ANYBODY GOT ANY ASPIRIN ?

I had a hawk strike this morning, it knocked a bird onto the ground and I chased the hawk off, about half an hour later my four birds went up again as it came back.
It hit my concrete painted pigeon that I had put on the top of the loft, and it sat there for a few seconds as if it was dazed, I suppose now it must have a sore head.
If anybody has any dry underpants, can they send them to me as I wet mine with laughing.

shud of made sure it had a proper head ache Ginge know i would of mate sill i got a long pipe with a bit of lead if need be

sorry to hear of the attack ginger, shame you couldnt have finished it off while it was stunned......good idea tho re the concrete painted pigeon, would be nice if you could post a picture of it them maybe some of the members could make one too....

I have Rene if he can take one to put it on the forum

yes would be excellent if rene could, thanks ginger...........(thanks rene too.....lol)

excellent

think anything which helps protect our birds whilst exercising is worth a try, every day i have my ybs out and constantly watching for hawks...........hope i dont get an attack this year like i did last year as at the moment the ybs are nice and relaxed and settled.

You know thats a bloody good idea, maybe we should all get concrete pigeons on the loft then when they knock them selves silly we can get the bas xxrds

it is a good idea isnt it martyn, ive never heard of this before but obviously it works.........im interested in seeing what its like and maybe finding out off ginger how he made it...

Yes that is a good idear about the concrete pigeons, they will have to think twice

hopefully they never think again

cant say that these are beautiful birds its only nature

what a pity

what do you mean ray

I didnt make the pigeon I won it in raffel and the bitter half painted it we had it on
a pillar and it was knocked off so I super glud it and stock on the loft.

seems to work well tho` ginger, bet the hawk got the shock of its life............

Ginger have you seen the hawk again

No Don not in last few days, but I have been on the look out.

when i raced 20 years ago ginger it never entered my head to be on the look out for hawks when exercisingg...........totally different now im afraid.

Your right there David

i was away fishing today and two very large birds of prey were circling above me i think they were buzzards.

often see hawks near me hovering high up in the sky, but its a pain always having to watch out for them all the time...........altho i seem to have sorted the cat problem out i had last year.

David I went training today about 30 mile toss, Im not joking but in that journey I saw 2 sparowhawks , a red kite, at least 25 buzzards maybe more, and 2 perigrines, it was such a nice day after all this rain I think everything was flying about. thats what wales is like these days...

coping with a cat problem is bad enough martyn, but at least something can be done about them to an extent.......

but the hawk/bop is another matter, we are virtually powerless to protect our birds...... it sickens you off sometimes...................

I can assure you we are sorting some out, its the ones around the loft we are just about coping with, If any bird has a night out its dead by morning just recently I let a yearling out about 5 cause some youngsters were on a farm roof and I wanted them to fly back to the loft, it was the first time they had been out. Thing is the youngsters came in and were ok, the yearling was on the roof, I went to feed the youngsters and lock up when I got back thought the yearlin had gone in, but never saw it again.
Its the perigrines when we train that we are powerless to stop, no sooner you let them out percy has smashed them, last year I was releasing my youngsters 4 at a time and staggered the libs up the road for 12 miles, otherwise flocks get smashed, when they are in small groups some pass unnoitced, imagine how long it takes me with 60 birds, and I take another lads birds as well thats 120 to liberate 4 at a time.