donnie james
1127 posts
Aug 10, 2010
6:11 PM
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hay site ,
yesterday i hard a bop in the front tree of my house went i went out feed the breeders and water the breeders and the flying team and a few hours later i seen him down the street while i had my scooter out and their was their was 2 starly's chasing him and i been thinking to lock up my fliers for a while and i don't see any bop late fall so i'm thinking theirs the bops come in early this year but i could be wrong to think that way...........and he was about 10 feet higher then a telephone pole and he had about a 3 feet wing span
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Donny James
"Fly The Best And Cull The Rest"
"Saying One Thing;Doing Its Another"
"Keep Your Head Planted In The Sky And Wings Spanned Wide"
1996 Piedmont Roller Club Lifetime Achievement Recipient
Portsmouth Roller Club Participation Award System Recipient 1994 '96 '97 And 2000
2001 Limestone,Ohio Sportsman's Club Lifetime Member Recipient
2002Portsmouth Roller Club Certified Judge
2004Portsmouth Roller Club Lifetime Member Recipient
"Miss Portsmouth"NBRC/90/J311 Rusty Dun Check Self Hen First Bird To Get Certified In Portsmouth Roller Club History With A Score Of 53 Judge By Joe Roe The 1993 World Cup Winner And John Bender The 1994 World Cup Winner
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Raul Carreiro
86 posts
Aug 10, 2010
6:37 PM
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Hi Donnie my friend, sorry to hear you may have to lock your birds down! Those darn BOPs are sure a menace from what I have been reading from lots of persons on the site! I am blessed to not have that Bop problem here In Bermuda. Keep your chin up buddy!
Raul.
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Joe Valdivia
29 posts
Aug 10, 2010
11:20 PM
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That's not cool, maybe he was just snooping around and not targeting your birds. 3 days ago, when i went out to feed up my birds, there was a coopers hawk sitting on my lofts sundeck. it was beautiful yet sickening at the same time
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pat66
513 posts
Aug 11, 2010
4:09 AM
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Donnie, I had to lock down 2 weeks ago, coopers are eating anything that moves, they usually move in around October ,but came back early this year.
Seriously considering going to show birds,impossible to fly anymore!
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ECRA
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JDA
GOLD MEMBER
937 posts
Aug 11, 2010
7:01 AM
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Like I have said on other posts, my birds have been shutdown since middle of June.Cooper nest down the street and the young have left the nest and I see one or two about everyday.)-:.JDA
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Scott
3123 posts
Aug 11, 2010
7:17 AM
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Donny.. I think that it depends on what it is .. was it a RedTail ? man if locked down just because I "saw" a hawk I would never fly.. I have at least one redtail above my loft at all times with no problem.
If it got to a point where I had to lock down like some... or breed hundreds just to let them be slaughtered .. I would be searching for another breed.
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Scott Campbell
" God Bless "
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James Herring
38 posts
Aug 11, 2010
9:29 AM
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Hey guys, is there not a way to unite all us Roller flyers here in the states, and take a petition of some sort to the powers that be, and let them know that the Hawk and Falcon populations are becoming over populated to the point that our native wild birds are in danger of being wiped out? And there needs to be some type of population management system put into effect for the Raptors. Its to the point now that we can hardly fly our birds without loseing some everytime we fly. These are not common pigeons, some people have paid hard earned money to purchase stock birds with pedigrees.There must be something we can at least try.
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F-5 Roller lofts.
Last Edited by on Aug 11, 2010 9:30 AM
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donnie james
1129 posts
Aug 11, 2010
12:47 PM
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hay guys,
thanks for the advice i'm going to lock them down for a while and if i remember right it had a black tail and again thanks for the advice
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Donny James
"Fly The Best And Cull The Rest"
"Saying One Thing;Doing Its Another"
"Keep Your Head Planted In The Sky And Wings Spanned Wide"
1996 Piedmont Roller Club Lifetime Achievement Recipient
Portsmouth Roller Club Participation Award System Recipient 1994 '96 '97 And 2000
2001 Limestone,Ohio Sportsman's Club Lifetime Member Recipient
2002Portsmouth Roller Club Certified Judge
2004Portsmouth Roller Club Lifetime Member Recipient
"Miss Portsmouth"NBRC/90/J311 Rusty Dun Check Self Hen First Bird To Get Certified In Portsmouth Roller Club History With A Score Of 53 Judge By Joe Roe The 1993 World Cup Winner And John Bender The 1994 World Cup Winner
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rookie from ct
GOLD MEMBER
329 posts
Aug 11, 2010
3:20 PM
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I had a Peregrine Falcon chase my 3rd round hatch for a few minuets tonight and luckily for them and me he went home hungry or he wasn't hungry at all and was just playing with them, but whatever that was the only the second time seeing a Peregrine in my neck of the woods. Dennis
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James Herring
39 posts
Aug 11, 2010
5:43 PM
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Hi Dennis,
Soon my friend they will be every where! I live in the heart of downtown, and these things come in like a fighter squadron.
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F-5 Roller lofts.
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maxspin
389 posts
Aug 13, 2010
7:59 AM
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Donnie,
Is this BOP chasing your birds? Remember that young birds need to be flown. Constant lock down will retard their development. I fly under constant peregrine falcon pressure. I have tried many different things in order to stay in roller pigeons. In 2008 I locked down every time I had a peregrine attack hoping that they would find a primary source of food someplace else. End result was that I got very little fly time on my young birds. I got zero A-team level rollers that year. They just did not develop.
Not all BOP have birds as their primary prey. Buteos (Red Tail, Red-shouldered, Broad-winged) are primarily rodent/reptile eaters. They are the hawks that we see all of the time sitting along side of the roads. They can be deadly if your birds are spending a lot of time sitting in the trees around your house (management issue), but for the most part are not great at taking birds out of the air.
The point of locking down your birds is to break the cycle of them feeding on your birds. You do not want them to set up camp and look to you as their primary food source. Just because you saw a BOP seems a little quick on the trigger to me.
Keith Maxwell
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katyroller
743 posts
Aug 13, 2010
10:37 AM
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Fortunately, the BOP's aren't thick in my area this time of year and those that are seem to have found another food source. The couple of half hearted chases have actually been good training for the young bird kits. Hopefully it will prove beneficial come Fall. I have a Caracara(Mexican eagle) that comes by every evening and looks at the kit but nothing more. This bird helped train the young birds to fly a little higher.
Tracey
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