Bop strike

Another strike this morning hens out me in the stock loft cleaning out then the birds were going everywhere ran out the loft without treading on anything and saw it sitting on the fence saw me and off it went small brown thing about 14/16 inches long that’s all I saw

try putting a mirror  on the post or flashing beacon

George & Morgan wrote:

try putting a mirror  on the post or flashing beacon

Only ever had two raptor strikes and there is only one cure, it was two, two in my case, killed one of my best hens in one case, left the bodies and waited for the pests to come back and shot them.

Heart breaking.

Regards.

the mirror worked for me i had a 6ft mirror along the front of the loft on the floor tilted up at a 45 degree angle i also had those ornamental steel balls dotted about the garden,one lad had them drilled out and put on poles in front of the loft they dont seem to like shiny reflective things

same as darren, when i had mine flying out i always had a couple of big mirrors tilted towards the sun, they dont like the reflection ....it worked for me.

David wrote:

same as darren, when i had mine flying out i always had a couple of big mirrors tilted towards the sun, they dont like the reflection ....it worked for me.

If it works a cheap way of protecting your pigeons around the loft, and gives a
sense of security, pity is there are too many raptors, some raptors not taking pigeons but the food those that do used to eat making the likes of peregrines and sparrowhawks turning to easy prey, our feathered friends.

Can see in nature that predation must take place to have constant continuity of all species but our feathered friends are not intended to be easy meals.

Regards.

Will try all of the them was the mirror just an ordinary one or something specific got lots of cd disc’s get my self organised in the mornings before work thanks for the advice lad’s

gardeners would use cd discs to keep wood pigeon away

just ordinary mirrors mark, as big as possible in my opinion .....tilt them at an angle that reflects the sun .

worth a try, i suppose everything is different for different areas and if bops/hawks are in big numbers etc.......ive a lot of trees around my loft and crows / magpies nesting in them which attack the hawks.

Used cds all over the garden plus fake owls ect ect and still they come , a nightmare. Hope you get the bloody thing. I have my air rifle on standby lol... they beed sorted

peel bros wrote:

Used cds all over the garden plus fake owls ect ect and still they come , a nightmare.  Hope you get the bloody thing.  I have my air rifle on standby lol... they beed sorted

Thats what I like Ray a true bird lover type etc .