I agree the falcon will kill at every chance it gets, from black to white.
in 2003, before i flew tipplers, I flew a kit of 100 plus prints. They were
tippler crosses and anything i could get my hands on. By 2005 i had 120
prints bred by me. I flew the kit most days all year round. The tippler
flyers in my area were getting hit by the falcons. I probably lost only 10
after witnessing more attacks then I care to remember,I came to a
conclusion,that the color or it's pattern doesn't make a difference.
However, the wing action does. A bird with a slow wing motion will always
be the first one to get hit. I remember a kit of 9 cocks I flew in
00,varieties of color(solid in yellow,red,black,blue,also prints and badges)
and patterns.
Hi Dave well i certainly lose more young birds you may remember a couple of
years ago i was training a couple of silvers these were the first two to go
followed by any birds with white in them i ended up with just the blues but
i have also had blues taken i dont know if it's the flashes of colour that
attracts the attacking falcon but the coloured ones seem to get it first in
my opinion
As I mentioned before, I have the experience that the BOPs somehow are
afraid of big kits, when I fly my homers in big kits, the hawks sit around
and watch them, when they are back in the loft, sometimes a small group of
3-4 continue flying, that is when the hawk keeps attacking, sometimes she
chase them for long time, if a young bird is among them, will be taken and
sometimes they fly away f
Over the last couple of years i have noticed a slight change in the way the
falcon hunts the birds (colour wise). This year i had a kit of 11 young
birds pretty well settled and on a few hours, coming to the droppers in good
time. The colours of the 11 were, 6 blues, 2 blacks, 2 creamys (i think
people call them silvers elsewhere) and a print. I had to train the kit as
an 11 because of time.
as i said last night i tried but the opinion i got men av tried in the past
and failed but my point is the RPRA are involved now and as every1 knows the
patron ov that society is no other than the QUEEN lets face it in our
country theres no 1 bigger than her majesty the head man david bills is a
very intelligent man who know what avenues to go down who made a lot of
thanks for your advise, I also think we have got nothing to lose and some
ting must be done through the European court. If the result is positive then
it could be tried in other countries too, or even everywhere at the same
time. I am sure Frank is reading these post too and will lead this mission,
I offer him all the help and support I can.
I do not have big loses because I take care of things. I lament about my
loses but those do not stop me from flying...
You did the right thing to contact the German homer fliers club. I will do
the same in CZ sometime soon. Contacting MP is a good idea, but this won't
work in CZ (MP's here are too busy to hang on their mangers :-) The local
press is different.
In Germany, the government breeds thousands of BOP in many different areas
like Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf and many other areas each year and teach
them to hunt pigeons in the breeding camps by feeding them live pigeons and
free them around the cities in order to stop population increase of street
pigeons, but they end up hunting our birds because the street pigeons dont
taste as good as ou
