we've had some pretty nice weather this week it's been nice and sunny although it has been
really really windy but i thought i'd take the opportunity to let the birds have a bit
of a fly they're coming on a lot better now since i've dropped their feed and got rid
of the breed and wean so um the garden was in full bloom and the sun was shining so i
thought i'd spend a bit of time outside and test the slow motion on one of my new cameras
and the birds are looking really really good so there's a little bit of footage of them
flying and kitting together and i think we've got 33 flying at one point which is pretty
good
so good looking racing pigeons
the next day i headed over to manton in worksop for the northern classic pigeon race basketing
and fortunately the weather was pretty rubbish so
how many birds you've got so far i'm not sure
just be careful and concentrate when you're handling pigeons
how many we got there
is
well that's annoying i'm back at newark uh to watch the some liberations because there's
quite a few feds up here and clubs up here and i thought i'd get a uh quick sausage and
egg mcmuffin before i um before i came to watch the liberation and annoyingly they took
forever about eight minutes to serve me one so i've just missed the first liberation i've
got a little bit of it just as i've arrived so six o'clock was obviously the first one
okay
right
um
just finished watching the liberations for the scottish uh clubs and feds i think i'm
not sure whether they're feds or they're just clubs but um half full most of those wagons
i think because the downside about filming here at newark is there's some really nice
locations but with it being on a lorry park it just doesn't look that good on the footage
so you've got the uh beauty of the bird i've got a new camera so i've been filming in slow
motion and the birds look great as they fly but the background's all you know industrial
and lorries and stuff which is a bit of a i mean the birds don't care and people that
are liberating and racing don't care but as far as aesthetics go doesn't look great so
the one that knew a showground looked pretty good and even grantham wasn't too bad but
i think there's another couple of london clubs that are liberated today but they look like
they're still asleep so i'm not hanging around any longer um because i think they're waiting
for the up north combine to fly past so they're going to be a few hours before they get ready
so um they're in a nicer part there's trees all behind that so that'd look alright but
as far as the aesthetics go i could do a shallower depth of field which should look good um but
it's really difficult trying to get pigeons in focus when they're flying like that so
it's a nice sunny day so hopefully everybody in scotland get their birds back and some
good times too so on thursday there was some basketing some members of the club and yorkshire
nottinghamshire and derbyshire um combine sent birds to guernsey for that race i think
they're about to liberate it's about nine o'clock so i think they're in for a nine o'clock
liberation it's probably five or six hour flights it's enough north easterly wind um
but charlie's also sent to newbury as with the club and the not south road federation
so i'm gonna head over to his now uh because he's expecting the birds back any time after
ten so we're gonna see those come in and then hopefully we'll catch some of the guernsey
birds come as well but depending on what time they go
these are ours looking good it's a big size difference look at that one there look he's
a giant in the back compared to this one at the front obviously this is one of the younger
ones but
you guys are looking better aren't you
you