f***in sparrow hawk

[shotgun tim]

out with the ybs today they was having a bath a hen sparrow hawk flew over the hedge and gripped 1 10ft away from me and the wife and 2 kids playing in the garden,i jumped up got it off it it flew away got the ybs in went up half hour later a yb was dead in the loft not a mark on it all i can think is it must of died of shock

[dick]

lost one yesterday to the sparrow hawk

[VAGIN]

Same happenedat my mates today we were talking in the back garden a sparrowhawk nip in and took a cock from about 15 ft away cock has disapeared   What can we do?????

[shotgun tim]

iv put the bird in the trap hopefully i will get it and relocate it ;)

[VAGIN]

"AMEN BROTHER " FINGERS X FOR YOU 8)

[Guest numpty01]

stretch cat gut across garden it will be back they useualy follow same hunting route might hurt its self though as it hits gut

[shotgun tim]

my garden is too big to do the cat gut

[Guest ljb107]

out with the ybs today they was having a bath a hen sparrow hawk flew over the hedge and gripped 1 10ft away from me and the wife and 2 kids playing in the garden,i jumped up got it off it it flew away got the ybs in went up half hour later a yb was dead in the loft not a mark on it all i can think is it must of died of shock

 

Sorry to hear that, it probably did die of shock.

 

Just don't send the bloomin things down my way.

 

Lloyd

[shotgun tim]

only in a bin bag ha ha ;)

[Guest ljb107]

Thats the best way. ;)

[OLDYELLOW]

sorry to hear , hope it moves on

[shotgun tim]

if i get it it will move on to the next world ;)yours are still here oldyellow

[VAGIN]

Does that mean we hang the bin bags too the cat gut . so they can fly into it

[OLDYELLOW]

good to here , dip the cock in green vegitable food colouring   it has worked in the past

[Guest 67ghirl]

This afternoon a Sparrowhawk tried to take out the pigeons at about 200 feet up - first time We've witnessed a Sparrowhawk attack at this height! -  shortly after we heard a commotion from kids coming from the old railway line that runs alongside the Garden.

Then a Blue Cock shot off down the line about 5 feet off the ground.

He came in about an hour later with only 1 tail feather and ripped to shreds under his wing  

This is the 4th victim this week the other 3 were kills!

[wayne77]

Sorry to hear that Tim, bloody things

[shotgun tim]

get eggy out hel scare anything away ;D

[Guest casbri]

tim i had a sparrow hawk 2 week since it got a bird in my yard  frightened to let birds out now

[mac1]

iv put the bird in the trap hopefully i will get it and relocate it ;)

 

hi tim sorry to hear i have some mist nets if you need them

[shotgun tim]

never tried mist nets how do you use them?

[Guest 67ghirl]

get eggy out hel scare anything away ;D

 

He'll need to use the Trampoline me thinks  ;D

 

How did your race go?

 

 

[shotgun tim]

held over today

[Guest 67ghirl]

Bummer - let's hope our weather continues further down then tomorrow  

[Guest IB]

half hour later a yb was dead in the loft not a mark on it all i can think is it must of died of shock

 

Think you'll find there's a wound there. One of my yearlings got pinned to the ground last year, thought the same as yourself as she seemed OK when I first got her in. Came home from work and she was huddled & feathers blown. I found a single 'puncture' wound where I think the sparrowhawk's talon had gone into her chest. A clubmate reckons the hawk's claw works like a ratchet, if the prey struggles then the claw tightens up and the talons go deeper (and stay deep). Your's being a young bird, more chances of this causing internal injury and death?

 

 

[Guest marksimpson]

it seems like an epedemic as ive had young bird killed by sparrow hawk hen this morning she stripped it to the bone came back this evening for seconds whats it all going to come to its about time these birds were culled to a resonable number like they used to be back in the days when you could . yours in sport mark condolences to all how have lost young birds to hawks .