percy attack

glad you got something that survived ray, do you want to get those dogs back for the attack...? if so ive something which you could add to a nice peice of meat that will, shall we say.....liven them up a bit.

i know what your saying david but i suppose its not their fault really, just doing what they know to be honest....anyway that pied hen was going to be a good bird, its half sister to the pied i put on yesterday . the bloke i bought the mother off said she will breed winners for me , i put her with 2 of my best cocks this year and last, but i do,nt think she will be racing this season now,i might put her with the cock i got off steve the other day.hopefully they will breed me some winners

ray you need to resize your pics to medium

postage stamp size for mealys lol

i did ian will have another go tomorrow

whats the yellowy coloured bird in the photo ray....?

its just the light,they are 2 blue one with white on it

ray think davids refering to the westie on the first pic

why dont yous all do what i do in summer and go bird nesting

peel bros wrote:

this hen survived the attack

no ray that ant blue................

shes bin busy this week 9 members in our club had attacks some lost a couple.there working hard this year

making up for the hard hungry winter they have just been through, and also stocking up on food for the babies in april..........

well they defo got a full belly down here mate its unbelievable

dread letting mine out..........

same as that mate its not bin my luk latley

Yep they are stocking up for sure, If you look at the derby cam there are now quite a few dead birds in the nest there ready, she wont get much of what she likes when the cock is hunting, so shes off to tesco,s each morning after the best.
I am driving our training lorry this year so Im going to keep a video diary each day, then will post the results up here each time, maybe get a good video of percy doing her worst.

martyn, i remember readin in one of the weeklies that before liberation the convoyer lets a couple of rockets off out of site of the pigeons, they dont bang but eject stars etc which he swears scares any bops/hawks away and enables a safe liberation.....

I know some members here have let flare rockets off as the perigrine is chaising thier birds, and it makes no difference, but bangs do stop them, I shoot at them with the 12 bore and they disapear fast.

we need more than rockets we need a tank

Rudderfett wrote:

I know some members here have let flare rockets off as the perigrine is chaising thier birds, and it makes no difference, but bangs do stop them, I shoot at them with the 12 bore and they disapear fast.

have you managed to hit one ever martyn...../

Yes last year I had 1 every morning hitting my youngsters at 8.00am. one day he came in a bit too close and I had her. not been able to get 1 in that close again, but the bang is enough to stop them attaking the birds once you see 1.

dont suppose i`d be able to so that martyn, a shotgun going off in the middle of a housing estate might attract a bit of attention.............the air rifle should be enough to stop a hawk in its tracks tho, dont you think.

I am lucky, I live on a farm no real neybours around and no one living too close, Im always in my fields shooting pigeons(woodies) and rabbits and foxes so no one would blink an eye If I am out shooting, as I am on most days anyway. Remember if you have a sparrow hawk attack and it downs a bird, weather or not its dead or not, it will come back for a second look always, then is your chance. You could make a dummy bird up easy, If you have a dead pigeon as we do most years, cut the wings off and keep them, they dry out and as theres not much flesh on them the dont smell. Make what looks like a bird out of an old sock and attatch the wings to the side then put it where it downed the bird, I garentee it will come back and land on it, this is where you rair gun will come in usefull.

Rudderfett wrote:

I am lucky, I live on a farm no real neybours around and no one living too close, Im always in my fields shooting pigeons(woodies) and rabbits and foxes so no one would blink an eye If I am out shooting, as I am on most days anyway. Remember if you have a sparrow hawk attack and it downs a bird, weather or not its dead or not, it will come back for a second look always, then is your chance. You could make a dummy bird up easy, If you have a dead pigeon as we do most years, cut the wings off and keep them, they dry out and as theres not much flesh on them the dont smell. Make what looks like a bird out of an old sock and attatch the wings to the side then put it where it downed the bird, I garentee it will come back and land on it, this is where you rair gun will come in usefull.

Martyn that is something to think about for the future mate "Brilliant"

just ad my young birds out 10 mins and sat with them i saw this bird sat near chimday i thought it was 1 ov my birds .like fuck it was i seen it fly off came down straight on to me avery top all birds wen crazy scatterd allover the place now im 1 missin .wens this goin to STOP