Will you be ready

[MIL]

Cheers

I’d sooner you get 12 tosses at 16 miles than 6 tosses at 30 mls

[NeilA]

Cheers

I’d sooner you get 12 tosses at 16 miles than 6 tosses at 30 mls

The dates where work allows are worked out possible 18 if the weather is kind so 12 should be sorted be doubles some days

[MIL]

Excellent

Weather always dictates but birds come on so much if they are able to get say 5-6 tosses in on consecutive days

[Trev]

I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get my birds out and flying again soon, I'll soon have babies wanting to fly too so will have to chance it, I shall probably try them again this weekend. It was the 22nd of March last year that I had a bird taken so I know it's a risk but they have to go at some point.

[NeilA]

I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get my birds out and flying again soon, I'll soon have babies wanting to fly too so will have to chance it, I shall probably try them again this weekend. It was the 22nd of March last year that I had a bird taken so I know it's a risk but they have to go at some point.

Could you put a pole up for 30 mins a day Trev I find it’s only on the loft roof trapping the hawks can get them unlike peregrine
I know you like open hole but you might have to do a pole / flag or something for March each year to get around it

[Trev]

To be honest Neil, I very rarely find any bodies when I've had a hit, just have birds come in injured or not turn up at all. She has hit birds in the garden, on the loft, or on the house, she has even been in the loft before. But most the time she has them when they are flying low above the fields behind the loft. As I said, last weekend they'd only been out 5 minutes and just flew straight through the middle of them.

[NeilA]

To be honest Neil, I very rarely find any bodies when I've had a hit, just have birds come in injured or not turn up at all. She has hit birds in the garden, on the loft, or on the house, she has even been in the loft before. But most the time she has them when they are flying low above the fields behind the loft. As I said, last weekend they'd only been out 5 minutes and just flew straight through the middle of them.

Sorry Trev is it a hawk or peregrine? I never had a hawk hit them flying only dropping or when I use to let them out paired where I think they took there eye off the ball
I have mine up in the sky or straight on the board and in I would say 15 seconds from the first one hitting the board to the last one bring in
Unfortunately it means I can’t enjoy birds as I did when I raced before but it can be enjoyable still
I was just thinking it may be a option just for this period for you then when the attacks slow you could follow your open hole system

[Trev]

To be honest Neil, I very rarely find any bodies when I've had a hit, just have birds come in injured or not turn up at all. She has hit birds in the garden, on the loft, or on the house, she has even been in the loft before. But most the time she has them when they are flying low above the fields behind the loft. As I said, last weekend they'd only been out 5 minutes and just flew straight through the middle of them.

Sorry Trev is it a hawk or peregrine? I never had a hawk hit them flying only dropping or when I use to let them out paired where I think they took there eye off the ball
I have mine up in the sky or straight on the board and in I would say 15 seconds from the first one hitting the board to the last one bring in
Unfortunately it means I can’t enjoy birds as I did when I raced before but it can be enjoyable still
I was just thinking it may be a option just for this period for you then when the attacks slow you could follow your open hole system

Definitely a Sparrow hawk Neil, thankfully, I think if it was a peregrine I'd probably pack it in. At least I know with the Sparrow hawk that she will disappear for most of the racing season. She certainly doesn't only hit them on the loft, she almost appears to be trying to drive them down. I tried them out again yesterday, half the birds wouldn't come out, most of those that did went up for a fly and within 10 minutes she was there again some of the birds just hit the loft wherever they could to try and get back in, the ones that were still flying went so that I almost lost sight of them, the hawk just continued to circle around for a bit waiting for them come back down, eventually both she and the birds disappeared !! I haven't gone through them to see who's missing yet but did have some empty perches last night !!

[NeilA]

To be honest Neil, I very rarely find any bodies when I've had a hit, just have birds come in injured or not turn up at all. She has hit birds in the garden, on the loft, or on the house, she has even been in the loft before. But most the time she has them when they are flying low above the fields behind the loft. As I said, last weekend they'd only been out 5 minutes and just flew straight through the middle of them.

Sorry Trev is it a hawk or peregrine? I never had a hawk hit them flying only dropping or when I use to let them out paired where I think they took there eye off the ball
I have mine up in the sky or straight on the board and in I would say 15 seconds from the first one hitting the board to the last one bring in
Unfortunately it means I can’t enjoy birds as I did when I raced before but it can be enjoyable still
I was just thinking it may be a option just for this period for you then when the attacks slow you could follow your open hole system

Definitely a Sparrow hawk Neil, thankfully, I think if it was a peregrine I'd probably pack it in. At least I know with the Sparrow hawk that she will disappear for most of the racing season. She certainly doesn't only hit them on the loft, she almost appears to be trying to drive them down. I tried them out again yesterday, half the birds wouldn't come out, most of those that did went up for a fly and within 10 minutes she was there again some of the birds just hit the loft wherever they could to try and get back in, the ones that were still flying went so that I almost lost sight of them, the hawk just continued to circle around for a bit waiting for them come back down, eventually both she and the birds disappeared !! I haven't gone through them to see who's missing yet but did have some empty perches last night !!

That’s bloody awful Trev
A club mate in Town lost one yesterday to a hawk
This year I have been lucky I did have one fly across the garden head height so I put back letting them out a week but nothing else so far
One year it was awful so much so I left them in for 10 days first time out as I called them down it hit them
I don’t think I raced to May that year as I couldn’t get them out

[Buster121]

To be honest Neil, I very rarely find any bodies when I've had a hit, just have birds come in injured or not turn up at all. She has hit birds in the garden, on the loft, or on the house, she has even been in the loft before. But most the time she has them when they are flying low above the fields behind the loft. As I said, last weekend they'd only been out 5 minutes and just flew straight through the middle of them.

Sorry Trev is it a hawk or peregrine? I never had a hawk hit them flying only dropping or when I use to let them out paired where I think they took there eye off the ball
I have mine up in the sky or straight on the board and in I would say 15 seconds from the first one hitting the board to the last one bring in
Unfortunately it means I can’t enjoy birds as I did when I raced before but it can be enjoyable still
I was just thinking it may be a option just for this period for you then when the attacks slow you could follow your open hole system

Definitely a Sparrow hawk Neil, thankfully, I think if it was a peregrine I'd probably pack it in. At least I know with the Sparrow hawk that she will disappear for most of the racing season. She certainly doesn't only hit them on the loft, she almost appears to be trying to drive them down. I tried them out again yesterday, half the birds wouldn't come out, most of those that did went up for a fly and within 10 minutes she was there again some of the birds just hit the loft wherever they could to try and get back in, the ones that were still flying went so that I almost lost sight of them, the hawk just continued to circle around for a bit waiting for them come back down, eventually both she and the birds disappeared !! I haven't gone through them to see who's missing yet but did have some empty perches last night !!

Hope they get back home Trev