Windjammer Loft
896 posts
Aug 24, 2009
7:00 AM
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Well Sunday morning the 24th,I went outside and opened all the doors so the birds could get into their flight cages and get the morning sun. I came back into the house and was making my coffee. All of a sudden I "heard" aloud thump and my birds were flying franticlly in their flight cages. I ran outside and what did I "see"!!!! Mr.Cooper was clinging to the side of one of the flight cages,cherping like "hell". All my birds dissapared inside the loft. I started yelling,screeming and clapping my hands. I think Mr.Cooper was as startled,as I was... He took off and made several circles above my loft,then headed back towards the wood. I waited for afew hours. Later on I was able to give all my kits fly time "SAFELY".... Guess it's about that time again...lol
Fly High and Roll On
Paul
Last Edited by on Aug 25, 2009 6:35 AM
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PR_rollers
GOLD MEMBER
3310 posts
Aug 24, 2009
7:55 AM
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Hey Paul you got your first warning there.never leave your kids unattended..lol...
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Ralph.
Life comes down to the choices you make, and then living with the results.
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Windjammer Loft
897 posts
Aug 24, 2009
8:21 AM
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Ralph....I "never" leave them out to "fly" without me their watching them. This is when I jot down notes about how they are flying that day. It's my daily ritual,to go out in the morning and open the doors to their flight cages,then come back and make my coffe. Then I fly them...
Fly High and Roll On
Paul
Last Edited by on Aug 24, 2009 8:23 AM
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bman
712 posts
Aug 24, 2009
8:25 AM
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Hey Paul, over the last three weeks I have had brushes with two falcons,three coopers, one sharpie and a young redtail that thinks he is a falcon!
No losses,still dodging the bullet.
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Ron
Borderline lofts
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Windjammer Loft
899 posts
Aug 24, 2009
8:32 AM
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Hey Ron....I was kinda hoping that I could get afew more weeks out of the "friendly" skys.....lol. My resident Red Tail doesn't seen to bother my birds like ol'Mr.& Mrs.Cooper does... Guess I gotta watch the skys alittel beter now.
Fly High and Roll On
Paul
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cv rollers
452 posts
Aug 24, 2009
9:48 AM
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I got my first warning friday he hit the roof and missed pulled in some key birds and now flying at different times and just a few days..
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Rick Flores
coachellavalleyrollers.net
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bman
713 posts
Aug 24, 2009
10:18 AM
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Paul, I have a nest of redtails every year. And every August the young ones practice diving on my kits. They never catch any but the birds get a warm up for what's coming!----------
Ron
Borderline lofts
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Oldfart
GOLD MEMBER
1378 posts
Aug 24, 2009
10:41 AM
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Hey Paul, I'm glad they missed! It's tough this year.
Thom
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BA Rollers
279 posts
Aug 24, 2009
11:41 AM
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Why do people say not to leave your kits alone? Why do they say to never stop watching them when they are outside of the box? Is there something a person thinks they can do by being there to witness an attack? If you are in the house or standing under them, you can't do jack shit about it. You might be able to yell or create a distraction of some kind for a in-yard accipiter encounter, but not most of them away from the yard. And you can't do nothing to scare away an aerial attacker like a falcon. All you can do is watch. Of course then come onto the internet and complain about it...lol. At which point someone says, "a lot of good being there to watch it happen helped".
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bman
714 posts
Aug 24, 2009
12:10 PM
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Brian,that's so you no what patch of empty sky to stare at waiting for the kit to return.
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Ron
Borderline lofts
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donnie james
660 posts
Aug 24, 2009
2:42 PM
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hay paul you have to watch every day now for the bop's so for i been very lucky knock on wood the weather is going to change here in the next month or so and i have to start looking for the bop's myself and start flying every few days or every other day or something like that to throw the bop's off ................donny james
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lew3015
34 posts
Aug 24, 2009
3:06 PM
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BA Rollers you know it's tough to be a bug, but you are so right.
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Lew
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Windjammer Loft
903 posts
Aug 25, 2009
7:10 AM
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Hey donnie........ya...it is that time of the year already.... But this year has been fun so far..
Fly High and Roll On
Paul
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Joe Valdivia
7 posts
Aug 25, 2009
6:25 PM
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My favorite thing (not really) is when the local cooper will fly right past a huge flock of wild pigeons to go after one of my 11 birds i am currently flying.
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RodSD
336 posts
Aug 25, 2009
7:35 PM
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You are lucky. A hawk got my white(grizzled ash red) roller last week. I was trying to resettle it and released it for the first time. It took off and this hawk just grab it mid-air and took it somewhere else. I was there present, but once these BOP gets them and drag them somewhere else I really can't do anything about it. I must admit though that I have saved many of my birds from getting killed when I was able to distract the hawks by running towards them yelling.
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Hifly11
70 posts
Aug 26, 2009
5:29 PM
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It looks like it is that time of the year, sun. the 24th a cooper got my Best ruby roller.What can I say, most of you know how I feel!
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