oh and look at this one look they're both here but that one's been hawked
it's got a gaping wound in its throat look oh dear
try and work out where the damage is over there look there under the crop under the wing okay
okay can't super glue it well it's got seeds in it can we it's got an eye on full crop
okay right so what I'm going to do with that I'm going to put some infection out
you're going to glue it put the glue on Matt do you want to do it and then I'll
push it all right sorry for it I was a good thing it's not even
it smells like you smell it smell I think that's closed up the crop the crops closed okay
there we go I've just come back from work and look who sat on top of the loft
that's another one of our so we just one missing now oh he found your way back well done
it's a really great feeling actually when uh when they Rock up oh and look at this one look
they're both here but that one's been hawked it's got a gaping wound in its throat look oh dear
right well we've just uh done the emergency repair to the pigeon I'm not convinced I've
never done that before by the way obviously I could probably tell but I'm not convinced it's
going to work because I think once the it starts to work its stomach that might that super glue
might just like pop open it literally looks like that the womb does so um tomorrow I'm going to try
and get a needle and thread and try and do like a suture or something if it does pop up pop off so
look what it's like tomorrow if it's dripping wet then it's obviously leaking um but the worry is
that the super glue is going to do more damage now but now to try something because it kept trying
to drink and eat and it was just all falling out so well bloody horrible smell really bad as well
um not not rotten just smell of Flesh I guess um so yeah uh we'll see what happens in the morning
and uh if it's worked okay then great if not then I'm gonna have to try and Stitch it and if
that doesn't work well then there's nothing more you can do is there really yeah real shame that
so dad's just taken them for another five mile toss 5.2 miles I think it is uh the hens have just
gone at 20 past 11. I split them up into hens and [ __ ] just because the [ __ ] were pestering the
hens so much um whenever they landed they couldn't even get him through the Trap so um I've just
split them up for a bit I'm not sure if that's something that you generally do or not but we're
giving it a test anyway and we did it yesterday and the hens took about 25 minutes yesterday
the day before hens took about 25 minutes to get back the [ __ ] were here straight away
um might have been doing half an hour for the end but anyway the [ __ ] are definitely quicker
um but I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing to do but we've also made a couple of
Novel modifications they weren't trapping great or Landing great because the trees have overgrown
quite a lot so that's next door neighbor's tree which is overgrown on our side quite a lot could
do with that being locked back and then I've also trimmed this um um silver birch as well
which is a big pile of branches there just so they can see through I've also got some of this
mesh which is what Charlie uses uh which I'll stick up at the top and that's just to try and
prevent them from landing on top of the Loft all the time and hopefully use the landing board more
um so yeah we'll see if that makes a difference I've not done it today but it's going to be
bad weather for the next few days which is why I wanted to get the toss in today um and over those
next few days I'll I'll make these modifications to The Loft I also need to put a pad on the other
side of the Trap where I can um like a wooden box where I can slide the ETS sensor underneath so The
Landing Pad so there's a few jobs to be doing uh over the next few days all right so we're
in six minutes so far or some blue sky over there hardly any wind compared to what we normally have
but this is their third toss at this uh this point so and
it's about as far as I really want to take them um at the moment but
let's see if they uh make it back my Christmas mug of tea come over there
what's that eight minutes record
Maria yeah eight minutes that's better in it
come on
yeah the [ __ ] seven minutes
here we go
a little more going over past the pylons so we might we might get one in a minute or two
yep
straight in foreign
Charlie no one behind you
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scaffolding you and putting scaffold up over there making lots of rackets
another one coming Charlie behind you
no it's a wood pigeon yeah there's a is that one behind you
one of them did
so there's one just set on the roof there not only to clock in
it's starting to rain now
eight
so um we're now up to 10 miles training tops my dad's just taken them always just
let them go we'll split them up into two is let the first lot go at 23 minutes past so
we took them there yesterday uh the first time at 10 miles and I think the first lot
took about 35 minutes to get back in the second lot we're about 15 20. so
um they arrive within a few minutes of each other actually you see we've got a couple of
modifications I've done put some concrete down now for in front of the Loft and then I'm going
to put some steps here and then do something at the front once I move the forms out by but this
is just a lot better so that in the winter I can walk on this and it's not going to be
um you know muddy and whatnot and I've also got these chains on which I'll do a video
on this later but I've basically supported the landing board a little bit better and
it's worked really well to load up the birds because I've had a couple of problems with them
um trying to capture them so to begin with I just tried to catch them put them in the or
try to tempt them in with a bit of seed and that worked okay for some of them but the other half
weren't having it so then I was trying to chase them and they just stressed them out I put the
darkness boards up which made it a bit easier to catch them but then um it was still stressing them
out and stressing me out as well to be honest so uh what I eventually did was um adapted this the
the latch here so that I can put this down fold that out and I can put the crate onto there and
now just put a Sprinkle a couple of seeds not many and the [ __ ] will come rushing out straight out
into the and dead easy to basket actually work to treat the hens are a little bit more nervous and
it's going to take a bit more work on them some of them will go straight in some of them won't
but it's definitely a better way of getting them than I had been done previously so uh what are we
now they've been up in the air for four minutes it's 10 miles so I'll keep an eye out for them
see if they come in right so it's 33 minutes past still no sign of them yet or you wouldn't
expect it that'd be 60 miles an hour so far but it's only their second time it's at 10 miles so
interestingly I've um the hen that got hawked and we glued back together again
um the repair seemed to hold really well and I opened the latch the next day and a lot of the
hens jumped out she sat on top of the landing board for a bit and then within five minutes
she was out there flying with them so I took her yesterday and she was a bit behind the others but
made it back seems fine so I've sent her again today just because whenever I let them Loft fly
she's out there flying with them for an hour so I don't really see any reason not to send her
um remarkable really that that she's flying at all I'd be laid up in bed for weeks if
something like that happened to me but it's good to see and she obviously wants to fly and
um but she was behind yesterday she was the last bird in so it was a bit difficult for her
um hopefully the second time she'll know where she's going so
come on pigeons where are you
sparrowhawk there's a spiral hook just there look
yeah look pigeons spotted it the pigeons just arrived just at the same time as the sparrowhawk
at least I've seen it
okay so I don't know if they're gonna come in and land while that's around
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna call them down or will I
foreign
I said I'm not going to call him down and literally two seconds later I'm calling them down
okay so dad let the hands go now
I don't know if they're going to come down which is going to
be a ball late when the hens come back I have to split them all up
they've all got to do it oh none of them
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well when they finally came down that was pretty damn good I think I think they're a little bit
nervous because of the sparrow hawk but actually probably the best trap so far I'm happy with that
all right so the hens are due next they're a lot smaller and you can actually feel the weight
difference between the hens and the [ __ ] and the uh the hens are definitely lighter and smaller and
probably an easier Target for the for the sparrow hook but it didn't seem too interested in them
then probably because they were already in the air and the spiral hook prefers to Ambush them but
because it's had them a couple of times
um so we've got what was that oh I would time that see what time I think it was about two minutes ago
wasn't it it's not a dead note um we've got 19 here so far I'm pretty sure we've got 20 [ __ ]
because that one there as wrong as a [ __ ] but I think which was in 10 20 earlier so one short
but they're um but they're leaving all the uh maze there
the hens were sent at 38 so it didn't take them long I ordered it 20 or 10 to 33. 43
I think that took them 15 minutes let's have a look 15 minutes for the [ __ ] to do 10 miles
I don't know that's too bad really all right so that's 10 minutes for the hens I think the
hens might be quicker you know because they were quicker than that [ __ ] yesterday and there's a
bit of a Tailwind today so hands aren't back yet did they clear all right the hens I won't let
him go at that end of that road you're quite away from the A1 but there's a gap in the trees and if
they go through that it's straight onto the motor yeah anyone even yeah well it's been an hour and
15 minutes and we've only had three hens back so far we've had the two slowest hens one of the ones
that was um Hawks previously she came back with another one which is you those two are usually the
last ones here so I'm not sure what's happened to the main batch I imagine that these two got
left behind and just made their own way back and then another one has come which is um that arrived
about 10 minutes ago so we're still 17. we're still 14 missing so far after now 15 minutes
so hopefully they'll come together as a batch but you know this is the longest uh training session
we've had so far and well the [ __ ] were back in was it say 15 minutes or something like that
oh better late than never it's only taken them an hour and a half
so I think tomorrow or the next time I take them I'll um I let them have a loft fly first because
I don't believe that they've looked I don't believe that they've taken
that long to get back I think they've been just off flying see if we can get them in