Difficult Times

[swilcox]

We have in Bristol very active peregrines, i have them at my loft on a daily basis.

 

For two weeks they have been chasing my young birds around and now they dont want to fly, my widowhood cocks also seem scared and this morning i could see why, he hit them and he took a two year cock that was due to go to Tarbes, he didnt take him away but must of damaged him enough he couldnt return. Not the best preperation for the first National race on Saturday, how can i expect them to perform when they cant freely fly the skies.

 

Its getting hard.

 

I think its time to get a team of Tipplers

[pjc]

make sure the tipplers are the jacketed breed

[Guest]

We have in Bristol very active peregrines, i have them at my loft on a daily basis.

 

For two weeks they have been chasing my young birds around and now they dont want to fly, my widowhood cocks also seem scared and this morning i could see why, he hit them and he took a two year cock that was due to go to Tarbes, he didnt take him away but must of damaged him enough he couldnt return. Not the best preperation for the first National race on Saturday, how can i expect them to perform when they cant freely fly the skies.

 

Its getting hard.

 

I think its time to get a team of Tipplers

 

aye it's a nightmare, I kept my birds in all winter until april, only to lose four or fivethe first two weeks around the loft. I thought now I would be safe cause the percy hen would be sitting around the clock (sparowhawks everywhere but can live with them!). Got the birds in mid morning yesterday, went in and fed them, came out, walked up the field to my car, turned to get in and there at about 40' was a bloody big hawk hovering over the loft, watching a few youngsters in the trap. The thing is I didn't know what it was, looked like a falcons wing, (definatley not a buzzrd, he was cicrling near by threatening whatever it was)but looked to big to be a peregrine! Must admit I'm not sure waht a Goshawk looks like, know they've been down at Haldon a good few years, hope I ain't got them around here, bad enough with my resident pair of peregrines in the quarry a mile away.

Hope them tipplers frighten them away when they find there's no meat on them.

[The Navigator]

You are not alone Stu. I got hit around my loft on Sunday again. They have had two in three days. It's a complete joke at the moment.

[milecrosslofts]

if you let your birds out at the same time every day the hawks get to know when they are out,i found that two years back, now i stagger the times i let them out not lost one to a hawk since.but thats not saying they 100% safe from a hawk atack but it helps a grate deal