the pigeon the hawk couldnt take on

hi all i went around to Ginge toady and too a couple of pics of the concrete pigeon on top of his loft that a hawk flew strait into and got a bit of a head ache ( lol ) wen i went around to gingers i was told that it was his good lady that used to paint them and that quite a few local fanciers had bought them in the past they do look realistic Ginge has got some crackin birds at his loft and he has won the channel islands section from as far as palamos and other places such as Bordeaux i will try and attempt a loft report on Ginge and his birds in the near future the last pics are of a young bird that Ginge kindly gave to my two daughters to race i think he said it was from his Jann Aarden family and no dout they will beat me with it lol

think i will get one of them ,mint

wow thats a nice lookin blue, concrete or not, I will have to et one

thats spot on rene, would like to find one of those...........
if anyone can make these ill bet they will do a good trade in selling them.




look forward to gingers write up rene..........

i think Ginge said it was brought at a garden center over here he's good lady painted it

mmmm, could be worth taking a trip to our local garden centres then maybe....... its a pain having to watch all the time my ybs are out exercising.

even if a hawk smacks into it and breaks its leg would be anough to kill it as it would die of starvation due to not being able to hunt any thing is worth a go i think

you are right rene, i agree.........see how they like being hurt and dying, no mercy shown for our birds so none shown for the hawks, thats what i say..........

totaly agree with you mate

this is only nature tho they have to survive and feed there young just like everything

rene, would you say the hawk/bop problem we have in uk is worse than fanciers in gurnsey have, or are the attacks fanciers there have less frequent.........do you get a lot of hawks there ?

there are quite a few stikes now compared to a couple of years ago Ginge and many of the fanciers seems to get hit quite a lot over here i think im one of the lucky 1s realy i live next to the resivour and ive only had the one strike think the hawks and bops prefer the ducklings as they are easy prey also i have marsh harriers and honey buzzerds that fly around home so keep them at bay i think
A few years ago i read somewhere that the big grunter pigeons were use to fly with the racers on excersie and that the hawks and bops thought it was another bop or hawk and wouldnt go near but how true this is i dont know

could well be true rene, i dont put anything past fanciers who are wanting to protect their birds......seems to be getting more frequent every year by the amount of attacks ive read about lately.......

I have seen the hen perigrine every day this week, she has passed my loft heading to the estuary every day around the same time, leaving the poor cock to sit the eggs, cause hes a bit pethitic at hunting compared to her. Everyone within a 7 mile radius of me is getting smashed now daily, not a sparrow hawk to be seen though they are back in the woods.

hi martyn, every time my ybs are out im watching the sky for them.......to be honest i have only seem one about three weeks ago, so im duing well compared to last year..........(touch wood...)

Well its something us welsh lads have to put up with sadly, I can tell you a story and its true, last week when it was windy I was talking to a mate in the garden when I heared a skylark singing, when I looked up I saw the skylark singing high up and it was being chaised by a sparrow hawk, I watched it trying to get away for as long as I could see it then lost sight. Not sure if it survived but thats 1 for the rspb, skylarks that are getting rare coming here to breed and geting eaten by raptors, thats why everythin is becoming rare not global warming or farming.