Ain't Pigeon Fancying Interesting

[Walter swanston]

I hust love racing pigeons, over the years I have coped with peregrines, sparrow Hawks and the occasional cat.This morning while enjoying my early morning coffee and watching the young birds circling in the sky I was.amazed to see a large dog fox strolling nonchalantly across my lawn.By the time I got my young boxer unearthed from her bed and out on patrol the fox had gone but that is something else to keep an eye out for.

[yeboah]

I hust love racing pigeons, over the years I have coped with peregrines, sparrow Hawks and the occasional cat.This morning while enjoying my early morning coffee and watching the young birds circling in the sky I was.amazed to see a large dog fox strolling nonchalantly across my lawn.By the time I got my young boxer unearthed from her bed and out on patrol the fox had gone but that is something else to keep an eye out for.

Certainly got it all here Walter

The Badger that made its residence under my loft has appeared back in the neighbours Garden

We also have a very large hawk which I cannot identify ,Have spoken to the Hawk Lads and they can't give me an answer either

[hotrod]

Certainly got it all here Walter

The Badger that made its residence under my loft has appeared back in the neighbours Garden

We also have a very large hawk which I cannot identify ,Have spoken to the Hawk Lads and they can't give me an answer either

Seen one here last week Michael , much bigger than the seagulls that were herrassing it ,I was thinking like an osprey ??.??

[Blue Chequer Pied]

Seen one here last week Michael , much bigger than the seagulls that were herrassing it ,I was thinking like an osprey ??.??

 

The ospreys pass over my house every day Stuart. They are often harassed by seagulls that try to get them to give up their catch so you could be spot on pal.

[Guest stb-]

Certainly got it all here Walter

The Badger that made its residence under my loft has appeared back in the neighbours Garden

We also have a very large hawk which I cannot identify ,Have spoken to the Hawk Lads and they can't give me an answer either

there was a big strange hawk here since last year killed 3 of my pigeons but was good at ambushing wood pigeons from trees high on the hill as they passed almost looked a cross between a buzzerd and some type of falcon , thankfully it has vanished now .

[Guest stb-]

I hust love racing pigeons, over the years I have coped with peregrines, sparrow Hawks and the occasional cat.This morning while enjoying my early morning coffee and watching the young birds circling in the sky I was.amazed to see a large dog fox strolling nonchalantly across my lawn.By the time I got my young boxer unearthed from her bed and out on patrol the fox had gone but that is something else to keep an eye out for.

In 2004 the vixen ripped of the bottom weatherboard in my y bird loft got in and killed the whole 100 young uns all crushed through the back had only been shifted a week so prob heard them squeaking . A year latter another vixen smashed my plastic sputnik to bits and killed 60 old birds what a mess they make . My m8 the fox catcher took out 13 of them in 6 weeks no problens since but have the dogs out most of the time now , they are opertunists and not to be trusted

[Blue Chequer Pied]

there was a big strange hawk here since last year killed 3 of my pigeons but was good at ambushing wood pigeons from trees high on the hill as they passed almost looked a cross between a buzzerd and some type of falcon , thankfully it has vanished now .

 

 

Sounds like a goshawk Rab, you dont want one of those *&*%$£* round the loft they are deadly! There was one here that the doo's seen coming and they vanished. I then saw something that if I hadn't seen with my own eyes I wouldn't believe. The goshawk then started trying to catch house martins, it was like watching the red arrows in a dog fight. Fortunately the house martins won but the agility and speed of the goshawk was frightening! I think it was a juvenile male with not much of a clue!

[yeboah]

Seen one here last week Michael , much bigger than the seagulls that were herrassing it ,I was thinking like an osprey ??.??

Had Osprey here for few years now Stuart ,this one is Brown I was even thinking along the lines of a young Eagle ?

[hotrod]

Had Osprey here for few years now Stuart ,this one is Brown I was even thinking along the lines of a young Eagle ?

It was very far up pal couldn't make out the colour ,after looking up Hawks I thought it might have been an osprey by the shape of the wings , but who knows what it was went to get my binoculars was around 10/15 seconds and it was gone out of sight , but the gulls were still circling .