FIGHT FOR OUR AIRSPACE. Â

[vanlink]

Recently I have been reading in the BHW about the efforts that the RPRA are starting to make over various issues, My English literature teacher told me to avoid this word (I’m a dialectic country bumpkin from rural Herefordshire so I can use it), BUT BUT BUT it ain’t nearly enough. They are going to send BT and The rspb a letter telling them how naughty they are to put up a couple of hawk boxes in Swansea, That should stop them and solve all the Hawk problems.

 

Please please please understand this.

 

YOU ARE NOT DOING ENOUGH.

 

We the members are suffering. Do we the members need to propose rule changes to get you the management to take your responsibilities seriously? We do not want you to go to Royal Garden Parties where you will eat nice cakes and drink nice tea, We do not want you wearing chains around your neck and staying in fancy hotels. We want you to put some real effort in.

 

FIGHT FOR OUR AIRSPACE.  

 

The ‘UK study 1997-98’ one word JOKE.

 

Pigeons stray because they are chased by birds of prey.

Pigeons hit buildings, trees and wires because they are chased by birds of prey.

I and thousands of others have birds eaten alive because of birds of prey.

 

This year is surly worse than ever, and if it is already causing some of our precious members to think about leaving the Hobby (not a sport) then we have a crisis.  

 

ROYAL pigeon racing association

ROYAL society for the protection of birds.

 

Spot the same word in both headings. There seems to be a bit of irony here. Why don’t you Graciously ask your Majesty to get a grip on the rspb? Sort it out or take the ROYAL away.

 

Here’s an other IRONY society for the ‘protection of birds’; is a pigeon not a bird? How can they protect the few that destroy so many?

 

Here’s a little idea from a simple country boy. Why don’t we make or commission a programme to be made highlighting the carnage. Visual stimulus is very affective. The images of a pigeon one moment taking peanuts and having some play fighting with its owner and the next having its chest ripped open by a hawk might just make some one think twice before putting some money in a rspb collection box.  

 

FIGHT FOR OUR AIRSPACE.      

 

[walterbmasson]

 

 

vanlink what i cant understand why a few hundred MP VOTED INTO OFFICE BY MILLIONS OF US WHENEVER VOTED INTO OFFICE WHAT DO THEY DO STEAL AS MUCH AS THEY CAN OFF US WHEN YOU ASK FOR HELP ABOUT OUR PIGEONS TO GET A BIT PROTECTION AGAINST HAWKS ( ALL THEY DO IS ALLOW THIS IDIOTS TO PROTECT THESE KILLERS ) ( INFACT ALL YOUR DOING IS VOTING IN A LEGALISED MAFFIA JUST INTERESTED IN PROTECTING THEM SELVES EVERY DAY IN THE MEDIA YOU HERE ABOUT WHAT THESE POLITICANS ARE FIT FOR BUT I CAN TELL YOU I AM NOT GOING TO BE AFRAID TO PROTECT MY BIRDS WHY SHOULD I THESE RSPB IDIOTS ARE PROTECTING THESE KILLERS TO KILL MORE OF OUR BIRDS IN THE MOST BARBARIC WAY BEING EATEN ALIVE WHY HAVE WE JUST TO SIT BACK AND ALLOW THESE IDIOTS TO MAKE UP THESE LUDICROUS RULES ( ALL THESE MP;S ARE INTRESTED IN IS DUMPING TERRORISTS FROM OTHER COUNTRYS GIVING THEM ALL HAND OUTS FOR THE REST OF THERE LIFES JUST WHAT AMERICA SAID RECENTLY BRITAIN IS A DUMPING GROUND FOR TERRORISTS ( BUT ITS VERY SAD WERE AFRAID TO STICK UP FOR OUR BIRDS )IF A HAWK ENTERS MY SPACE WHERE MY LOFT IS I AM NOT SORRY IF I CAN GET IT THATS THE END OF THE MATTERIF THESE IDIOTS ARE WILLING TO GO OUT OF THERE WAY TO KILL OUR BIRDS ITSABOUT TIME WE FOUGHT BACK ;;;;;;;;;

[BLACK W F]

WELL SAID WALTER

[Guest numpty01]

when you bump into peaple collecting for the rspb you always have a notice board of all our finches and small birds looking so loverly  its about time we all thought of way to make public the facts to normal peaple that think they are donateing to save the small birds but in fact are distroying them by donateing no money means no rspb mind you they are proberbly the largest landowners in this country all bought with donateions

[Guest chrisss]

walter well said, at the end of the day the unions will not help, they are part of the establishment,just like the rspb,i am afraid that  if you have a hawk problem its "back to basics" a situation which calls for a little diy

[les]

WHY has no one ever asked the RSPB  how many BOP is enough ,they must have a certain number in mind ,simple realy is it not . i would but i could not talk civilized to the *expletive removed* ,

[walterbmasson]

 

 

THE SAD THING ABOUT THESE RSPB ITS A STUPID UNIFORM THEY WEAR THEY THINK THEY ARE SOMETHING OF AUTHORITY TO ME THERE A BUNCH OF AROGANT PLONKERS THAT THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL OUR BIRDS OR ALLOW OUR BIRDS FOR DINNER TO PERIGANS EVERY DAY 365DAYS A YEAR IVE TAKEN THE LAW INTO MY HANDS A LOT OF TIMES I WONT GO INTO THAT BUT BELIEVE IT OR NOT IT WAS MY BIRDS THAT STEADIED ME UP BUT IF I HAD TO I WOULDNT STAND ANY RUBBISH REGARDING PROTECTING OUR SPORT AND OUR INNOCENT PIGEONS (UNIFORMS TO ME AND A VAN WITH RSPB SHOULD BE ADVERTISED AS WHAT IT SHOULD MEAN HARVESTING KILLERS OF ALL OUR SONG BIRDS PIGEONS ETC > > >

[vanlink]

All in agreement then.

[tigger]

yes

[valteng]

[vanlink]

Well I asked and they responded, so thank you for that.

 

David Bills has introduced in his article 'The Reddings' an effort to address the hawk problem. I do not want to write out the whole article so here it is in a nutshell, I have put it as quotes but it is my interpretation of his words:

 

'There are not only many letters in the BHW, post on forums and comments verbally about hawk attacks but it seems that the general public are now getting distressed as highlighted by the daily stray reports at the Reddings.'

To me this means we are probably in our best ever position to really highlight the whole hawk situation to the general public.

 

We need to redouble our efforts and contain the damage being done to our birds so I propose that we do this through ‘Hawk Watch’. ‘Hawk Watch’ will be done to show hotspots to be presented on a map for publication in the bhw monthly and to collect data to present to the appropriate authorities at the end of the season. The scheme is dependent on you the fancier reporting verifiable hawk strikes. You will be able to do this in two ways.

 

EMAIL: hawks@britishhomingworld.co.uk with the subject heading ‘Hawk Watch’

LETTER: ‘Hawk Watch’ address to BHW Welshpool or RPRA Reddings.

 

Record date, time, location and effect of attack fatal/injured/escaped: and whether the attack was seen.

 

I hope that Hawk Watch is seen as a proactive attempt by the RPRA.

[cowman]

maybe all convoyers can join in with this by counting bop`s at lib sites and reporting attacks on pigeons as they leave the wagons .