Please select 4K quality or you are wasting your time with this one. I started this season with the biggest winter team ever. Not the best thing but... ah well, will see how they behave as a flock. For now this was one of the most serious marathon chases of the falcon and it broke the 96 pigeons flock into pieces. I love pigeons dropping from the sky like an avalanche, this is why I like arrivals from short distance races especially when I have a big racing team. Now thanks to the falcon and this big winter team I managed to see the crazy arrivals in off-season. Fortunately it missed this time which I couldn't believe, since I have a lot of inexperienced young birds (~70) and only 20 experienced old birds from the previous winter seasons. Of course they were lucky because the hawks weren't around, otherwise they would have caught some of the birds dropping from the sky, especially the ones hiding in the trees.
U mnie dwa ataki sokoła w kilka dni.Pierwszy bez strat a za drugim niestety strata młodej samiczki. Sokół to uparty i silny drapierznik.Pozdrawiam z RP.
@@longinlewandowski7019 Hello from Romania. Yes, the falcon is very powerful and fit, it can chase the pigeons for minutes but I prefer it instead of hawks. I think the hawks are more dangerous because they attack at ground level. I would have lost some pigeons this time after they escaped the falcon, if the hawks were in the area.
@@Pigeonmaniacom The grouse hawk surpasses the peregrine falcon at any heights. And not just when the hawk is waiting for the pigeon to land. The hawk is more maneuverable, the main thing in the race is who maneuvers better.
@@caiicahst7291 I rarely saw hawks taking pigeons at height all these years (witnessed hundreds if not thousands of attacks), and the few ones they got were either very young, sick or not fit pigeons. I lost a lot more to falcons, the higher they go the more chances for the falcon. But the most pigeons I lost all these years were to hawks at ground level. The ugliest losses are when they escape the falcon and the hawk gets them at the ground level...
@@Pigeonmaniacom the hawk warms up at a height, he does not try to hook the victim. His goal is to pursue from a great height. And then, closer to the ground, he begins to act in full force. But the fact that it starts attacking victims at high altitude, in no way inferior to falcons, suggests that pigeons at altitude cannot hide from a hawk. In the same way, he catches jackdaws - the beginning of the attack is very high, and the end is above the tree, and if a jackdaw or a rook hides in a tree, a hawk jumps right along the branches behind it))
Once again the music is gripping and the camera man phenomenal, the pigeons, masters of their craft. Flight school is in session and these wingers are putting on a clinic.
At numerous instances, the singled out pigeons could choose to drop down to loft but they didn't. Hmmmm. They want to pick up the fight with the falcon and know they could win. Amazing 😍
The biggest flock so far, good experience for the young. They have reached the clouds and conquered adversity. They came back home to celebrate success. Cheers! 🍻
Wow...wow...woww...se vede libertatea in porumbei!! Clar unii mai cad la datorie!! Dar nu cad fara lupta!! invincibili!! Succes!! Urmaresc cu sufletul la gura!!
Way back 2019 I used to watch your videos all the time when I first got a pigeon. The background song before when I watched your video was "SHELL-SHOCKED" and one of my favorite videos of yours was LAZ-O. It's just beautiful to watch the loft fly of your birds while there is a background music included on your videos. Fan from the Philippines🇵🇭
The birds I saw landing on the landing board and loft weren't even breathing hard though a couple did look worn out. One white flight did bounce off the landing board but in times of panic we all make mistakes. Kudos to the falcon and your pigeons!
Good footage mate and you are pretty handy with the camera, this year I've had 3 clock birds taken by the falcon and another Federation winner treed preventing her from winning a major accolade .. I'm over them . I bothe admire them AND hate them with a passion ...
Foarte frumos ! Puternici porumbeii și deștepți ! Fain video ! Ai grijă de acești frumoși campionii nu-i lăsa să îi agațe falcon pelegrino! Un salut din Spania Colmenar Viejo Madrid!🤠♥️🇪🇸🇲🇩
Yet another awesome video Andrei. The pigeons done well this time. Some of them are heavy in the moult too. Is there anywhere online where we get to see your club of federations results. You, your family and pigeons stay safe.
Hi Graham. There's not much to show for results. Anyway :) This is one of the better races, and a very hard one (notice the speed under 600). clasamente.ucpr.ro/index.php?id_sezon_s=30&id_judet_s=&id_club_s=267&id_protocol_s=&tip_clasament=club&type=clasament&meniu=clasamente&page=clasament_index.php&id_concurs_s=3364 My first pigeon is bred from 2 of the winter pigeons.
13:46 - 14:10 I liked the actions of this white-winged (if I'm not mistaken, female). She has an easy flight, and she was ready for a sudden attack of a hawk by taking the right stance, unlike the rest of the pigeons, who turned their backs in search of the entrance to the dovecote. Such pigeons have every chance to start on time in case of a sudden attack by a hawk, the main thing is that it would not be a sparrowhawk
Not sure if it is a female, those are very young late breds. Indeed, the other one going for the entrance is bigger and less agile, and was already hurt by the falcon in the past. The white-winged did the right thing there because she wasn't tired and comes from a more calm family, but when the hawk hides in the trees behind and attacks several times in a row and it gets late in the evening... I kinda prefer the pigeons that go for the entrance because the others risk to stay up in the night which is risky.
Homer, on the loft the hawk could see them, I think this is the main reason, they feel more protected on the landing board. This is why I replaced the sputniks, they had a hard time landing on them in high speed or more birds at once. There are metal sheets on the loft.
Hi there, amazing video. it could be also a young female falcon, not experienced enough, when you mentioned that surprisingly she didn't catch anything although there were many inexperienced birds in the flock. I can recognise it here, when old female falcon hunts, it is usually lethal as she comes much from above (usually super speed ambush fall from clouds and has one, max. 3 attempts) the pigeons and when she hits usually a bird (I see the attack itself rarely, but I would guess she can have some 70% success rate), after her attack the pigeon is either gone or hurt. And I can immediately recognise in Autumn, when a young falcon is attacking, it looks similarly like on this video. Btw, have you got a similar experience which I have here, that falcon preferably hunts on red -coloured pigeons? I used to have some colony of the red birds in the loft, and after falcons appeared in my area (close to Prague, Czechia, eco-activists started to put artificial nesting spots on industrial chimneys and falcons started to multiply themselves very much in recent years - in 20km surroundings there are 3 such falcon nests in my area), eventually I have no red birds on the loft and on purpose I've got rid of all red breeding pairs, as none of their descendants managed to survive till their adultness.
Nice comment. I am not sure about the age of the falcons, but they do the same attacks in mid winter and sometimes the male feeds the female and then he goes to catch another pigeon. Sometimes the females comes crying when he missed the prey and they do a "fight-play". I doubt they feed the chicks so late in mid winter. I have at least two local falcon pairs and they fight each other which sometimes saves my pigeons. I witnessed the max speed diving from the clouds you mention, but they do it very rarely, I don't know why but I am happy it is like this. They usually do it in dark days. I look at the flock flying, I close my eyes for a second and then the falcon is carrying a pigeon. It is perplexing. They only did this twice these years. They tried again on a sunny day but missed, I just saw the flock "exploding" and then the falcon went between them like a meteorite. I don't see a preference for reds and I do have reds surviving the entire season, it just depends on genetics, fitness and health. I have a red pied female that survived 3 winter seasons already, you can see it in previous videos. I just think it is harder to find good red racing pigeons because most people like them for their color and usually when you select racers for beauty vs performance, you lose the performance.
A lot of unnecessary moves and losing attacks, he can starve to death like that. By the way, no matter how much they write about the high speed of diving up to 300 km / h. A peregrine falcon chasing pigeons never demonstrates such speed. Which once again destroys the myth of his power. There is a predator that has demonstrated a diving speed of at least 200 km/h or more, this is Hieraaetus pennatus. Which is now massively conquering Northern Eurasia. Thanks for the video, like!
I think that diving with record speed is a bit different, it couldn't do it here where it was chasing the pigeon closely, mostly in a horizontal line. It needs to be very high in the sky and far away from the pigeons so that he can gain that max speed in a very long vertical dive. I only witnessed that 2-3 times all these years, I don't know why they don't do it more often or if that was another falcon. And I am glad they don't do that often! :)) I assumed it had that record speed because it left me speechless: I was watching the flock flying, no falcon visible anywhere, they were calm, and in a blink of an eye, when I opened my eyes the falcon was already carrying a pigeon. It was perplexing. I couldn't believe my eyes. There were two such successful cases and once it missed, I just saw the flock "explode" 1-2 seconds before the impact, and then the falcon just went through the middle of the flock with insane speed. I think the bigger the flock and with more experienced birds, the more chances to see him early even in extreme speed diving.
@@Pigeonmaniacom Yes, these are rare maneuvers. They are rare not because they are difficult, but because they do not bring success. Pigeons have a huge field of view, and it is difficult to approach them unnoticed, even at high speed. This trump card of the falcon was highly appreciated by the BBC and other scientific channels, but it turned out to be a lie. I began to see more often the huge diving speed of "Hieraaetus pennatus", he does not know how to chase the victim like a hawk or a falcon, all his hopes for a successful capture of the victim are just a high-speed dive. It's a pity that I didn't manage to capture these eagle swoops, such moments are very difficult to shoot on camera.
@@Pigeonmaniacom Yes, the claim that predators use the sun as a shelter is just nonsense. Pigeons perfectly see the silhouettes of a predator right next to the sun
@@Dimarik73rus I googled Hieraaetus pennatus and it looks like it is the "hawk" I saw a few times here but just migrating, it looks like it's white from below with a bit of dark at the edge of the wings.
Please select 4K quality or you are wasting your time with this one. I started this season with the biggest winter team ever. Not the best thing but... ah well, will see how they behave as a flock. For now this was one of the most serious marathon chases of the falcon and it broke the 96 pigeons flock into pieces. I love pigeons dropping from the sky like an avalanche, this is why I like arrivals from short distance races especially when I have a big racing team. Now thanks to the falcon and this big winter team I managed to see the crazy arrivals in off-season. Fortunately it missed this time which I couldn't believe, since I have a lot of inexperienced young birds (~70) and only 20 experienced old birds from the previous winter seasons. Of course they were lucky because the hawks weren't around, otherwise they would have caught some of the birds dropping from the sky, especially the ones hiding in the trees.
U mnie dwa ataki sokoła w kilka dni.Pierwszy bez strat a za drugim niestety strata młodej samiczki. Sokół to uparty i silny drapierznik.Pozdrawiam z RP.
@@longinlewandowski7019 Hello from Romania. Yes, the falcon is very powerful and fit, it can chase the pigeons for minutes but I prefer it instead of hawks. I think the hawks are more dangerous because they attack at ground level. I would have lost some pigeons this time after they escaped the falcon, if the hawks were in the area.
@@Pigeonmaniacom The grouse hawk surpasses the peregrine falcon at any heights. And not just when the hawk is waiting for the pigeon to land. The hawk is more maneuverable, the main thing in the race is who maneuvers better.
@@caiicahst7291 I rarely saw hawks taking pigeons at height all these years (witnessed hundreds if not thousands of attacks), and the few ones they got were either very young, sick or not fit pigeons. I lost a lot more to falcons, the higher they go the more chances for the falcon. But the most pigeons I lost all these years were to hawks at ground level. The ugliest losses are when they escape the falcon and the hawk gets them at the ground level...
@@Pigeonmaniacom the hawk warms up at a height, he does not try to hook the victim. His goal is to pursue from a great height. And then, closer to the ground, he begins to act in full force. But the fact that it starts attacking victims at high altitude, in no way inferior to falcons, suggests that pigeons at altitude cannot hide from a hawk. In the same way, he catches jackdaws - the beginning of the attack is very high, and the end is above the tree, and if a jackdaw or a rook hides in a tree, a hawk jumps right along the branches behind it))
It's impossible to understand how skilled pigeons really are at flying until you see it out maneuver a falcon!
Once again the music is gripping and the camera man phenomenal, the pigeons, masters of their craft. Flight school is in session and these wingers are putting on a clinic.
Oh, thank you!
My heart is automatically in my mouth when I see you have posted a new film. Hope you have got all the babies home okay, and had a good racing season.
At numerous instances, the singled out pigeons could choose to drop down to loft but they didn't. Hmmmm. They want to pick up the fight with the falcon and know they could win. Amazing 😍
The best pigeon content and production on here..kudos! Great loft btw.
Oh, thank you.
The biggest flock so far, good experience for the young. They have reached the clouds and conquered adversity.
They came back home to celebrate success.
Cheers! 🍻
Wow...wow...woww...se vede libertatea in porumbei!! Clar unii mai cad la datorie!! Dar nu cad fara lupta!! invincibili!! Succes!! Urmaresc cu sufletul la gura!!
Way back 2019 I used to watch your videos all the time when I first got a pigeon. The background song before when I watched your video was "SHELL-SHOCKED" and one of my favorite videos of yours was LAZ-O. It's just beautiful to watch the loft fly of your birds while there is a background music included on your videos.
Fan from the Philippines🇵🇭
Excellent, perfect!Your pigeons is over the Falcon
The birds I saw landing on the landing board and loft weren't even breathing hard though a couple did look worn out. One white flight did bounce off the landing board but in times of panic we all make mistakes. Kudos to the falcon and your pigeons!
Good observation. Thank you, Brad.
great video buddy realy pleased that there were no losses
Great video ur piegons seems strong and with no fear
Good footage mate and you are pretty handy with the camera, this year I've had 3 clock birds taken by the falcon and another Federation winner treed preventing her from winning a major accolade .. I'm over them . I bothe admire them AND hate them with a passion ...
Thank you Mark. I admire the falcon and hate the hawk. Looks like you have more problems with the falcon?
Foarte frumos ! Puternici porumbeii și deștepți ! Fain video ! Ai grijă de acești frumoși campionii nu-i lăsa să îi agațe falcon pelegrino! Un salut din Spania Colmenar Viejo Madrid!🤠♥️🇪🇸🇲🇩
Multumesc, Alin.
Yet another awesome video Andrei. The pigeons done well this time. Some of them are heavy in the moult too. Is there anywhere online where we get to see your club of federations results. You, your family and pigeons stay safe.
Hi Graham. There's not much to show for results. Anyway :) This is one of the better races, and a very hard one (notice the speed under 600). clasamente.ucpr.ro/index.php?id_sezon_s=30&id_judet_s=&id_club_s=267&id_protocol_s=&tip_clasament=club&type=clasament&meniu=clasamente&page=clasament_index.php&id_concurs_s=3364 My first pigeon is bred from 2 of the winter pigeons.
How's it going? Did you lock the pigeons for the winter?
Incredible the maneuvers of the pigeon
Falcon is very disturb for you but your pigeons is Legend
Excellent video 😊 !!!! I enjoy watching it
And love your loft !!! Is the best
@@leonardobandiera5323 Thank you Leonardo. I don't know, the loft is far from the professional lofts.
13:46 - 14:10 I liked the actions of this white-winged (if I'm not mistaken, female). She has an easy flight, and she was ready for a sudden attack of a hawk by taking the right stance, unlike the rest of the pigeons, who turned their backs in search of the entrance to the dovecote. Such pigeons have every chance to start on time in case of a sudden attack by a hawk, the main thing is that it would not be a sparrowhawk
Not sure if it is a female, those are very young late breds. Indeed, the other one going for the entrance is bigger and less agile, and was already hurt by the falcon in the past. The white-winged did the right thing there because she wasn't tired and comes from a more calm family, but when the hawk hides in the trees behind and attacks several times in a row and it gets late in the evening... I kinda prefer the pigeons that go for the entrance because the others risk to stay up in the night which is risky.
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I love pegieons my friend and your pegieons are Rocket 🚀
Nice and Beauty Camera Work but insert the pigeon foot cam and most interesting video shoot but good job cameraman
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Mister Hawk went to bed hungry. Pigeons 1 Hawk nil. whooooo hooooooo
It's fascinating that the birds land on the landing board rather than the roof of the loft. Is the loft roof vinyl?
Homer, on the loft the hawk could see them, I think this is the main reason, they feel more protected on the landing board. This is why I replaced the sputniks, they had a hard time landing on them in high speed or more birds at once. There are metal sheets on the loft.
Love this video. Tell me your location I want to see ambassador 😂
Romania
Super video,ce linii de porumbei dețineți?
High flyers racing pigeons i love them very very much 😍😍😍😍❤❤
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Hi there, amazing video. it could be also a young female falcon, not experienced enough, when you mentioned that surprisingly she didn't catch anything although there were many inexperienced birds in the flock. I can recognise it here, when old female falcon hunts, it is usually lethal as she comes much from above (usually super speed ambush fall from clouds and has one, max. 3 attempts) the pigeons and when she hits usually a bird (I see the attack itself rarely, but I would guess she can have some 70% success rate), after her attack the pigeon is either gone or hurt. And I can immediately recognise in Autumn, when a young falcon is attacking, it looks similarly like on this video.
Btw, have you got a similar experience which I have here, that falcon preferably hunts on red -coloured pigeons? I used to have some colony of the red birds in the loft, and after falcons appeared in my area (close to Prague, Czechia, eco-activists started to put artificial nesting spots on industrial chimneys and falcons started to multiply themselves very much in recent years - in 20km surroundings there are 3 such falcon nests in my area), eventually I have no red birds on the loft and on purpose I've got rid of all red breeding pairs, as none of their descendants managed to survive till their adultness.
Nice comment. I am not sure about the age of the falcons, but they do the same attacks in mid winter and sometimes the male feeds the female and then he goes to catch another pigeon. Sometimes the females comes crying when he missed the prey and they do a "fight-play". I doubt they feed the chicks so late in mid winter. I have at least two local falcon pairs and they fight each other which sometimes saves my pigeons. I witnessed the max speed diving from the clouds you mention, but they do it very rarely, I don't know why but I am happy it is like this. They usually do it in dark days. I look at the flock flying, I close my eyes for a second and then the falcon is carrying a pigeon. It is perplexing. They only did this twice these years. They tried again on a sunny day but missed, I just saw the flock "exploding" and then the falcon went between them like a meteorite.
I don't see a preference for reds and I do have reds surviving the entire season, it just depends on genetics, fitness and health. I have a red pied female that survived 3 winter seasons already, you can see it in previous videos. I just think it is harder to find good red racing pigeons because most people like them for their color and usually when you select racers for beauty vs performance, you lose the performance.
Foarte frumos🎉
1st view and already sending my pre watched love
Voilà pourquoi le pigeon voyageur est le maître du ciel 👑
Wat strean of pigeons do you race. am living in Jamaica
No famous strains, mostly my own strain selected for years. The main pigeon behind it is the Ambassador, he's in a few videos on the channel.
Do u let ur breeding pairs out?
Not the main breeders, but I also breed from some of the mature birds in this winter team.
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WOW BRO NICE
Let s hope the sparrow hawk get the attention of the peregrine😊
Where is the hawk. Missing her
The hawk just took one pigeon 2 days ago. Not really missing the hawk...
So, was the pigeon she bought was an experienced pigeon or was she young inexperienced?
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A lot of unnecessary moves and losing attacks, he can starve to death like that. By the way, no matter how much they write about the high speed of diving up to 300 km / h. A peregrine falcon chasing pigeons never demonstrates such speed. Which once again destroys the myth of his power. There is a predator that has demonstrated a diving speed of at least 200 km/h or more, this is Hieraaetus pennatus. Which is now massively conquering Northern Eurasia. Thanks for the video, like!
I think that diving with record speed is a bit different, it couldn't do it here where it was chasing the pigeon closely, mostly in a horizontal line. It needs to be very high in the sky and far away from the pigeons so that he can gain that max speed in a very long vertical dive. I only witnessed that 2-3 times all these years, I don't know why they don't do it more often or if that was another falcon. And I am glad they don't do that often! :)) I assumed it had that record speed because it left me speechless: I was watching the flock flying, no falcon visible anywhere, they were calm, and in a blink of an eye, when I opened my eyes the falcon was already carrying a pigeon. It was perplexing. I couldn't believe my eyes. There were two such successful cases and once it missed, I just saw the flock "explode" 1-2 seconds before the impact, and then the falcon just went through the middle of the flock with insane speed. I think the bigger the flock and with more experienced birds, the more chances to see him early even in extreme speed diving.
Btw, the two successful cases were both in dark days with sun covered by clouds and lower visibility.
@@Pigeonmaniacom Yes, these are rare maneuvers. They are rare not because they are difficult, but because they do not bring success. Pigeons have a huge field of view, and it is difficult to approach them unnoticed, even at high speed. This trump card of the falcon was highly appreciated by the BBC and other scientific channels, but it turned out to be a lie. I began to see more often the huge diving speed of "Hieraaetus pennatus", he does not know how to chase the victim like a hawk or a falcon, all his hopes for a successful capture of the victim are just a high-speed dive. It's a pity that I didn't manage to capture these eagle swoops, such moments are very difficult to shoot on camera.
@@Pigeonmaniacom Yes, the claim that predators use the sun as a shelter is just nonsense. Pigeons perfectly see the silhouettes of a predator right next to the sun
@@Dimarik73rus I googled Hieraaetus pennatus and it looks like it is the "hawk" I saw a few times here but just migrating, it looks like it's white from below with a bit of dark at the edge of the wings.
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