Peregrine's

[Bendigo 887]

4 hours ago, Greyman said:

I think the bit your missing is that most ferals started  life in a loft but never returned have a look when your in town burnt up feet from the acid on the window ledges and rings on there legs if you shot 10 ferals you would get 3/4 ring 

I shoot about 1000 a year in local towns and only ever get a handful of rings off em.

I found one sat on eggs on a window ledge and when I caught it I found a ring on it. I took it to a local bloke who races pigeons and told him he could return it to the owner as I had no room for it. He felt it and said "that's in good condition it's not been lost long". I didn't tell him it had been lost long enough to pair up and lay eggs in town! I've not seen him since to ask who's it was and how long it had been away. 

 

[Greyman 31,804]

31 minutes ago, Bendigo said:

I shoot about 1000 a year in local towns and only ever get a handful of rings off em.

I found one sat on eggs on a window ledge and when I caught it I found a ring on it. I took it to a local bloke who races pigeons and told him he could return it to the owner as I had no room for it. He felt it and said "that's in good condition it's not been lost long". I didn't tell him it had been lost long enough to pair up and lay eggs in town! I've not seen him since to ask who's it was and how long it had been away. 

 

Possibly depends on the number of people racing them in the area and the amount of breeding going on quite interesting as I said haven’t shot them in as big numbers we did as kids but back them it was way over 50% most of those old warehouses are million pound flats now 

[shaaark 11,435]

13 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Possibly depends on the number of people racing them in the area and the amount of breeding going on quite interesting as I said haven’t shot them in as big numbers we did as kids but back them it was way over 50% most of those old warehouses are million pound flats now 

Think I've told you this before, G, Bristol docks back in 1982 and 1983, we had a company called BSM, on contract for us to control the pests/vermin for them.

Kin el, never seen so many rats and feral pigeons, along with loads of feral moggies, in one area!!

With poisoning, trapping plus a bit of air rifling, we never seemed to make a dent in their numbers, even though we killed thousands!!