losing birds.

how many of you think that birds of prey are taking racers?now their seems to be lots more of these bird in our towns and cities as their is no places for them in the countryside.i see sparrowhawks almost daily at my place.at this time of year its only cocks and they are too small to prey on pigeons but i hav lost birds from my roof with hen birds.thankfully i dont have any cliffs near me so no peregrains but racers are at more risk than mines.

a lot of readups about on this subject, a lot getting hit daily with them, some havent had birds out since last race, 1st day out bop hits them

It's getting worse every year, I've been hit every year for 7 years apart from last year, It's getting beyond a joke now, when you say the cocks wont hit the pigeons, I dont agree even they are getting braver, they may not be able to take the bird away as it's to heavy, but they will hit them. JMO

Fred

you should try living in west wales..unbelievable we have the densest population anywhere and thats fact, I have 3 breeding pairs 2 miles from my loft. I was thinking about it the other day our county of pembrokeshire has about 10/ 15 pairs or perigrines in it so if they take 2 prey items a day thats 40 a day minimum...then its 280 a week, and 1120 a month thats a lot of birdies and thats only perigrines we have sparrow hawks and goshawks doing much damage also.

I see a perigrine , goshawk or sparrow hawk every day and thats twice a day most days.

this subject comes up all the time.whats the largest amount of birds lost in one single race?how many birds did you enter and how many returned?

2 pr peregrines 2 mile from us nesting but havent seen them go for pigeons in compound yet, just hawks hitting us for now, it was a cock hawk that got my y/b but it got away

steve, have you heard about the fish tank with a pigeon in it...........?

DAVID wrote:

steve, have you heard about the fish tank with a pigeon in it...........?

yes heard of this david,only thing is it would probably scare the decoy bird to death.

yes heard of it David, got a spare 1 aswell

i lost two young uns yesterday hope the hawk did ,nt get any of them.they might be back this morning

hope you get them back ray

me too ray, hope they come back..........(its not the ugly ones is it.....?)

yes i lost ob to hawk today from a toss fingers crossed never seen hawk around loft for few days now ....

got three missing today

y/bs or training ian

youngbirds steve sure they will turn up tomorrow

got one back,lost a red one,a bit gutted as it was a loverly bird as well, but no brains i soppose

still time to come back might be enjoying flying

peel bros wrote:

got one back,lost a red one,a bit gutted as it was a loverly bird as well, but no brains i soppose

how old is it ray ? is it recently parted or been flying out for a while......?

i had a racer that hung around my area for 3 days then went home i presume.

maybe a rest and a drink is sometimes all they need, then they are on there way........?

not very old david