anser2 Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 One of the farms I shoot over has recently invested in a number of hawk kites. However they do not seem to have any effect on the wood pigeons. Twice last week I saw flocks of pigeons feeding within 20 yards of the hawk kites and none in other parts of the field. I would guess the main problem is we mainly have just buzzards in my area that do not seem to worry the pigeons . If we had pergrines or goshawks it might be another story. What effect do hawk kites have in your area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdubya Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 (edited) One of the farms I shoot over has recently invested in a number of hawk kites. However they do not seem to have any effect on the wood pigeons. Twice last week I saw flocks of pigeons feeding within 20 yards of the hawk kites and none in other parts of the field. I would guess the main problem is we mainly have just buzzards in my area that do not seem to worry the pigeons . If we had pergrines or goshawks it might be another story. What effect do hawk kites have in your area? farm I shoot has about 4 of these things in his fields ( he told me to just lift them off the spike and lay them down when I wanted to shoot) big things they are, the fibre glass poles are nigh on 20ft high and the "hawk" is about 5 ft across, told him he was wasting his time as less birds came across the field I decided to shoot with the things down than when we had watched the field whilst the "hawks were up" they look good but I think the only thing they fib is us. these are the boys http://www.scarem.co.uk/bird-scaring-kites/scarem-hawk-kite KW Edited February 14, 2012 by kdubya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitnmiss Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 The best one's i have found are the portek terror kites, i've put them up before and pigeons 2 fields over have got up and left the area, the most effective way to use them is to move them every so often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomaddy525 Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 the farmer on one or my permissions has put one in the middle of my favourite rape field and i haven seen a pigeon since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampire Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 One of the farms i shoot has hawke type kites,the fields they fly on have no pigeons within 150 yrds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrpip Posted February 14, 2012 Report Share Posted February 14, 2012 I pass a field that has always been hammered in the past when in with rape, no shooting allowed on this land. this year hes got the coloured spinning globes on & 2 kites but they dont look like hawks there red & yellow coloured. have only seen a few pigeon sat in trees when it was freezing cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE MEK Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 the farmer i shoot for has four of these scare'em kites one field that had one sited only kept the pigeons off for four or five days then they where feeding on the rape a 100 yds behind it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitnmiss Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 I pass a field that has always been hammered in the past when in with rape, no shooting allowed on this land. this year hes got the coloured spinning globes on & 2 kites but they dont look like hawks there red & yellow coloured. have only seen a few pigeon sat in trees when it was freezing cold They are the portek one's. The kites are great but i don't rate the globe's really, I've seen them on a field of greens and pigeons have been feeding underneath them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitnmiss Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 the farmer i shoot for has four of these scare'em kites one field that had one sited only kept the pigeons off for four or five days then they where feeding on the rape a 100 yds behind it Just proves what i said before, you need to move them every so often! They will be 100yrds today, 80yrds tomorrow, 60yrds the day after, and before you know it they're not doing any good at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 I shoot on several farms with these 'scarers' in the fields. They do not work at all- most of the rape has hundreds or thousands of pigeons on. At over £100 a piece they are a big waste of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyboots Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 i shot a barley field last year with 1 of these kites in it , the crows/pigeons stayed away from the bit the kite was in but where landing in a flattend patch 100 yards further down the field think i shot 20 odd woodies and 60 odd crows that day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfarmergiles Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 I have tried ALL of the Hawk Bird Scaring kites on the market and the VERY BEST by far is the Scarem brand. They are the strongest pole by far and the kites work even in the highest winds. The instructions say to take down the kite in strong winds but who has the time! BUY SCAREM that's what I say and John Galloway is so knowledgeable about pigeons and about his product - a real gentleman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 The hawk kites seemed to be the thing a few years ago in my area, but they didn't seem to have much effect and I haven't seen them around for quite a while. Pigeons will feed on fields with string bangers, gas guns, white fertilizer bags on sticks, scarecrows (even the ones with the stick pointing into the air) , disco balls on poles and just about every other gadget you can think of. The best thing to keep pigeons off the crops is a bloke in a hide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapespecialist Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 Jackite (not Jack Pike) do a pigeon type bird, just ordered one to see if its any good as a decoy, cant be too different from my Hyperflappers, which on a good day are really effective......most of the days they keep them away though!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootnfish Posted January 1, 2013 Report Share Posted January 1, 2013 They seem to work for a few days but they soon get used to them. One place i shoot had them but some aholes kept nicking them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solz Posted January 2, 2013 Report Share Posted January 2, 2013 we put one on out rape, havent seen any pigeons on there (although there has not been many about at all) so i can't comment on how good they realy are just yet. we got ours for £80 from countrywide. also as said befor it is best to move them around every so often ATB solz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted January 2, 2013 Report Share Posted January 2, 2013 Just proves what i said before, you need to move them every so often! They will be 100yrds today, 80yrds tomorrow, 60yrds the day after, and before you know it they're not doing any good at all! Same goes for any pigeon scaring stuff be it bangers kites or spinning globes. Move them regularly and they will help a great deal. One thing we have found that works very well is white carrier bags tied to canes. You need a lot of them but they 100% definitely work very well. It is what we use in our cabbage fields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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