BOP strike today

We had our cocks out today only been out 30,seconds 2,peregrines in to them we got them all on the loft then another member further up the allotments put there cocks out and ours took of with them they were in them again.Then they went on the pylons waiting for another strike 2,pigeons were coming back to the other loft when they took off and killed them both we got all ours back today but they arent going out for a while now its been a stressing day. Then the Sparrowhawk had a go at 2,cocks

sorry to hear this v/reetman, over the last week or so ive heard of it happening all over ............they seem to be out in force already.

hope you have more luck from now on with them.

dont think theirs a worse time to let yer birds out than march and april ..damn things tbh its not the bops fault its the do gooders over populating them by putting up nest sites and taking them out of their natural habitat and of course their breeding programmes especialy gos hawks just now

A club mate of mine has lost four hens to percy in the last week, another member had a youngster taken on its first day out, at this rate mine will have to miss the first 2 races, im not feeding the Bops, usually eases off by the 2nd week of april, so will have to wait until then.

i know its bad news with the BOP , but why don,t you breed later on so there hatching out when the BOP are sitting in early april once the hen BOP is sitting she doesn,t come off the nest so you will have a clear period to let your yb out . i live in a very highly populated area of BOP but in the last 4-5 years my birds are on open hole all day ob and yb and i can count on one hand how many ive lost . good luck

Talking to a member of our club and he said yesterday afternoon he has a cat trap set and inside it were a Sparrow Hawk.

VanReet Man123 wrote:

Talking to a member of our club and he said yesterday afternoon he has a cat trap set and inside it were a Sparrow Hawk.

i hope he relocated it the legal way sean

seanl wrote:

VanReet Man123 wrote:

Talking to a member of our club and he said yesterday afternoon he has a cat trap set and inside it were a Sparrow Hawk.

i hope he relocated it the legal way sean

I am sure he will

VanReet Man123 wrote:

We had our cocks out today only been out 30,seconds 2,peregrines in to them we got them all on the loft then another member further up the allotments put there cocks out and ours took of with them they were in them again.Then they went on the pylons waiting for another strike 2,pigeons were coming back to the other loft when they took off and killed them both we got all ours back today but they arent going out for a while now its been a stressing day. Then the Sparrowhawk had a go at 2,cocks

sorry hear about attacks sounds like you did better then other chap ginger in Guernsey 1 killed and Rene getting attacks

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