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Thank you. I hope they get faster and deeper next season.

@@MAlofts Best of luck my brother hope to see them with the rest of our fellow subscribers 💯👍🏾

@gabeglenn1164 a few of my breeders developed like so. Yes, most do become great birds. The heart to kit has to be there.

@MAlofts do you ever find some of those hard workers that have the heart to kit as young birds give up on kitting after being held over?

@gabeglenn1164 always a chance for birds to fall apart next season. Let it be a mad flipper or not. Most mad flippers turn out to have normal frequency as they age.

My papaw is Carl Hardesty. I saw where you made a video about his rollers. Very interesting

@StephenHardesty-th5cx do you have rollers too? That video was produced and sold by the NBRC back in the days. I just uploaded it for all to enjoy. Classic!

@jorgepena1218 thanks. The birds are still young and have a year or two to go before they get to that point where we all want.

I usually fly them around 7 pm daily. There are times that I kicked them out around 8 pm, like the footage here. In this video, both would apply. I flew them right before sunset and it was cloudy.

Thanks. They should get a lot deeper and faster once they turn 1 years old.

These are mine. I bred out of the best rollers from all over the USA to make my current stock.

@@MAlofts o okay u sell them too ?

@@happysihaniya4491 can not ship. Local only

@@MAlofts o ok something u don’t ship or state don’t allow?

@@happysihaniya4491 work

They can be decent on those overcast days. Thanks

Not yet but with more air time, hopefully some will be.

No, this is probably the best I can do for video quality wise. It is crazy how smoother looking the videos are when uploading from 1080 to 1080p60.

NC is halfway across the country from me.

@@MAlofts Oh, all this time I thought you were in North Carolina.

@arcee33 maybe one day. As of now, I am still stuck in Minnesota battling 5 foot snow drifts every Winter. Check out this podcast if you haven't. czcams.com/users/liveZcjPnCHowkU?si=OUUoAe00v9ugfQJn

When I can fly, they can put up a good show.

Guess it's better than feeding falcons at the moment. Thanks

Thanks, hopefully some will make the cut and survive. 2 falcons got me for 3 birds this evening.

Some days they are. This day, they decided tumbling was what they wanted to do. A lot of decent rollers in this group when they get up to a good height. When they are flying to low, they turn into tumblers

A lot of fluttering going on, a few of your darker checks/ blacks are balling up! A lot of action, if falcon doesn’t take half ,,good luck 👍

@crappiemikecrappie8211 yeah, just babies doing babies stuff. I swear a few in there are still squeaking

Probably be cooper poop before next year. I fly my birds too much

I only fly tumblers, so they are individual rollers

If you could find some one to ship, they are yours. Haha. Out before the post office opens. Get home right before they close. Yeah, shipping birds will not work. Wish i could. I would love to send you some to try.

They are not rollers yet but hopefully soon. Thanks for watching

Thanks. Just a look at how my ybs develop into the birds folks have been seeing. My birds have a lot of roll, even as ybs the activity can be overwhelming

Yep, they flip every second too. Haha. Got some starting to add depth but that wasn't what I was aiming for...videowise

I have a few trees to. The ones here are cotton wood. They are closer to 100 feet tall. I don't scare my birds so the feel safe landing on my roof. I do get the occasional roller that is scared of it's own shadow. Those birds tend to land in a tree once in a while but the coopers don't play around. They pick those birds up before I can cull them.

@@MAlofts see that's what I'm worried about. They only been flying about 3weeks and thus far the hawk has not been a issue. I have a coopers and a red tail in this area. (Since it's been hot) but the cooper did kill one around feburary.... new bird. Slipped out over my head and before it could land on roof the cooper snatched em..... all of 6sec escape and he was dead. Blue w/Bronze bar baldie I had for 3days.

Wish I had better to film. Thanks for watching. Acouple of decent ones in there. Will see how good they get as old birds next season.

Minnesota

Always gotta to have one knuckle head in the group. Yes sir, Frisbee is the only way over here. Too many BOPs to use a whistle call. I never liked the feed can call. Sounds don't carry far here in the city. Birds can see from hundreds of feet away, so visual feed call is more effective for me

@@MAlofts Do you think a whistle call actually attracts the BOPs? Or... ?

@kerbyjackson88 I don't know if they do or don't. All I know is the quieter the call, the better off I would be at attracting attention.

@@kerbyjackson88 I do want to add that the feed call is usually only used until they get the route down. I rarely call in my old birds. They know that once they land, they need to trap in. I would find it strange if people still called in their old birds.

@MAlofts I'm in the position where I really don't have old birds anymore. I'm down to four 2022 birds out of 135+ courtesy of the Peregrines. But back in the days when I could actually keep them around in large numbers (late 80s/early 90s, I guess), I think I always continued calling just because I'd done so much repetition that it became a habit. Another factor is, for whatever reason, when I first started out, I did not use traps and just called them in and out the door. Needless to say, it tended to necessiate keeping the commands up. A couple of years ago, I had traps put into the current kit loft I'm using, thinking it might help against the Cooper's, but with the Peregrines pushing the Cooper's out, I don't use them and still basically fly the way I started flying 40 some years ago.

I usually breed out of 10 pairs with another 6 pairs of fosters, making 16 total. This year I bred out of 13 pairs and 3 foster pairs

Minnesota. No I don't have any extra birds. Thanks for asking

It literally is. I do try to fly them every day. If they rest too long, they can get real dangerous. I had some go 100 plus feet if locked down too long

Should be fun once I move some rolling ybs in. All the ones that were afraid of the roll, culled themselves last year. The ones left can be flown daily.

Wish I had extra birds. BOPs are pretty bad here. If you guys are ever in the area, drop by to see them live. The footage gets diluted pretty bad from the original files. It was a longer video but that day they just wanted to show off