hook beak is back

[Guest mikkey]

my nemesis the sparrow hawk is well and truly back on the scene, the tw*ts had 5 birds in the last 6 to 8 weeks  :-/ :-/ :-/

[OLDYELLOW]

dont let your birds out in the closed season , then he'll after find another food source , bonfire night coming up stock up on the cheap small rockets

[OLDYELLOW]

i was watching the sky the other night the starlings were swarming around in about three groups and the hawk was diving amongst them , shame im in a built up area , but ill be buying a few rockets for bonfire night

[The Game Keeper]

a larson trap is legal pity if hook beak goes in because he will easy and simple method working when your,e not even there keep telling people a very succesfull method

[Roland]

a larson trap is legal pity if hook beak goes in because he will easy and simple method working when your,e not even there keep telling people a very succesfull method

 

Which is the Larsen trap?

Like the wire cage with the Bottle neck  down in centre with false bottom. They can't fly out because they have to open their  wings. Yes great climbers... but don't climb downwards when the come to the wire downwards in centre about 4/ 5 inches.

Having said that A young hen did get out one this last year, and still around, but doesn't get near the cage now.

[ChrisMaidment08]

bird on floor surrounded by welding rods works well to   strikes ta ta

[mark proctor]

dont let your birds out in the closed season , then he'll after find another food source , bonfire night coming up stock up on the cheap small rockets

 

ah mark...thats a great idea...i will buy loads to fire on the factory roof to scare all the ferrals of... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D there riddled in deseases and sometimes my birds land with them and start necking with them...yack.. :( :(im sick of treating them for this and that because of them ferrals..

[Roland]

bird on floor surrounded by welding rods works well to   strikes ta ta

 

Same as having them in a Fish tank then!

[Guest IB]

 

ah mark...thats a great idea...i will buy loads to fire on the factory roof to scare all the ferrals of... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D there riddled in deseases and sometimes my birds land with them and start necking with them...yack.. :( :(im sick of treating them for this and that because of them ferrals..

 

Not so much on the side of the ferals - tho they react in exactly the same way when a hawk is in the area - as the general wild bird population.

 

Don't know how you would go about it, but getting the pigeons plugged into the grapevine and 'streetwise' seems a much more sensible idea than hiding them away for the winter.

 

Mine seem to take their cue from the wild bird behaviour, and they are often airborne and above the hawk before I even see it.

 

Sparrowhawk is different I know, ambush merchant, need to make sure it has nowhere to hide in your garden to launch stealth attack on the pigeons. Having said that, pigeons need to be alert & on their guard at all times too.

[Guest IB]

a larson trap is legal pity if hook beak goes in because he will easy and simple method working when your,e not even there keep telling people a very succesfull method

 

Worth mentioning legal only when licensed and licensed only for catching corvids, using only corvid bait. Otherwise, as was reported in BHW last year by fancier who was caught with a trap - an empty one at that - £5000 fine.

[ChrisMaidment08]

useing weding rods perfectly legal as its a pixi ring for kids to watch at night

[the pigeon_milker]

my nemesis the sparrow hawk is well and truly back on the scene, the tw*ts had 5 birds in the last 6 to 8 weeks  :-/ :-/ :-/

 

 

we was attacked last week while we were sat there with them but they all got away

bit to close for there liking three of them did a run for it and the rest dived in the shed quick time