Ranging With the Raptors 

You bird is very quality 🙂 ilike you bird? True ☺️

Is anyone gets hurt??

Good morning, is it again? I see that you have taken a long time. I hope that you and your birds are fine

Hi Brahim. With the current events at our border, I didn't feel like filming... hoping for better days.

@@Pigeonmaniacom I understand the situation. I hope that the ordeal will end. It is difficult to meet (Corona) until the world calms down and then we meet with wars. It is a miserable situation. I hope you are fine and no harm will befall you and your family. Greetings to you and the people of your country from Algeria to your dear country 💖

Multumesc. Urmaresc si eu pe Tiktok un canal care cred ca iti apartine, bune filmarile postate cu atacurile. Nu imi e foarte clar ce este cu acel stol imens, daca apartine cuiva sau sunt salbaticiti.

@@Pigeonmaniacom sunt la mine in sat,, însă nu am timp foarte mult sa ii filmez dar atacuri sunt cu grămada,, lansate și de șoim și de uliu

@@Pigeonmaniacom which tiktok can u mention it please

Numele canalului?

@@haroonhidayat @mocan ms

Thank you. I'm in Campulung, Romania, by the mountains. I use a Sony a6600 and the iPhone XR but the footage is too shaky since I can't use a tripod for filming the sky and so far away, sometimes right above my head. Great area in your videos. I had a good laugh at your video "THE STRUGGLE IS REAL"... that could be me, trying to trim the infinite growing grass.

@@Pigeonmaniacom My next door neighbors are from Radauti. About 450 km north of you. They are the best neighbors I have ever had. Because of them, I have learned a lot about Romania. They have been in America for a little over 10 years. Great people. I just love pigeons! Racing Pigeons in particular. I had to give them up many years ago because I became allergic to them. I carefully study your birds. They are in great health. I really like their confirmation. And I just love the way they wear out the Raptors. Ha ha

Hello from Romania.

Thank you.

Chachii rooozi nu lun paaaa jaaa k...poura

Hi Timothy. Thank you for your comment. I spend hours filming in the cold winter to select these few minutes clips. I am honoured and happy somebody your age and experience watches my videos. You are right, a smaller team moves always better, the smaller the better. My only problem is my obsession to breed many pigeons because I love "creating" new pigeons and curious on the phenotypes that appear. For this year I have 23 mature birds, the survivors from the previous winters and I will keep them separate in a section to fly them like this at least until January before uniting them with the youngsters. I also bred 70+ latebreds for this winter. I do not fly my club team in winter though, accidents can happen and they worked already too much in summer. From the winter survivor latebreds I keep the best 2-3 couples for next winters and for breeding and I move the others in the club team. Most fanciers do not think this way about the falcon test but I think that if the pigeons can't handle it at home in familiar territory and fully rested... what chances do they have in a race? They have to travel through hundreds of falcon and hawk territories in a long distance event. At home, the hawk is much worse than the falcon because it comes at the loft, and many of my losses happen when pigeons escape the falcon and dive in trees or gardens and hawks go after them. This selects the most calm birds, besides their required agility and speed. I'd love to know more about you and your pigeons and if you do something similar. Best regards, Andrei.

Nice. Hello from Romania.

Thank you.

Multumesc. Sanatate!

Hi Graham. Thank you. No breeding yet, probably after the 1st of March. Did you start earlier? Did you let the pigeons fly? Best wishes.

@@Pigeonmaniacom No my friend im still finishing my pigeon loft. Hopefully in 2 weeks i will be finished as ive ordered young birds and i will try to break some of my dads pigeons. This Brexit crap has made things so expensive right now with building materials but i will get there. Thank you for your reply.

Thank you, Sven. I lose about 10-30 pigeons per winter, depending on many factors.

@@Pigeonmaniacom Danke für deine Antwort, ich habe in diesem Winter bereits 5 verloren….letzten Sonntag holte der Falke eines meiner besten Weibchen 😢

Both Goshawk & Peregrine Falcon. They attack much more in autumn-winter here.

10-30 in winter, depending on year... in summer it is easier.

It depends on attacks and weather. When it is really dark and cold I only let them out for 10-15 minutes to stay fit. I think the record this winter was about 3 hours of flying.

@@Pigeonmaniacom WOW... loving you videos, please post more if possible... :-)

The survivors are indeed some special birds and they deserve breeding more like them.

Hi Hedley. Peregrine falcons and goshawks attack here. I don't lose pigeons at home during spring and summer, except some youngsters when they start ranging and get around falcons. The hawk attacks start by the beginning of autumn. 99% of the fanciers lock their birds after the young birds races end in October. Then the falcons also start to attack. I have a small team of old birds that I don't race at the club, I just keep them for winter flying at home, I can't stay 6 months without seeing birds in flight. Some late breds join these birds. I lose about 20-40 per winter. The best survive and they are spectacular birds, surviving hundreds of attacks.

I keep the best fliers for next winter and move the rest to the club racing team. We raced over the mountains this year and surprisingly, my best two young birds were from the winter team and not from the experienced youngsters trained at the club last year.

Only young hawks.

@@Pigeonmaniacom ne a spart asta cu accipiterii lui manca'

Da, destule.

@@Pigeonmaniacom eu am făcut un mic antrenament, era vremea bună, cald și din 20 nu s a mai întors niciunul, nu știu ce sa întâmplat

@@ionutbunduc1250 Ionuț..este mult prea devreme ptr. antrenamente acum, chiar de ii duci la 5 km, si chiar de sunt 15 grade afară..sau dezorientat, as vrea ca macar jumatate din ei sa ti se reintoarcă..ceea ce este puțin probabil

@@unlimitedpassion9856 nu cred ca o sa mai vina, mi am dat seama abia după ce i am dus ca e prea devreme pentru antrenament, am văzut ca era călduț am zis ca merge, dar m am înșelat, asta e învațăm din greșeli 😁 te salut

@@ionutbunduc1250 pai stai linistit ca si eu am patit la fel anu trecut prin februarie...i am dus la vre o 8 km aerieni, 9 pasari ...din aia 9 doar 1 mi sa intors inainte sa ajung eu acasa, vre o 4 sau intors pe seara, si inca 2 a 2a zi..deci a 2 a zi de la 8 km, erau lesinati..am zis ca nu e adevarat . 2 dintre ei nu s au mai intors nici in ziua de azi. Un batran columbofil mia spus....pana nu da coltu ierbi si frunza n pom, sa nu mai fac asa ceva.

Sony 18-105mm F4

Campulung, AG.

​@@Pigeonmaniacom Lol, found your house with google maps :D it turns out the forest begins behind the house.. Not a very good place to release pigeons in terms of a predator

Peregrine falcon. The hawks are more destructive here because they get down to the loft. But all of the birds of prey have their role in nature and an extinction would be very bad even for the birds that are prey, including pigeons - suprapopulation, weak individuals breeding and uncontrolled diseases.