Hifly11
74 posts
Nov 11, 2009
1:33 PM
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Red tail hawk ate one of my rollers and the next morning he was back sitting on top of the kit box just waiting for them to come out. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it.
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Oldfart
GOLD MEMBER
1504 posts
Nov 11, 2009
3:19 PM
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I would, darn Cooper used my fence for a perch! :( While choosing supper from my kit box.
Thom
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Hifly11
75 posts
Nov 13, 2009
6:53 AM
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red tail came back today, he flew at the fly pen then landed on the coop. My birds are so scard they didn't eat at all.What must I do? put a big tarp over my coop? He is comming back every day and will not go away.I live in the city and I have had coons (3) here one ate a bird thru the wire at nite. I have cats sit under my kit box. I have possim come by at nite. Cooper hawks have killed many this year. Sharp shin hawks around all summer and now it is that pair of red tails hanging around.Having pigeons has become a pain for me. Iam about to give up. You can't fly rollers in this enviroment.
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PR_rollers
GOLD MEMBER
3472 posts
Nov 13, 2009
7:05 AM
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I hear you Hifly, wave a flag at it nobody can't tell you not to wave a flag..or get one of those blow horn they sell in walmart blow it until they go somewhere else..as for the coons put a draw under the screen bottom or another wire around the perimeter of the kitbox to keep cats and anything else out..I know what you mean it makes you want to quit.see I can't even if I wanted to because this is my therapy prescribe by me..I hope everthing turns out for you..peace..
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Ralph.
Pigeons are not our whole life, but they damn sure make our lives whole!" ~
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rookie from ct
GOLD MEMBER
166 posts
Nov 13, 2009
7:43 AM
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Hifly DO NOT show the BOP dinner cover your fly pen yes with a tarp,plywood,even leaves will work if they see them they have no reason to leave.I know it's hard to fly this time of year but I have to fly at least twice a week to keep my kit box clean I had a big owl sitting on my kit box the other night. Dennis
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fhtfire
2200 posts
Nov 13, 2009
8:06 AM
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Hifly,
That is exactly what you do...you have to cover up everything...but why make it temporary....add some wood to you loft so that you can close it up....if the BOP can see your birds they will stop and perch until they get so hungry that they leave and hunt..but they will come back...for awhile and they will give up....now if they have eaten a meal...then it will take time..because now they know that something will come out...
during the winter at my house...it was like pearl harbor I would get hit every other fly...not always getting a bird but just chasing them...as soon as I started closing up my loft so that there was not a bird in site.....well....I get hit every now and then....my first hit was a couple weeks ago and it had been 5 months since an attack...I did get hit by a falcon.....but it was just passing through...anyway...out of sight out of mind.
rock and ROLL
paul
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steve49
330 posts
Nov 13, 2009
2:11 PM
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I think Paul has hit it on the head! you've got to keep the birds invisible from the eyes of the predators. a mammal is different, as they have a sense of smell, but only turkey vultures can smell well enough to find something. i'm thinking about how my new breeding loft needs to incorporate Paul's suggestion about not having the birds visible. i think i'm going to use plastic panels that allow light in, but the bop's cannot see inside.
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Steve in Blue Point, NY
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Hifly11
76 posts
Nov 14, 2009
5:43 AM
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Hay Guys thanks for all the info and the encouragement.Missery loves company, and we love our birds.
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