beautiful day for it today
there's a group of four just up there They're flying together I'm not sure who that is actually
then we've got some of the younger ones that look like they're sticking quite close
That's awesome they've never been that high
that's a scrap metal collector that you can hear
oh this is awesome this is awesome
well we've let the birds out for a bit of a fly and we've got one two three
four five six seven eight nine here which means there's eight not here they are look
they've been gone for about 10 minutes they're flying really well together
brilliant i literally just turned the camera on because i thought oh here we go
we've lost them all again and they're just doing really big laps around the village which is
which is great it was actually a really good fly that they've just had half of them went up the
other half didn't but they've been up for about 15 20 minutes i think i've got some good photos
as well so they're all here anyway hold 17 so none lost this time which is great um my lamb out
a little bit longer i'll leave them out a little bit longer it is quite early still yeah quite good
yeah there's three missing from that bunch
i think they wanted to come down aren't they now
so i wanted to do a uh a quick explanation as to why i think that the pigeons that we keep losing
and by losing i just mean they just disappear because of the cats or the
um the buzzard or the red kite or the sparrow hawk or whatever it is that seems to scare them away
they uh they go missing and we've had couple we've had one that's gone missing for 24 hours and
another that's gone missing for a few hours i've had several that have gone missing for a few hours
and the reason i think they don't go that far or that we get them back is because the village that
we're in is in a bit of a bowl and it's surrounded by fields and forests and it's a relatively big
village i think it's between 700 and a thousand houses maybe less than that actually um
but there's lots of places for a pigeon to hide and although it could fly across the whole village
in i don't know 30 seconds um i think it's a bit like leaving the safety of the village because
it's open fields and then forest and there's lots of features that they can see and so if you look
over there it's basically it's forest all the way around fields and then there's just this blo
blob of houses um if i can try and do that i've got a i've used the the dslr to try and get a
a shot of it and i've come up to the top of nicobush hill which is this hill here um
and you've obviously got this big pile on here there's a radio tower through there which i'll
show you shortly and um and there's loads of other features around uh there's a boot
and pumping station which is a big chimney just over there i'll try and get that but the sun's
directly behind the village at the moment so the shot isn't perfect but i think that's possibly
one of the reasons why um the birds aren't going too far if i was in a big town or a city
and perhaps even if i was just a single house in the middle of the countryside
then they may they may disappear for longer but i just think that when they get spooked they fly
off and they hide somewhere in that village and then you know we've had a couple of birds that
have gone they've never been out so there's no real way surely that they can find their way back
to the loft maybe so i don't know but i think this is it i think because we're in that bottom
and it's just forest and fields around this nucleus of uh of the village i think that's why
we managed to get them back which i'm happy about and there's also one road um oh there's several
roads but there's a main road that runs all the way along there and cuts through the village or to
the side of the village and we're we're very close to that that road so that's what i think anyway