Hi all, i am happy we are waking up and finally deciding to take some
action. This is the first positive move.
Frank you are right about the public opinion about pigeons, but that is in
my view the fault of the fanciers who have always done this sport without
any publicity. most of the people haven't even heard about this sport.
I think every piece of document is important, anyone who has a document
about any type of damage the BOPs are doing please attach it to your mail
and I hope we can soon decide on someone taking responsibility to put them
together for the next step. Please report any article or private document to
FT with reference: "Document BOP action" so we could easily sort them out
and put them together. Let us start right now.
I actually think that employing lawyers to fight the falcon menace will be
futile, and as has already been mentioned lining the pockets of legal
representation on a no win situation will be almost as bad as loosing birds
to the falcon, in my opinion.
But I think the suggestion that fanciers could have birds pre-baited with
noxious substances and used as a part of a decoy system is a good one. I
accept some might fly little daylight hours in training and prefer longer
dark training so as to minimise the daylight attacks, but come competition
Hi Frank a lot of what we are seeing here on FT concerning the perigrine
problem was put to the NTU by Mick Tift in proposals at the AGMs only a very
few people voted for these proposals not one of the council thought it was a
good idea or spoke up for it the proposals were rejected by a massive
majority with the general concensus being if you have a problem sort it out
for yourselves i secon
you have understood the point about BOPs, even though you don't have big
losses yourself.
I have become a member of the Racing Pigeon Club in Germany to be able to
gather information and encourage them to joint this move. At the mean time I
was told that they have around 50.000 members in Germany, and all together
with other types of Pigeons.
I know we cannot, and I certainly do not, want to eradicate the BOPs.
However, it would be nice to keep their numbers in balance with the rest of
the nature and in places where they belong. My losses to hawk are acceptable
(so far no more than 10 birds a year) but when I read about other guys
losses, or about the decrease in the song bird numbers, I just cannot sit
still...
1 of the first things is 2 get twitchers wound up about it cos the hawks are
doing more damage 2 the small birds a remember reading a article in 1 of the
local rags bout some bird appeared on our shores what doesnt normally appear
and there was hundreds of twitchers from everyware came 2 av a look n as
they wer all doing there bit with the cameras in swooped a sparrowhawk n ad
it for its ten
