Now We Have FALCONS 

I have a plan.. which does not involve hurting any birds! stay tuned!

Idea for a hawk trap: Fake pigeon on a box Hawk dive bomb attacks fake pigeon and both ends up in the box The box being build in such a way, that a bird can't escape it.

Birds: Need to get out for a fly Falcon: helo

Hey Maney, I usually clap and it scares predators away. But I clap every time I go to my pigeons so they get used to clapping so they won't get scared of it, but the hawks will. I found it really effective! But if that doesn't work........then try the same method, but with an air horn! My parents won't let me get an air horn, but it really works! Your birds may get scared at first, but they know where their home is and they'll come back, and if you try this method, then use an air horn near your birds when they aren't flying to get them used to the big noise. If you do it, the predators will be scared and fly away while keeping your birds safe!

Hi kurt a couple of cd disc's in the trees beside you it has something to do with the reflection of the sun

Best way to get rid of Hawk is shoot some Fireworks 🧨 in the air That way he will not return he will get scared Try this definitely works

Kurt , the old guys that raced pigeons near me when I was growing up , had "Eyespot wing-transfers" on some of the birds , blue bars mainly , this was done to prevent birds of prey from attacking the pigeons . I'm not sure how effective it was , but there's plenty of evidence in nature that can support the use of "large eyes" as a deterrent from predators, such as butterflies , some fish , also other birds . I'll try to find out more for you .

Hi from Morocco, i think you can try to use "Greifvogel Abwehrspray" The spray can be used directly on the pigeon or the poultry. Thanks to the supplied template, you can simply spray the markings on, preferably on the wings or on the tail. The colour, unknown in the wild, can have a deterrent and irritating effect on birds of prey and prevent further losses.

Please Set Up an Owl Decoy or Scarecrow. Owl decoys and scarecrows will scare hawks away and keep them out of your backyard. ... The hawk will want to stay away from anything it perceives to be a predator, such as an owl, so good luck ...Keep them safe!!

That falcon came out of nowhere,it looks like a young one and I'm pretty surprised its that low

Hi mate. Long story short. We also live on a farm/smallholding,and yes seems you a d your pigeons are closer to nature and falcons🙈 Last year they caught so many of my birds i almost stopped flying,but the birds git fit and cleaver,and eventually they falcons left because they couldn't get them any more. This year,first time i got the young birds out,they where back,but this time round the birds knew what it was and what to do,and 3 months later they haven't caught 1. I see falcons now as "trainers". 😂 Keep the faith i know its hard,but it will get better soon as your birds get fitter. Good luck.

Those hawks may have a nest nearby with how quick they are on the birds.

Do have a handy pole or a long stick with a dark colored cloth tied to one end. One will help fear the diving hawk/falcon/kite approaching the roof when birds chilling also will help train the young pigeons flying in the direction you wave the pole clockwise or anti clockwise. You will have more fun. Rather than stress of predators each day. You will loose a few old / unhealthy or young ones. But keep breeding in your new home....

i am surprized that the falcon attacks so low , in Europe the peregrine gets its pray very high, comes in amazing stoops but furtunatelly your homing pigeons dont get very high , that,s why falcon is flying arround, it try to make the pigeons go high. as long as they stay low they are safe but you,ll have much bigger problems with the peregrine when pakistani pigeons will be released cause unlike homing they go very high and up there it is peregrine,s kingdom.

Hi Maney, I'm in Denver in the US, I have Falcons & Hawks in my area. Here they are protected by a migratory bird act. I have a Father, Mother, & Now a Baby, Coopers Hawks- The Baby is so fast I can't believe it- I haven't found a way around them other then Flying in the early mornings but who knows how long that will work for! I've tried shiny CDs, Pie Plates from trees, Kids like Fireworks all the time, One time the father which is 20" tall was on my fence & I tried to hit him with a rake I was holding, he just flew back a couple feet. Don't seem like their scared of anything. Best Wishes Maney, Love your Videos my friend!

I had at what I thought at the time was a elderly gentleman In Kansas back in the 60's tell me what his thoughts on how to take care of pigeons. He told me that a pigeon only needs to fill his crop up twice a day to sustain good health. Now when they had babies they would have to eat more. He told me to put out enough food that all of the pigeons crops would be full in ten minutes. Every morning he would go out and feed the birds first thing & give them fresh water. He'd also make sure they had plenty of grit for their digestion. After his birds were fed, he then would go ahead and release them. They would take off in a large flock of over a hundred birds. He said at this point their crops were full & they didn't have to worry about anything but flying. He'd leave the entrance hole open all day long so the birds would could come & go as they pleased. He said on average he would loose two or year pigeons for the entire year from hawks & it was always young birds that weren't experienced flyers yet. Good luck to You.

try getting a family of peewees, i had a pigeon for 10 years and she was free, and i spent so much time with her , especially out the front of the house, cause we had a hawk or two that lived in the other paddock, and i realised that if there was a hawk around, the peewee bird, looks like a small magpie, they were like the trumpeteers and they send out the alarm call all around the area and my pigeon and all her wild friends would know how close the hawk was by were the peewee was raising the alarm, it was amazing to see how all the bird species worked together against the hawk, so peewee is there little hero who keeps them all safe. i asked some people and i googled it but there was no knowledge of this but because i was my birds shadow and best friend i learnt how imp peewees are for pigeons safety, and peewee would eat with our wild pigeons and our pigeon, he would eat the seeds sometimes, a brave little fellow the peewees are, you may need to google how to get peewees to your farm and what attracts them,

You need to through some feed so that they can hear that way they will come in quicker

Time to bring the rifle out with the scope. They won't leave your birds alone until you put the fear in them. Actions have consequences they will learn to leave your birds alone.

Mate get a kite and paint eyes on either side the bigger and darker the better .try find a kite that's light in colour white preferably . Right each time you go to let your birds out before doing so you need the kite up in the air as high as possible you'll find the falcons will spook and stay away because the eyes are bigger than there's so they associate it with a bigger bird of prey and don't want to be prey themselves. The pigeons should settle down and get used to the kite if not put the kite on the ground flat so the eyes can still be seen from above . Hope this helps we have peregrines around us and lots of sparrow hawks but it's the hens that attack pigeons as the male sparrow hawk is smaller than a pigeon . 😉

Hey! Look out for tall buildings, peregrines prolly have a nest nearby in a tall building... Orrrrrr maybe u can catch the falcon and "examine" it lol

Lucky day my friend hurry a build that breeding loft and build your flock to battle with the hawks and falcons and get the other flock of high flyers flying

There used to be loads of blokes with tipplers by me but now they have all packed in because of the peregrine its going to love u when u loose the other birds out

if it was me, i would take my worse bird, send it up and have a shotgun ready. end of falcon. with all that food (pigeons), the falcons will just continue to breed.

My dad did this thing where he got a mirror to make the sun reflect off it and he would point it at it and he would go away

I couldn’t be doing with this every time I loose my birds out,it would be a Saturday night special for that hawk.

I feel your pain mate, i had falcons decimate my Birmingham rollers, the falcon is the fastest animal on the planet and very smart, they will use the sun to assist and use a path where the pigeon is blinded by the sun and swoop and take the pigeon who can't see it coming ... the best thing to do is have a separate loft of useless dummy pigeons like ordinary homers and let them out first, hopefully the falcon can catch one of them and then you're free to let your good birds out for a hassle free fly time.

What saved me was using sky rockets Fireworks 🎇🎇

Wow 😯 You should have clapped your hands, shout any noise to distract that Falcon! Not keep on watching 😕 Being a lifetime fancier, raced for 26 odd years here on Anglesey, North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 this is the part reason i packed up racing 😔together with the number of Sparrowhawk too, heartbreaking indeed. Their well and truly overprotected now here, I knew it would get worse back in 1984 it all started! If that's your first time being hit by Peregrine then be prepared for relentless attacks now I'm afraid 😑 This one here definitely a hungry juvenile and not all clued up yet! Usually if they don't get them in that stoop they give up unless there's two hunting together, but this one kept on turning back, making me think it's a juvenile Falcon? Enjoy watching your channel, brilliant fair play, but please next time be very wary of these predators they're lethal!

@ Maney Put fake owl figurine on top of your loft to scare the hawk

Whistle is the best way to organize pigeons together

I feel for ya Kirt i live not far from you there and the falcons are the reason i got out of pigeons they cleaned me out . When i was down to my last hen i gave up

Watching your pigeons is so much precious 😍😍 love from Bangladesh ❤️

Quick tips! Set a trap for falcons. There’s tons of videos on trapping falcons on RU-vid. Once you trap them take them somewhere really far and release them or just kill them.

sounds like a young falcon, learning. Good luck.

Just had a peregrine on my window sill, grabbed camera and it was gone.Wondered why my ringed pigeon didn't want feeding and cleared off sharpish!.

Wait till you experience peregrine and goshawk working together , then the fun realy starts .

That's crazy how fast they hit you! I only have a small team here but they got hit during a training toss last year and lost 90% of the team for about three days before they started to work their way back!! Look forward to seeing what your solution will be!

High flyers will be easily taken by the Royal Peregrine Falcon but for racing pigeon would be difficult abd challenging. In my city Kathmandu, of ring road 27.6 kilometer in one round we have more than 70 peregrine falcons so difficult to fly pigeons.

I get smashed by falcons a few times a week ... I’m in Jimboomba / Queensland . Best thing u did was take that board off .. Now the birds can drop straight down into the loft .. I call my resident falcon “Fernando” we do have a love hate relationship .. The score is falcon has only gotten 2 in the past few months not that bad but also not good .. Stay cool mate

Maney I knew you had a problem with an Apex Predator like a Peregrine Falcon, only one of those could have got Thunder.

Almosr one 1/2 didnt see your vedio bur now so many birbs in ur loft nice keep safe

A simple trick I use when I have trouble with hawks is when they are close by my birds I stay around and if the hawk starts to swoop down for one I clap really loud while going towards it and it seems to do the trick

I have a friend that raised falcons and he sets traps up and helps me remove the Hawks around my place basically catches them and then takes and releases them somewhere else far away I used to carry a shotgun down there and just fire the shotgun off to scare the Hawks and that work too

They’ll have to go through this many times while racing so deffo get them used to the perigrines and hawks

I hav the same kind of problem the birds. Will half to be a lil faster . But what you can try is 1. To get a colour. Of a bag that's look the same colour. Of the falcon or halk and wave it in front of them ⚠⚠ this will spook the birds into getting. Us to the falcon or halk hope this helps I try this and I still do and my birds don't even get soo spooked again .🙂 hope the birds are good and keep safe.

I had a friend who once had alot of crows around he kept feeding and they would chase the hawks away ,but got along good with the pigeons..yu can also hang shiny cd disc all around the loft and trees...if could cut some of the trees down on yur property that would be awesome ! The hawks camps out watching your timeline on when u are letting your pigeons out!

Kurt,we can’t win for losing. The hawks are still killing me.

I had problems with hawk's as well and I live in the Bronx.. The hawks would watch my pigeons from high rises near by ..So I started shooting sky rockets every time I seen one.. so now they don't sit around watching my bird's picking and choosing.. They are really scared of sky rockets .

Very interesting, all the best going forward - Johan Marais South Africa

They’ll aerial battle hawks and falcons. Our pigeons used to rally and chase off hawks in the air in summer after a hawk picked up some sunbathing juvenile pigeons.

Put a fake owl but make sure your pigeon is use to it so they don't get scared. Maybe it'll scare the falcon.

I just read the peregrine falcon reaches faster speeds than any other animal on the planet when performing its 'stoop', which involves soaring to a great height and then diving steeply at speeds of over 320 km/h (200 mph). A pigeon can reach 150 km/h (93.2 mph). That's equivalent to putting a Ferrari 812 up against a 1993 Ford Escort 1.3L. Bye bye pigeon.

You need to follow it n see where it waits because now he knows where your birds are he will never go away

I saw someone using a starter pistol to scare the hawks oway, maybe an option. Good luck

We always faced falcon problem in winter,often took my pigeons.

I am having falcon problems as well . Ive got many critter cam images of them and crows. Also a condor. Wow. Leave my birds alone. Theyve gotten 2 this week. What to do?

I took a white bath towel and tied it to a long wooden pole and if a falcon comes nearby i just wave the flag and the whit towel scares it away

When thy happens to me in my case I get a set of boxing mitts and put them on and hit as harders I can like 10 times. By the 5th time the hawks goes always fast.he thinks it’s a gun shoot and he lives a old pigeon flyer though me that try it and u see friend it works. That way u won’t hurt the hawk either good luck men!!

Your whistling them in. But not offering food. Pigeon keeping 101 when you whistle make sure you feed them. 🤦‍♂️

Shot gun could scare the pigeon's so a trap is a better option. Remember Maney, your birds are young so your chances of loosing them are high.

Absolute crazy filming mate never seen anything like it

If that falcons nesting he will take one bk to his mate and return for his own

You having a loft for every system eventually maney?

Forget about racing if you are going to go through that all the time. You will have a hard time competing. Unless you don't drop them. But good luck with. The hawks cause once they grab one and know that pigeons are there they will be back every day.

Wow...that was intense

Falcons take the fun out the hobby ....

I will protect my pigeons i dont care if they are eagles or anything else i will protect them no matter the cost

You need bottle rockets to scare them falcons.

Hello, I had the same problem, the pigeons were flying suddenly, from where the hawk appeared, the pigeons did not manage to escape and the loss of 5 pigeons greetings🇵🇱

My friend it's a bit thrilling experience to ur young ones, during race we face this a lot because of hawk many of birds will reach home with chest open😭

And don’t open them in the morning or anytime before midday as there not hungry at those times usually

Does a fake owl who makes noise ... will scare falcons away ... 👍

Maney they gonna get use to him dont worry they have to get use to him that's life bro but once the birds are fit your good dont be scared to put em out they gotta learn hope all goes well brother

That was so too close wheeew

2.56bro you are fastest runner

Definitely have to do something about the falcons.....the fireworks are a good idea....just to show the predators these birds are protected.

Can u pls make videos on the highflyers channel

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Saturday is very sunny

Hi bru I feel your pain but good luck

Get a loud whistle for when the hawks come in if you blow it most of the time it will scare them away

He was sitting back watching you waiting for you to let them out. Peregrine falcons are the very worst! That thing needs to go ASAP.

That thing will pick off most of you're birds eventually,,, time to nip it in the bud mate,, get creative 👍

Shotgun. It tends to work for deterring hawks/falcons. Stops them in their tracks.

Hi every one how are you

I am very, very afraid for a beef cake 

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Mate..if any predator comes near my birds at any time..sorry but nothing a shot gun won't fix... I'd never kill any creature for fun but when it comes to my pigeons..12 gauge thunder.

Get yourself a 800 lumin or higher flashlight/torch, it’ll blind and scare them off

Will you let your breeder birds play again?

This is ur worse night mare the peregrine is the fastest animal on the planet when diving it goes high then swoops at over 200 mph this looks like a young 1 perfecting its hunting ability,over here they r protected by law

Did they all make it back?

Just let beefcake out first.... He'll take one look and never come back

They seem to be starving, poor birds

I love you maney lofts Froom morocco

Where did you get the reds?

too many trees hideouts

Bro just shout saying "Sodanirfoa Baazpakhi" whenever you see a hawk! It might help...

I hate to say it but you will never get peace my friend , you are in a rural area , hawks of all kinds will be constantly attacking your birds , they will eventually start picking them off the loft roof , believe me I have had a couple took straight off the roof , you are saying get them hawk savy , never going to happen , best thing is shoot the buggers , illegal or not when the problem gets this bad it's your only option