Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8976 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 22 10:18 am Post subject:
Dpack the bangle will give details..there is a system for returning a bird.
It is surprising how many don't return..and how short the racing season is, no more than two or three months a year, weather permitting.
When you think how much time money and energy goes into racing pigeons!
I think it is a ringlet. Don't usually see them with their wings open, but ringlets have those rings on both sides of the wings.
sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 22 8:03 am Post subject:
Thanks MR, I was hoping someone would know what it is.
Shane
Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 3467 Location: Doha. Is hot.
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 22 12:30 pm Post subject:
After brood #1 failed, the second attempt seems to be more successful. Nice of the moggie to keep a permanent watch on things, just to make sure they are okay
Well the chicks should grow up not too frightened of moggies; at least through glass. Hope they realise in time that feral ones aren't so friendly.
We think we had a purple emperor butterfly visit us yesterday. Not too sure as it was rather fast, but big dark coloured butterfly, so can't have been anything else. The robin is back begging for food, and sometimes another robin too. As they seem to tolerate each other, we think they must be a pair.
sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 22 8:30 am Post subject:
Excellent pictures Shane and I love that the cat is keeping a close eye on things.
Shane
Joined: 31 Oct 2005 Posts: 3467 Location: Doha. Is hot.
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 22 1:00 pm Post subject:
I suspect he will be sitting in the garden underneath their ledge with his mouth wide open as soon as they start testing their flight feathers
At least most of them will have reared their young, so only their own beaks to fill. The yard robin was very much in evidence yesterday. Flying around all over the place and getting plenty of crumbs. There is water available for it too. Seemed to be mainly a day of pigeons. Sounded as if they had started harvest, so may be safer for them in the woods while the big machinery is trundling round. I think they are wood pigeons anyway.
Heard a muntjac deer barking on Tuesday night. We heard it last year too, so may be trying to attract females. Saw a roe deer near the road on the way up to the woods as well.
the sammisons seem to have survived well, 2 adults and 3 juveniles at the mo
ballsi sammison looks as though he might outdo buffi sammison in the bodybuilding game
that is a butch young mouse, he makes glen and ilex look under endowed
Well the chicks should grow up not too frightened of moggies; at least through glass. Hope they realise in time that feral ones aren't so friendly.
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