yeah... I remember when I was a kid had a boyfriend with rollers and
used to lay outside in the field and watch em roll. never remember
losing em to hawks, but then we were just coming off use of DDT and
there werent too many raptors anywhere.

My DH and I wanted to keep and fly some rollers and we had those birds
1 week before the raptors found em. The birds were never allowed out
and eventually the weasels found a way thru several layers of chicken
wire and killed them all in the flight cage. sigh. Keeping flying
pigeons would only work in the middle of a pretty big city. I am in
Milwaukee and the other day I was sitting outside in my backyard when
I nearly got bopped by some kinda hawk trying to snag a sparrow. We
are only 6 blocks from the lake and woods, but even so.......

glad to see the raptors back. Ingrid

On Thu, 31 May 2007 12:45:39 CST, San Diego Joe
I read in the paper the other day where a group of people who raise
"tumbling" pigeons have killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 to
2,000 raptors per year because they attack their pigeons! People never cease
to amaze me when it comes to what "they" think is right. Here's a link:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...78.story?ctrac
k=1&cset=true