Hawk in Loft

Dec 29 10am pool blood outside loft no feathers*
" 10.30am saw a hawk fly away in gap between lofts*
" 11.55am heard loud sounds female hawk in loft flew outsputnick
before could catch* 1st time ever my loft***

hi richard, never heard of them actually getting in the loft.........must have been a horrible thing to happen to you, i suppose it would have been such a shock you froze and couldnt do anything about it.

did it kill any birds ?

My friend had a hawk in his loft one afternoon it killed the champion bird from our club. He did away with that hawk, the next morning another was in the loft and killed an old bird. Seems like they kill one bird and then try to get out. He had 3 total in the loft this past year. I had 2 different ones on my landing board. One got lead poisoned as he flew off and the other found his way into a trap and got lead poisoned. 5 down, thousands more to go.

top man chad, fight the fight..............

David wrote:

hi richard, never heard of them actually getting in the loft.........must have been a horrible thing to happen to you, i suppose it would have been such a shock you froze and couldnt do anything about it.

did it kill any birds ?

[i]not as far I know but there was a pool blood outide loft<<<<<
this is the 1st time had attacks in the months sept to dec ,had doublefigs killed
plus saved a lot as hawks attack with me only 2/3 yrds away
dec 20 head ripped off 1 about mile away approx 24 thdec 1 killed flying with rest flock plus others birds missing<<<

seems they are very active in guernsey richard, its the same here in some parts of the country so ive read..........

i was waiting for my birds from a race an the hawk dived into my loft behind a pigeon but it shot out the shed before i could shut the door hawk numbers are definately on the up

sorry to hear of your troubles richard but if things are bad why dont you keep the birds in for the winter months as it seems a few hawks have located your loft and are going to be around for a while so why keep feeding them .........you could always leave a nice doctored pigeon carcass for mr hawks return

oldstrain wrote:

sorry to hear of your troubles richard but if things are bad why dont you keep the birds in for the winter months as it seems a few hawks have located your loft and are going to be around for a while so why keep feeding them .........you could always leave a nice doctored pigeon carcass for mr hawks return

Thanks Old STrain but the hawks are attacking from
sept to may now,have tried keeping in does not work as when you let than outget killed,plus all our training plus racing is done agross sea due to birds never being let out at times get 100 % losses which is far worse than what hawk do . still thanks from Richard

Sorry to hear of your problem Richard hope things can get sorted for you soon rather than later mate