Posted on 06/09/2007 6:23:38 PM PDT by jazusamo
Ping!
Just a few days ago, I saw a bald eagle take out a crow. I would hate to see anyone kill off our raptors for any reason.
Exactly...It’s sounds like this is no small deal with the killing of up to a thousand in OR and WA alone.
If I lived where this crap was going on I would be out there shooting the pigeons. But I wouldn’t use the 3S method they are talking about here. I have 5 cats and they can take care of the disposal aspect.
Send some raptors my way, please. I have some filthy pigeons infesting my property and I’m sick of killing the hens. The roosters fly away before I can draw a bead on ‘em, then come back grieving over the dead hens. Pitiful. Time to study falconry.
Hawks kill rats and other vermin. I welcome them.
I just can’t picture people killing raptors because of their rat pigeons. If they did this I hope they get nailed good but it looks like it’s only a misdemeanor.
Hawks and falcons are apex predators of great beauty. I'd rather see every filthy disgusting disease-spreading pigeon in the country killed before one peregrine falcon.
-ccm
I vote for the Pigeons.
A thousand raptors or more verses retarded pigeons?
They gotta be kidding me.
Someday, maybe in its tenth season, “Dogfights” will show the Hawk vs Pidegon battles ;)
We need them here in New York. Peregrines are making a comeback in the city but there still aren’t enough. We have too many pigeons still.
Hawks and raptors are beautiful and great birds.
I’ll take them over stupid pidgeons everyday. Pidgens=flying rats.
That’d be interesting, the raptor would win every time, just like the F-22. :-)
Posting reflects joy in falcons' deaths
Saturday, June 09, 2007
The Oregonian
A posting on a roller pigeon Web site, recorded by the Audubon Society of Portland:
A few years ago the city of Portland decided it was time to paint the St. Johns Bridge in the process of prepping the bridge they had discovered a pair of Falcons that took up residency on the bridge.
In futher investigating they found two chicks in a nest on one of the highest cross beams on the bridge at the nesting site. They had a plan as to what to do with them to get them to maturity. Over the river in Ridgefield Washington the tax payers supported a bill to build a hack site on the wildlife refuge area where many song birds, ducks, whooping cranes etc would feed.
This would be the ideal location to get the young falcons situated and learn to hunt. Well low and behold just across the street from the wildlife refuge lives a roller flyer and when the young became airbourne they found alot of led in the air space across the street where the rollers were flying LOL!!
I laughed and laughed when I heard this story because of all the pain staking measures they took to get these birds to adolescence and than to have somone take them out simply was bliss!!
I think the odds are against us guys even if we all could shoot but let me leave you with this. When and if you do use the 3- S system shoot, shovel and shutup!
In a response to the posting, someone wrote:
Brought a smile to my face. I've had a couple of reasons to smile personally. Need the opportunity to do some more of it if you know what I mean.
Charged with a misdemeaner??? That’s it? Jeez, if you get caught with a suspect animal down here, they’ll take your truck, your gun, your firstborn, fine you 50 G’s AND put you in jail.
The sad thing is that the Raptors are only doing what they are born to do, the “roller pigeons” are genetically defective, such behavour invites predation, and these Tom fools are killing them to “save” their malfunctioning pigeons.
That, and I the only one that finds it funny that these dullards are:
1. Posting on an internet forum about killing protected wildlife
2. then that poster is admonishing the readers to “shoot shovel and shut up”?
3. Then people are replying what a wonderful idea that they kill protected species..
I think those pigeon owners are right at home with their mentally defective birds for a reason...err “Birds of a feather flock together” they both attract predation for very similar actions...LOL
I’ve hunted in OR for years and something about that doesn’t sound right to me about that but maybe it is.
You’ve got that right, they’re definitely not mental giants. It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s what got the Feds after them in the beginning.
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