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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3428763, member: 97383&quot;]John, Your points are well taken &amp; I&#039;m in your camp as to what to choose. I&#039;ve been a bird fancier all my life &amp; that&#039;s what led me to make this silly comparison <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Lets face it, Armando is a handsome pigeon &amp; valuable commodity, but a very fragile creature, as you point out. Armando was greatly over valued as PlanoSteve pointed out. You could only keep &amp; race Armando safely in certain locations of the world. I had to chuckle reading your comment about peregrine falcons <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Where I live in upstate NY we have many different birds of prey, including peregrine falcons that breed in downtown Rochester <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! That leads me to an interesting story I must share. Years ago when we had an unusually brutal winter &amp; many starlings would take refuge in a row of hedges near my garage <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Several times a week I noticed the bloody remains of starlings near the base of the hedges <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> &amp; thought an alley cat was snacking there <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, see photos below. However, one morning while peeking out of my bedroom window, I noticed a peregrine falcon with a starling in his grip plucking the feathers of the starling <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I rushed for my camera &amp; when I opened my side door the falcon took off with the remains of the starling in his talons. I managed to get a photo of the falcon in flight <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]910440[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]910441[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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