Feeding Red Kites Pt2
Discussion
ferg said:
I've spent the last couple of days ironing out the last few technical issues with my latest plan. Can't say too much 'til the Patent Office get back to me, but let's just say....Iron Impregnated Chicken Feed and a powerful electro-magnet. 
and the best bit is, if the kites eat the iron impregnated chicken and dont want to hang around for a photoshoot, simply wave your oversized acme magnet at them and watch them get drawn to the prefered location.
In fact, after the first feed, you wont need the 15ft bird table, just magnetically attract them to the floor, where you can pass the food straight to them.
ferg said:
I've spent the last couple of days ironing out the last few technical issues with my latest plan. Can't say too much 'til the Patent Office get back to me, but let's just say....Iron Impregnated Chicken Feed and a powerful electro-magnet.
I'm looking forward to hearing the latest Ferg....please tell me it can be adapted to somehow make use of the roffle-copter though.
blindswelledrat said:
.. Logistics problem.
At the weekend I set up my Red Kite feeding table.
I borrowed my neighbors ladder and put the top of an old wooden coffee table on top of my 15 ft high hedge baited with choice chicken legs.
For two days there was no action bar the odd crow and magpie pecking at them and then this morning I heard lots of flapping and upon inspection the chicken had been taken.
Now it's time to re-bait I realise I haven't thought this through properly.
I can't borrow the ladder every 2 days and I am a little stuck as to getting the chicken up to the table.
I had initially thought it would be quite easy to throw it up but there are 2 significant drawbacks to this.
Firstly my accuracy at flinging chickens is not quite as good as I assumed it would be thus most will end up in the hedge to rot and smell.
Secondly I realise quite how extraordinary I would look in the local community regularly hurling meatstuff into the air. I can imagine the local youth spraypainting my house with slogans like "chickenboy" or simply "
".
Anyway, any suggestions as to how one might get chicken onto a coffee table perched on a 15foot hedge without a ladder would be gratefully accepted.
I've no doubt there are plenty of you out there that have faced identical problems.
At the weekend I set up my Red Kite feeding table.
I borrowed my neighbors ladder and put the top of an old wooden coffee table on top of my 15 ft high hedge baited with choice chicken legs.
For two days there was no action bar the odd crow and magpie pecking at them and then this morning I heard lots of flapping and upon inspection the chicken had been taken.
Now it's time to re-bait I realise I haven't thought this through properly.
I can't borrow the ladder every 2 days and I am a little stuck as to getting the chicken up to the table.
I had initially thought it would be quite easy to throw it up but there are 2 significant drawbacks to this.
Firstly my accuracy at flinging chickens is not quite as good as I assumed it would be thus most will end up in the hedge to rot and smell.
Secondly I realise quite how extraordinary I would look in the local community regularly hurling meatstuff into the air. I can imagine the local youth spraypainting my house with slogans like "chickenboy" or simply "
". Anyway, any suggestions as to how one might get chicken onto a coffee table perched on a 15foot hedge without a ladder would be gratefully accepted.
I've no doubt there are plenty of you out there that have faced identical problems.
I hear on the radio that whatever solution you found has been overly successful.
and that we are now surrounded by lazy 'fat boy' Kites. Edited by ballon on Wednesday 13th December 08:27
I had a problem with my lounge curtains which are 18ft off the floor. I bought an extending carbonn fibre fishing rod off Ebay for £4+ p&P, screwed a hook in the end and can now draw and open the curtains without the double extension ladder. Doubles up with a feather duster on the end. Now working on how to change the light bulbs.
ello ello ello what's all this then? Feeding Red Kites are we sonny? YOU'RE NICKED KITE FEEDING
It is now illegal to feed kites without a licence. This has come about due to EEC legislation. The food has to be both fit for human consumption and be from a licensed meat handling operation such as a licenced abattoir.
The meat has to be refrigerated during its journey from the abattoir to the red kite feeding premises and when stored. The field on which the food is spread must not be grazed and has to be to be closed to all stock so the grass has to be cut mechanically. Butchers now have to have licences to offer anything not intended for human consumption and, like the feeding station, the licence requirements will be inspected by ministry vets at least 3 times a year.
This is both to protect the kites and the surrounding country as not only can red kites be harmed by indiscriminate feeding but the meat can be carried great distances and with it any maladies that may be contained within.
www.gigrin.co.uk/threats_to_red_kites.html
And besides they're Welsh and eat sheeps
Amazing sight this morning - I was taking Puggit Jnr swimming in a pool in Sonning Common. The building housing the pool has large glass sides, as a lot do. Suddenly got a bit dark, then saw a red kite on it's way down. The thing swooped down about 3m from where I was. I couldn't see what it picked up, as I was in the pool - but an awesome sight of a huge huge bird from an extremely close distance.
OK - I made a bit up, it didn't go dark!
PAGING PIGEON!puggit said:
Been waiting almost a year since we moved in to this house to capture a pic... but finally 
Nice one!
Dunno if you`re interested, but you can post your pics here -
www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.cgi?gallery=gallery12
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