Bop Pictures

[sapper756]

Sparrowhawk

http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/birds/thumb-sparrowhawk-2575.jpg

Hen Harrier

http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/birds/thumb-hen-harrier-450.jpg

Kestrel

http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/birds/thumb-kestrel-1809.jpg

Black Kite

http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/birds/thumb-black-kite-41249.jpg

Black Kite

Lanner Falkonhttp://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/birds/thumb-lanner-falkon-422.jpg

Crested Goshawk

http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/sevcik/thumb-crested-goshawk--accipiter-trivirgatus.jpg

Greater Kestrel

http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/sevcik/thumb-greater-kestrel--falco_rupicoloides.jpg

Peregrine

http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/sevcik/thumb-peregrine--sokol1.jpg

Red Kite

http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/photos/sevcik/thumb-red-kite---lunak_dsd4478.jpg

Red Kite

Peregrine

 

Greater Kestre

 

Crested Goshawk

 

 

 

 

Lanner Falkon

 

 

Kestrel

 

Hen Harrier

 

Sparrowhawk CLICK ON THESE OR THE PICTURE FOR MORE INFO

 

 

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Edited August 9, 2010 by sapper756

[Guest mick bowler]

 

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WHAT CHANCE DO OUR BIRDS HAVE

 

Only a few of them are a danger to our birds.

 

What chance? Well PM me your mobile number and i'll send you a few pics of BOP!

[sapper756]

Only a few of them are a danger to our birds.

 

What chance? Well PM me your mobile number and i'll send you a few pics of BOP!

 

 

So which ones do you reckon are a danger?

[billt]

So which ones do you reckon are a danger?

Hen S/hawk, male and female Goshawk and both percys of course

[Guest mick bowler]

Hen S/hawk, male and female Goshawk and both percys of course

 

 

A few of the others may be able to take a pigeon too, but only if the pigeon is injure or unwell, including the kestrel and the hen harrier.

 

Not that it is native to this country, but did you know the lanner will take pigeons and a lot more successfully than a peregrine!! Lets hope the RSPB get no ideas!!

[billt]

A few of the others may be able to take a pigeon too, but only if the pigeon is injure or unwell, including the kestrel and the hen harrier.

 

Not that it is native to this country, but did you know the lanner will take pigeons and a lot more successfully than a peregrine!! Lets hope the RSPB get no ideas!!

Yeh the Lanner a popular falconers bird, lets hope it never breeds in the wild here, when I was a kid the Goshawk hadn't arrived and now it's on the British bird list

[Rooster J. Cogburn]

Obviously sparrowhawks,peregrines and goshawks are the main killers of racing pigeons but loads of the others are pretty much equally as dangerous to the pigeon fancy.

If their populations were to increase then they would eat more songbirds and others such stuff the big 3 could eat leaving them with no real choice but to eat folks doos.

I can see it at my bit just now,there is not a lot of BOPs near me atm but there has been a few sightings of the sparrowhen in recent weeks.She's not touching the pigeons,can keep herself happy just now with easy pickings such as baby blackbirds etc. but once they're down a bit the doos will start getting hit again.

See that guy writing in the BHW about the red kites being introduced into Cumbria."Its fine cause they don't eat pigeons"this may be true but they will force the sparrowhawks to eat even MORE of them.

[Guest mick bowler]

I can see it at my bit just now,there is not a lot of BOPs near me atm but there has been a few sightings of the sparrowhen in recent weeks.She's not touching the pigeons,can keep herself happy just now with easy pickings such as baby blackbirds etc. but once they're down a bit the doos will start getting hit again.

 

 

The reason why the sparrowhawks wont prey on pigeons as much thru the summer is that they prey on birds that they can take back to the nest for the young to feed on, not even a female can carry a pigeon a long way. As they fledge, pigeon comes back on the menu.

[geordie1234]

Its a total minefield for doos out there int it

 

 

Does anyone genuinely believe the bops will get sorted to help the fanciers out or do you think its just going to get worse