lol

[yorkie]

there is no doubt that this hobby will sometimes cost you your very best, we wait a long time for a bird as special as this to come along, and to see that picture is terrible, gutted for you, hope you got a few young off him at least.

[lawrie]

nice bird, shame about the birds ending

[Guest wattle]

sorry for your loss, action must be taken, i have pease and quite now for the past two weeks and all it took was 5 catrigdes and a good aim.  

[Mealy Cock]

I was gutted when I say your bird eaten, what a promissing bird it was looking to be.

 

I challenged the RSPB to start compensating people who had lost live stock or birds to BOP. Upto now they have not replied

to any of my letter, put a value on the bird and e-mail the RSPB with the picture and post their reply.

 

From what I have seen on this board says greatly the RSPB have got their sums wrong, here is part of an e-mail from

the RSPB to myself: Pigeons fail to return to their lofts for a variety of reasons. A UK

wide study by the Government's UK Raptor Working Group found that:

 

straying and exhaustion accounted for 36 per cent of losses

collisions with solid objects like buildings and windows - 19 per cent

of losses

collisions with overhead wires - 15 per cent of losses

predation by birds of prey - 14 per cent of losses

shooting, entanglement in netting, poisoning and oiling - 8 per cent of

losses

predation by mammals, including domestic cats - 8 per cent of losses.

An average loft in the UK houses 73 racing pigeons - the research

indicates that a typical owner will lose 38 pigeons each year. Of these,

just over five would be killed by sparrowhawks and peregrines while 14

will have strayed, gone feral or died of starvation and exhaustion;

seven will have died in a collision, six will have hit overhead wires;

three will have been shot, poisoned or oiled, and three will have been

eaten by a mammal. Both Pigeon and Dove numbers are doing well and are

not declining.

[Guest Freebird]

What a stuning pic of a cracking bird. As previously said get it sorted or you'll be losing more. Sorry to see this.

[kev01293]

sorry to see that pic thunderbirds  what a bird to lose   its got beyond a joke now with bops and ive also taken precautions like josh and done my bit   but u have got to be so careful now  as sure as night follows day nobody is gonna help us but ourselves