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Makes sense I would most would already train that distance
For them kind of races would you think about a family that’s competed in the really short races they have in Belgium where they race 60-80 miles weekly not the sprint birds we have here that over generations have become pigeons to fit our programme
I take your point Mike. There could be 2,000+ birds from these short races heading down towards the coast into Devon and Cornwall, I am 30 miles North of the coast. So mine would need to take a completely different line from the race point, as would most of our members in our club.
That’s what they would need to do. The bulk of the convoy will be heading in a South Easterly direction. Ours would have to head off in a North East direction. It’s the opposite with the WOESRC. The first 3 races with the 3 counties are section libs with 2 liberations.
Andy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 5:42 pm
That’s what they would need to do. The bulk of the convoy will be heading in a South Easterly direction. Ours would have to head off in a North East direction.
So?
For us fanciers further up the country its not an issue. We pretty much race "on a line"as near as dammit
The further South you go, the goalposts change.
In answer to your question Andy, it wouldn't both me one bit
I'll give you an example
I sell birds for Richard Goodier in Devon. He races his birds along the coast to the likes of Ramsgate and Brighton
The week after he's say in the BICC from Guernsey or the NFC from France
What birds is he sending? Yes the birds that have raced along the coast in a different direction
Pigeons are born with a homing instinct. Any fool can send birds to a race and get them back
Getting them back with the highest velocity - now that's where the craftsmanship lies
MIL wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 7:28 pmRichard Goodier is in the 3 counties Mike, so I’ll be racing against him.Andy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2025 5:42 pm
That’s what they would need to do. The bulk of the convoy will be heading in a South Easterly direction. Ours would have to head off in a North East direction.
So?
For us fanciers further up the country its not an issue. We pretty much race "on a line"as near as dammit
The further South you go, the goalposts change.
In answer to your question Andy, it wouldn't both me one bit
I'll give you an example
I sell birds for Richard Goodier in Devon. He races his birds along the coast to the likes of Ramsgate and Brighton
The week after he's say in the BICC from Guernsey or the NFC from France
What birds is he sending? Yes the birds that have raced along the coast in a different direction
Pigeons are born with a homing instinct. Any fool can send birds to a race and get them back
Getting them back with the highest velocity - now that's where the craftsmanship lies
Having always raced from down South turning pigeons from East to West or West to East then having to turn the South over the channel. Where I am now, 35 miles inland, is the furthest from the coast I have been. In Worthing we were only a half mile from the coast. There we used to fly North and then turned them South for the nationals.
The first season after Brexit we couldn’t race from over the channel. I was just racing with the BICC and the CSCFC. The same birds raced from Guernsey, south, then Penzance, SW, then Berwick, north.