Good to hear you have had the birds vaccinated Andy, I'm hoping to get mine done next Sunday, they should all have laid by then. Most of the birds bred in my loft are fine as I am constantly in and out of their nest boxes when they are babies and do like handle them as much as I can, however since ...

We are all the same like that, we keep too many pigeons and breed too many off pairs that we really shouldn't.
I always end up with nest bowls in all the corners, behind the middle door....
Too soft, that's my problem.

When I was doing that post, this picture came up, of Flynn, who is a floofy cat.
Since it was there, you get to enjoy it too.

I have a bale of nice clean straw in a barrel, I put a generous amount in a bowl when I put it in a box. This makes me feel like I am doing the right thing. :) It is in fact, useless. There is a big gum tree hanging over our back fence. This is what the pigeons gather for their nests. Gum leaves. 00...

That's what you want to see.

This might seem like a strange thing to say, but i didn't know if mine are wild or not. I very seldom handle them but they seem unperturbed by my presence, and will walk into the loft over my shoes if I am standing in the way. So today I did a small experiment. After the birds had had their free tim...

Andy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:47 pm I must say that I don’t have any problems with it. It certainly is much quicker than the last one. It’s really just the photos that I don’t like so much as mine always come out on their side.

I just thought that was because you are north of the equator.

Are you ticking 'remember me' when signing on?
If I don't it does that to me too.
I am quite happy with it now, although sometimes it has a blonde moment and logs me off or something.

The rain cleared to patchy showers.
It is warm and a bit humid.
Beautiful

I agree that letting them have an open loft is the best way, but I couldn't do it here. They would be getting picked off by the hawks until there was nothing left. Already a few of this years youngsters are gone, and the rest have had enough frights that they bolt for the loft as soon as they sense ...