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BOP
By: Sound Rollers Date: October 22, 2011, 9:40 am
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Well, I opened the kit box door this morning for the first time
to allow for acclimation before I put them up. They have been
in and out of the box via a fly pen for more than a week now.
So I'm in the kitchen pouring a cup of coffee, look out the
window just in time to see an accipiter, maybe a goshawk or a
coopers, I'm not sure, kill one of my rollers. Needless to say I
shut the kit box door. I'm waiting for three more to trap in.
Just thought I would share this bit of bad news.
Dennis, if you read this, please call me.
John
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Re: BOP
By: Tony Chavarria Date: October 22, 2011, 10:49 am
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Ouch!
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Re: BOP
By: Sound Rollers Date: October 22, 2011, 7:05 pm
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So this is how domestic my rollers are; the 3 birds birds I
mentioned in my earlier post begged me to get them in to the kit
box, It was like letting in the dog. They were scared as hell.
What am I going to do.
John
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Re: BOP
By: donnie james Date: October 22, 2011, 8:13 pm
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hay john,
sorry to hear about your lost ..................donnie james
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Re: BOP
By: Sound Rollers Date: October 23, 2011, 5:46 pm
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Is this a bad time of the year for flying Rollers?
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Re: BOP
By: oldfart Date: October 23, 2011, 6:07 pm
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Hey John, I am sorry about your bird but yes this is a bad time
for anyone who lives in the hawks migratory corridors or have
local hawks. The locals are teaching their young to hunt and if
they find your kit box will return as long as they get food. The
problem lies in that you have no choice but to fly if your birds
are ever going to improve. I will speak about the little I have
learned about hawks. Never fly early morning or late evening but
try if possible for mid morning or early afternoon. Never leave
your birds while they are on the kit box or landing as these are
the most dangerious times for an attack. Yelling and screaming
will sometimes cause the hawk to break off an attack. I bang two
short pices of 2x4" together to simulate "a loud banging noise"
:) The best defense is a good offense, train your birds not to
sit on the box but to trap as soon as they land. Keep your birds
locked down for a week and the hawk might go away.
Take care
Thom
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Re: BOP
By: Joe Asaro Date: October 23, 2011, 6:41 pm
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[quote author=oldfart link=topic=754.msg9662#msg9662
date=1319411250]
Hey John, I am sorry about your bird but yes this is a bad time
for anyone who lives in the hawks migratory corridors or have
local hawks. The locals are teaching their young to hunt and if
they find your kit box will return as long as they get food. The
problem lies in that you have no choice but to fly if your birds
are ever going to improve. I will speak about the little I have
learned about hawks. Never fly early morning or late evening but
try if possible for mid morning or early afternoon. Never leave
your birds while they are on the kit box or landing as these are
the most dangerious times for an attack. Yelling and screaming
will sometimes cause the hawk to break off an attack. I bang two
short pices of 2x4" together to simulate "a loud banging noise"
:) The best defense is a good offense, train your birds not to
sit on the box but to trap as soon as they land. Keep your birds
locked down for a week and the hawk might go away.
Take care
Thom
[/quote] Also Walmart sporting goods has boating air horn's that
work very well at turning an attacking hawk. >:( That we have to
do thing like this to fly our birds in our back yards. :( Joe
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Re: BOP
By: rookie from ct Date: October 24, 2011, 9:29 am
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Sorry for your loss John ,I stopped flying every day because i
lost 7 birds in 5 weeks so i only will fly on cloudy over cast
day ,seem to be less BOP hunting.I am not sure if its the locals
teaching there young as Thom said or the migrating ones grabbing
a fast meal just know to check the sky's good before opening any
kit box door. Dennis
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Re: BOP
By: Tony Chavarria Date: October 24, 2011, 10:12 am
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How about this, I have a section of the hen pen that I
uncovered. Its been a few weeks like this. I have had a hawk go
after my kit birds 2 times in the last several days and just
about capture one of my birds (came close enough to have pulled
8 tail feathers). About 9am I am looking out my backdoor window
when I see a hawk making straight for a bird sitting on the
inside of the hen pen behind some 1/4 wire. At the last possible
moment, the hawk veers up to avoid hitting the wire. Pigeon had
NO idea she was being swooped on. The hawk flies over the loft,
veers to the north tree line and is outta sight in no time.
Time to put the metal siding back over the wire for the Fall and
Winter seasons (remove the target from site) and cut back on
flying the kits for a week or two. Have a feeling this one will
hang around if I don't take such measures. He needs to forget
there are any birds out there. I do this by completely covering
the pens, locking down the birds and not letting the chickens
run loose for a week or two. I have only been seeing the one, so
hopefully there is not a mate around.
Never ends... :(
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