UkPigeonRacing

I stopped mine a couple of weeks ago so missed yesterday’s debacle but it seems the same all over look at the NFC. However it shouldn’t have been a surprise, yesterday’s weather was poor across much of the country with low cloud rain and humid conditions the perfect recipe for bad racing. With the sport under more scrutiny than ever before I do believe the unions should step in and set minimum weather requirements for liberations. Our area yesterday was the perfect example of how it easily goes wrong. Two feds at the same point one libs the other holds, so clearly the weather wasn’t great, result probably from what I’ve seen 75% have nighted out from a short comeback race. I don’t blame the race controllers it’s a tough job and sometimes you’re dammed if you do and you’re dammed if you don’t. However if we had a minimum weather requirement it would make it much simpler. The old adage so often rings true „no sun no fun“ and yesterday there was precious little of it.

Just been having a look on NFC website and the young bird race has only 43 members verified from 194 that entered, and some of them velocities are in the 200ypms.

7.30 this morning load birds went over just above roof height stood and watched them and they split and a few went back the direction they came from the others carried on towards Stafford way

Looked like lots of bad races all across the south of the country!

I saw a good result from Bath libbed around 12:30. But anything further south than that was a disaster!

Murray wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 10:53 am This is an outline of Australia. it's quite a big place.
When a pigeon gets lost, sometimes it can go a long way before it hits the ocean. Sometimes it is a bit difficult to collect a reported pigeon, as it might be a thousand miles away...

The furthest distance I've had a bird reported was in 1994 when I had a bird reported in Sofia, Bulgaria some 1,360 miles away. The bird was lost the year before as a YB from Peterborough 102 miles.