kestrel attacking my decoys

[kinderbeano 13]

out with a friend shooting pigeons over stubble a few days ago. the shooting was going well and we had plenty of shot birds and shell decoys out..i had noticed a female kestrel hunting near by and even with all the gun shots she started to take an intrest in our decoys,after making 2 or 3 passes she dove straight in for a kill, only to find her dinner was made of plastic,she sat there scratching and pecking the decoy.realy wish i had a video camera with me,was really amazing to see..just wondering if anyone else had anything strange or intresting like this happen while out shooting pigeons

[R.D.A 0]

My Uncle Once Told me he had a pigeon trying to mate with a decoy had a shock then the over and under took a fancy to it lol

[nessie122 0]

Had 3 Buzzards hovering over decoys a few weeks back, one actually attacked a wounded pigeon. Also seen a few Sparrowhawks as well.

[masmiffy 82]

I was decoying with Chimp on his permission and we had a sparrowhawk dive on a dead bird we had set out.

It sat there for a bit pulling feathers out, tried to get it on the mobile but was too far off.

[ulverston moocher 60]

zini has some footage of a pigeon mating with a decoy on his new vermin control with a spring rifle dvd seen the clip advertising the dvd it will be on the air rifle section

[watchman 256]

out with a friend shooting pigeons over stubble a few days ago. the shooting was going well and we had plenty of shot birds and shell decoys out..i had noticed a female kestrel hunting near by and even with all the gun shots she started to take an intrest in our decoys,after making 2 or 3 passes she dove straight in for a kill, only to find her dinner was made of plastic,she sat there scratching and pecking the decoy.realy wish i had a video camera with me,was really amazing to see..just wondering if anyone else had anything strange or intresting like this happen while out shooting pigeons

bet it was good to see that,had a peregrine drop into my pattern of shot birds last year,it soon realised something was wrong and made off almost immediately,great to see though

[CO CHISE 329]

Had 3 Buzzards hovering over decoys a few weeks back, one actually attacked a wounded pigeon. Also seen a few Sparrowhawks as well.

same here pal with a buzzard, it started to hover over a hypa flapper we had out and then it dropped to about a foot over the decoy then must of realized it wasnt the real thing, also saw my first peregrine in wild aswell whilst out shooting, it landed about 6ft above us in the hide looking at our pattern but it cant of been set out good because it didnt have ago at the decoys

[consett lad 43]

i was out 3 weeks back when i heard the grass move looked out to see a fox walk straight in to my pattern and pick one of my dead birds . she sharp dropped it when she got a mouth full of steel

[MOO 730]

I find it hard to believe a kes would hunt pigeons are you sure it wasnt a spar

[fozzy41 9]

I`ve had many strikes at my deeks over the years, mainly from Sparrowhawks. One of the last times a Sparrowhawk dived down and snatched a freshly shot pigeon, took off with it and landed further down the field. Later on i had to retrieve a woody from that area, from under a tree, and found the pigeon that the Sparrowhawk had taken. It had plucked it and taken the breast meat off it. I don`t mind them taking the odd pigeon off me, it`s a great scene to witness.

 

Fozzy

[Chid 6,488]

in our area we get quite alot of sparrow hawks and buzzards flying over the decoys .

father in law said he was out one day and seen a sparrow hawk lift a shot pigeon , and take it further down the field... also ive seen a buzzard drop onto a dead pigeon that landed in the field behind where we was shooting from ..