Mine sometimes perch in a tree and they are just out of my reach so I have to stand on something and lift them out, if you leave it until the dark then it's difficult as they cannot see. I am supprised how still they are in the tree, any preditor can have them for supper, my daughter lost her Harriet to a fox 2 day's ago, she was a pet more than anything and my daughter and her children are very upset so the neighbour is giving her some more chickens to replace the one she lost, her pigs are now in the butchers heaven so she is letting the ground settle a bit. I will probably sample some pig when I visit, our last X Mas present was a cockeral, we arrived late christmas eve and my partner, Steve had to help pluck and gut it...nice (no time to wrap it up in X Mas paper.....