well its our last race of the season, i,m hopeing not to be making dinner :Very Funny: but most of all hopeing to get them all home for next year :yes:

Keep us posted on liberation and arrivals please Sue

well i'm lib at 10am and not seen a feather me and pete sent 18 only 4 birds back out of the clubs so far

Been a very slow day here too Sue and Pete.
East Anglian Fed libbed at 10.00 165 miles from Salisbury early arrivals I know of are about 3.30pm,
and Norfolk and Suffolk fed also libbed at 10.00 92 miles from Tilbury and my son isn't in until 12.23
Sky has been very hazy all day, no cloud and very little wind.

Keep your chin up, they will come through

ive just got a bird in its from south wales

Amar wrote:ive just got a bird in its from south wales

whos and were amar

i dnt nw chris it had a fne number on it 01633

newport

ahh whats the owners name thomas

pm the no amar i might know them????

well i clocked 1 pete clocked 2 nearly an hour between them and no more, retuns in club are bad 4/10 2/10 8/15 2/8 1/8 2/10
hopfully work in tomorrow its been hazey here too all day bob

well done on clocking anyway ??this year has been a disaster for our sport thank f its over

thanks chris, what a disaster for the last race kept 26 birds right through the race program all raced and bang on the last race well look on the bright side i clocked my champ nom bird and returns bad every club so might have a chance and i pooled it

Very well done to clock in with such low returns. Hopefully you'll get the whole team back in the next few days. Be proud of yourself and your birds for taking it on.

i am pleased but at the same time gutted for the birds that are still out there and theres quite alot so im hearing

sam gardner caerwent great flyer last week sent birds over channel not seen one of um he cant beleave it but thats this year for you f up alround perhaps next year will be spot on but well done at least you did it and got some hope you score well

Any more this morning Sue? I hope so Thumbs up

so far 2 of petes and 1 of mine

Any more back Sue fingers crossed

no none bob :sulk:

:sulk: that's a sickener. Seems there were thousands of birds adrift all over the country yesterday. Probably due to birds getting up above the haze and going miles past or not getting away from the race points. It wasn't just birds over the water as there were bad returns on inland races up and down the country as well

hopefully taken in or resting and will work back

Have you got any more home now Sue fingers crossed

2 came yesturday bob so me and pete got 8 /18 pete 5 me 3 still hoping for more as 37781 hasn,t come back yet

Hope you both get more back hun. Was it Falaise they went to? as thats a bad race point as the birds only get 40 to 50 miles before they hit the water and many stop when they hit it.
I never got 37773 back, feckin hawks

it was lessay bob so many birds didnt make it on the day the only concellation is, it wasn't just our birds it was everyone who suffered losses

DOGEON wrote:it was lessay bob so many birds didnt make it on the day the only concellation is, it wasn't just our birds it was everyone who suffered losses

I would say from looking on the map that Lessay is probably a worse liberation site than Falaise, as it is only 5 miles west, 15 miles East and 25 miles North to the Channel, so if there was sea mist the poor youngsters had nowhere to go. The channel forcast for last Saturday for the channel was hazy. Draw your own conclusions. I would say the vast majority of birds probably flew up and down the French coast all day trying to find a way across. :thumbs down: Not good :Not a chance:

Sorry you have experienced such a race but have to say welcome to an ever growing club! Pigeon racing has in the opinions of many people, with far greater experience of the game than me, just gone through the toughest year ever known! Our club (strongest in our Fed) has not had birds to send to the last 4 races due to heavy losses and this is just one of many clubs up and down the country, so you have done well to have as many birds there as you have! All we can all do is hope this is a freek year and next year is a great improvement on this one.

yes the racing is terribly hard for some, it must be the amount of hawks scattering them, as the latter races, they birds had the Sky's to themself so no clashes just hungry peregrines