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Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2022 9:38 pm
by Murray
The race has been changed to Sunday this week to avoid the wet weather on Saturday and has been moved west a bit so the liberation is on this side of the river. This will hopefully prevent them from being clobbered by the falcons again. The hawks abound in the gum tree forests along the Murray river.
I will have to go to Moama and collect the two reported. It's only about 50 miles. That will give me 12 out of the 20. Seeing they were all brand new and inexperienced, and they have been well broken up, it could be worse. Some blokes have hardly seen one.
Yesterday they were tearing around and looking very well, except for one dark chequer pied bloke, who is reluctant to fly much. I reckon he's had a narrow escape and he's pretty nervous. I will give him another week, I think. See how he comes along.
Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:06 am
by Buster121
Hope he recovers mate, always hard after an attack I have one now still wont come out of loft if I put him out he just runs back in and that was a few years ago when he got hit
Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 7:49 am
by Andy
Hope they all recover soon.
I have a old hen, 8 years old, from Rich. She was one of the last ones he raced before locking his lofts up and just breeding for others. He stopped letting in out as he is up in the Welsh mountains and every time he let them out they were ambushed. She is flying out here and quite happy. I’ve had her for 5 years now. But if a hawk appears mine will take off and chase after it, she just dives back into the loft even now.
Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 9:13 am
by Murray
Well, they all got a day off today. It is raining. I mean, raining.
It is coming in from the north, or north east, and has driven under the door of the loft and got in around the sputnik and the windows. The floor is wet, which seldom happens. Usually it's just from my wet shoes when it's raining. This time the rain is getting in.
Terrible weather.
Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:33 am
by Murray
Drove a few miles today.
Took a quick trip to Echuca /Moama on the Murray river to collect a couple of my pigeons which had dived for cover when the falcons attacked the race last weekend.
About a 200 kilometre round trip, and the countryside is looking fantastic
Hundreds and hundreds of acres of Canola crops, yellow as the sun, and as tall as a man. Wheat, barley and oat crops, in fields too big to see the other side of, and too thick to walk through.
We have lived in this bit of the Land Down Under for nearly 20 years, and we have never seen the whole bottom quarter of Australia look like this, for three years in a row.
Massive crops. Crops which are overwhelming the infrastucture to transport it.
Next time anyone tells you there is a global food shortage, you can with confidence tell them it its a lie. it's part of the climate change agenda, and they make that up as they go.
Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:07 am
by Buster121
Bet that was a site to behold Murray, love the open countryside myself nothing better as far as I'm concerned, hope the birds settle back well mate
Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:34 am
by Murray
After I got back there were a few patches of rain coming through, but the sky brightened during the afternoon. Because they did not get out yesterday, I took a couple of hampers full out to the usual short toss point. They took off and at one point I could see them silhouetted against the dark rain clouds, spread out over 50 yards and going like the clappers! Then they played and flew for another hour or so.
Tomorrow they can rest before i pick a team to go for Sunday.
Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:36 pm
by Andy
Murray wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:33 am
Drove a few miles today.
Took a quick trip to Echuca /Moama on the Murray river to collect a couple of my pigeons which had dived for cover when the falcons attacked the race last weekend.
About a 200 kilometre round trip, and the countryside is looking fantastic
Hundreds and hundreds of acres of Canola crops, yellow as the sun, and as tall as a man. Wheat, barley and oat crops, in fields too big to see the other side of, and too thick to walk through.
We have lived in this bit of the Land Down Under for nearly 20 years, and we have never seen the whole bottom quarter of Australia look like this, for three years in a row.
Massive crops. Crops which are overwhelming the infrastucture to transport it.
Next time anyone tells you there is a global food shortage, you can with confidence tell them it its a lie. it's part of the climate change agenda, and they make that up as they go.
All sounds good Murray. When do you harvest over there? Sounds early in your year for the corn to be so far on. We wouldn’t harvest corn here until July/August in a normal year. That would be January/February over there.
Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:36 pm
by Andy
Murray wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 11:34 am
After I got back there were a few patches of rain coming through, but the sky brightened during the afternoon. Because they did not get out yesterday, I took a couple of hampers full out to the usual short toss point. They took off and at one point I could see them silhouetted against the dark rain clouds, spread out over 50 yards and going like the clappers! Then they played and flew for another hour or so.
Tomorrow they can rest before i pick a team to go for Sunday.
Good luck with them this weekend Murray.
Re: Life in Bendigo.
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:49 pm
by Murray
Andy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:36 pm
Murray wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:33 am
Drove a few miles today.
Took a quick trip to Echuca /Moama on the Murray river to collect a couple of my pigeons which had dived for cover when the falcons attacked the race last weekend.
About a 200 kilometre round trip, and the countryside is looking fantastic
Hundreds and hundreds of acres of Canola crops, yellow as the sun, and as tall as a man. Wheat, barley and oat crops, in fields too big to see the other side of, and too thick to walk through.
We have lived in this bit of the Land Down Under for nearly 20 years, and we have never seen the whole bottom quarter of Australia look like this, for three years in a row.
Massive crops. Crops which are overwhelming the infrastucture to transport it.
Next time anyone tells you there is a global food shortage, you can with confidence tell them it its a lie. it's part of the climate change agenda, and they make that up as they go.
All sounds good Murray. When do you harvest over there? Sounds early in your year for the corn to be so far on. We wouldn’t harvest corn here until July/August in a normal year. That would be January/February over there.
Quite right Andy.
These are winter sown crops, and harvest is months away. But the season has been so good the crops are massive. It's a beautiful sight, yellow canola going off into the distance on one side of the road, and wheat, knee high and vivid green, as far as you can see on the other.
The sheep have spring lambs, and they are fat and white.
Having seen years of drought and low rainfall, to see this part of the country so healthy and productive is a joy.