How Many Birds Hawked At The Weekend

[frank-123]

Looking after my mates birds got 2 home with feathers missing.

Just be interested in if other guys were the same.

[Kyleakin Lofts]

None hawked, but 11 still out, so might not have been lucky enough to get away.

[james mcguire]

I know Walter Boswell got two back hawked

[budgie]

Another 3 down on Saturday from Melton M and 3 today from Dunbar.

[bigbill]

not at the race, but 2 training tosses, one elsrickle, and one at Bathgate, 2 missing and 2 back rip and missing feathers, trying to get some ready for the backtrack race,

[lanarkshire lad]

One back today hawked .

[Wiley]

2 so far

[lanarkshire lad]

My son got one back yesterday hawked everybody's getting it .

[frank-123]

This time seems to be the worst. I think the young hawks leaving the nest cant quite grab the doos properly and the pigeons can get away.

[grdkeith]

This time seems to be the worst. I think the young hawks leaving the nest cant quite grab the doos properly and the pigeons can get away.

 

 

Do you think young hawks would be fledged already?

[robbiedoo.]

Looking after my mates birds got 2 home with feathers missing.

Just be interested in if other guys were the same.

 

I got 2 back late Saturday night we cuts down the side o them this year is my worst ever for having my pigeons injured I am averaging 2 per week.

[grdkeith]

I got 2 back late Saturday night we cuts down the side o them this year is my worst ever for having my pigeons injured I am averaging 2 per week.

 

I have 3 back this week hurt as well Robbie , I would say all 3 have flown into wires etc, I dont believe that most injuries are raptor related, imo more down to the north and east winds, more north east forecast for the weekend

[gordi.b]

One home from Leicester last night minus a few flights and three missing , yb hawked last night as well

[Tony C]

Do you think young hawks would be fledged already?

photo taken on the 19th May, another couple of weeks till they fledge, the worse is yet to come.

[robbiedoo.]

I have 3 back this week hurt as well Robbie , I would say all 3 have flown into wires etc, I dont believe that most injuries are raptor related, imo more down to the north and east winds, more north east forecast for the weekend

 

The majority of the injuries have been to the breast which would of been caused by hitting wires but I don't the it was the wires that caused cuts down their side under the wing jmo

[hotrod]

I have 3 back this week hurt as well Robbie , I would say all 3 have flown into wires etc, I dont believe that most injuries are raptor related, imo more down to the north and east winds, more north east forecast for the weekend

George if a raptor hits a batch of pigeons yes it might get one but others g in all directions trying to get away and some of these hit wires branches of trees etc ,so imho lots of injuries are caused by bop .

[grdkeith]

George if a raptor hits a batch of pigeons yes it might get one but others g in all directions trying to get away and some of these hit wires branches of trees etc ,so imho lots of injuries are caused by bop .

 

Undoubtedly lots caused by hawks directly or cos of fleeing attack, but years ago when pigeons came home damaged we blamed wires or other obstacles but nowadays all injuries in some lofts are classed as hawked !!

have pigeons now stopped hitting things by accident?

[frank-123]

Do you think young hawks would be fledged already?

 

Think the next two or three weeks most will be up in the sky. They start laying in March into April ... 29 days till they hatch and a further 35 days until they leave the nest according to the Rspb site.

[William Reid]

Had two away at the weekend only got one home.. The wound doesn't look as bad now.

 

[hotrod]

Undoubtedly lots caused by hawks directly or cos of fleeing attack, but years ago when pigeons came home damaged we blamed wires or other obstacles but nowadays all injuries in some lofts are classed as hawked !!

have pigeons now stopped hitting things by accident?

George read my post I never said birds don't just hit wires , yes years ago I got birds home ,looking like they hit wires on way home , they were few and far between , maybe one a season , now it seems to be just about every week .

[grdkeith]

George read my post I never said birds don't just hit wires , yes years ago I got birds home ,looking like they hit wires on way home , they were few and far between , maybe one a season , now it seems to be just about every week .

 

I have more hurt this year but with the north in the wind most weeks I think that could be a big factor

[moscow master]

I've 7 in the loft finished for the year and it's defo Percy or flying into wooded areas to escape and I've lost 12 old birds at the garden between sparra hen and Percy also 16 ybs tally Ho already 👎must be mental to race doos now next year will be worse and the following worse than next and so on....

[bibendium]

one of this weeks candidates hawked at training today

[Grizzlecock]

I've had three birds down the breast just under the wing but . I think they are getting injured coming out of the aluminium crates in our transporter, just my opinion

[trueblue]

Robbie empty ur in box u can't received pms