Brrr! A chill in the air and on the airwaves!

Brrr!
What a week. What with the fallout on Radio 2 of various presenters and the snow on Wednesday a certain chill in the air in more ways than one!
Not to mention Bill and Kate chasing around after the wildlife..
The snow on Wednesday fell in a huge lump onto our garden ! The raspberry [...]

Roller Pigeon – saved

The rogue sparrowhawk attacked again this afternoon but, by dint of swift action by The Major and yours truly, we were able to rescue it from the clutches of the attacker.  We are still not sure if the victim will live but we have tucked it up in the pigeon loft, with a supply of [...]

Red Kites

One pair of our Roller Pigeons recently had the bright idea of nesting on the ledge of the dovecot instead of in one of the nesting boxes. All was well until the baby was big enough to move – which must have been yesterday! It then fell over the edge and died. End of parenthood [...]

Roller pigeons, Swimming pools and other stuff!

So our Roller pigeons have been flying free for the last three days – and so far so good – they seem to be avoiding the sparrow hawk! (See other posts in this blog on Rollers to catch up with their traumas!)
Major Dickie and I went shopping this evening and bought a new vacuum cleaner! [...]

Roller Pigeons – again!

Oh Dear
We should have been more decisive last night! Well over the pigeon issue at least!
We didn’t shut them in and now the sparrow hawk is having breakfast – having first scattered pigeon feathers in a nice mass in the garden. It‘s depressing and it‘s not good news for our lovely Rollers.
Note – to see [...]

The quandry about our Birmingham Roller Pigeons

The poor things don’t know whether they’re coming or going! Three weeks ago we let them out and although initially all seemed well, the sparrow hawk took up residence in a local tree and proceeded to pick them off at a rather alarming rate. So last weekend we locked them in again. The sparrow hawk [...]