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know I said we're not in with a chance but I feel like we might be in with a chance exciting um race
has been delayed this weekend from Saturday to Sunday and now to Monday so it's Sunday
now we're going to be racing tomorrow morning which is good and it's all because of the weather
um but it's a pretty good thing in one sense because we shouldn't have any clashing because
I don't know if there are any other clubs racing tomorrow or if there are there'll be very few
and far between so we're going to be sending 12 hens and 12 [ __ ] we lost seven in total
and then one of them came back a couple of days later and then obviously the one that returned
on Saturday yesterday yeah I was gonna call it a day actually and leave it for the rest of the
season because obviously these young birds are my old bird team for next year these are the uh hens
in this little box here I've got another one there but I'm just going to send them in this
because it's only a few minutes away and I need to get going I need to be there in seven minutes
um to get them to get to the clocking station so uh these looking good condition really they I'd
normally bath them on a Sunday and so a few of them are a bit dirty which is not ideal but um
I would um yeah they've had quite a few training tosses I think they've had four training three
training tosses this week and a lot flown every day but this week coming the weather's really bad
um we've got some some thunderstorms every day um starting tomorrow night so this is
the last break in the weather I think uh so we've really got to make the most of it
so I was uh talking before about um this might be our last race because the weather forecast where
we're now we're fifth of September and the the forecast for next weekend looks really bad and
don't think we're going to get a race then it might be postponed again but even going into
Sunday and Monday it doesn't look good at all in theory I've got 27 and if we drop any today then
that's probably me done for the season because I've got to have some old birds or some young
yearlings for next season uh and this this is my yearling team this is their fourth race of
the season so they've all experienced the basket being on the transporter being liberated a fair
few of them have experienced being out for a long period of time and
um you know having to overnight somewhere so if they come good today if we get them all back and
then the forecast is good for next week um then maybe we'll we'll race another one um but there's
I think there's only three or four races left in the calendar and it's with the forecast being so
bad for the week it just limits how much training I can do and if I'm not training them they're just
not fit yeah so it might might well be the last one so it's quite a late one today we start the
virtual liberated at 10 past 11 which is uh unusually late in the day for us but it's a
Monday so it's all a bit unusual really these are the three birds I haven't sent one is the
bird that took a week to come back and it's the ETS ring missing I think that's uh son of Damien
that one of Dave's um so I'm glad we got that back but BTS is gone um then we've got 1985 which was
a full um seven or eight hours late on a training task this week uh and it when it landed it pretty
much collapsed on the um on the landing board so it was obviously really tired and had been flying
all day so I hadn't sent that one and then the other one is the one that we've had um the last
one that had the young bird sickness and it was isolated for so long I'm gonna leave them out of
the Loft because I want the Bob wires open so that when the birds come back they can get in which
I'll show you now right so uh we've got the Bob wires here and what I like to do is just have a
couple of them open so that when the birds land on the landing pad there's no obstacle I want to get
them in as soon as I possibly can we don't want them to be uh nervous about going in especially if
you might lose a place by a couple of seconds I'm not convinced we're going to do particularly well
um today because the birds are in okay shape they've been trained a couple of times this last
week but we're not going to be challenging anybody for the top positions that's for sure the other
birds you could just tell when I was handling them they just they feel so much fitter so
all right so it's half past 12 and um we're expecting the birds to start arriving in about
30 to 40 minutes or something like that so two hours maybe uh it's 98 miles just just under 98
miles I think uh from The Liberation site and it's a south wind there might be a little bit
of East in it but not a huge amount and it's about 15 kilometers an hour I think so I've
got a sun right in my face you know great um but yeah so in about half an hour 40 minutes
something I should hopefully get some birds coming in just playing around with the camera from 1983.
1983 again good girl uh 21 that's not too bad
I didn't even see her come oh Jesus my heart's going right
I was messing about with the camera and uh I miss that
I just just playing around with the camera here and um trying to get the Focus right
to light right and uh she didn't even see a circle I think she just came straight in
oh boy she came first for us out of my pigeon using the last race even
though we were miles off the pace we're about four minutes behind everybody else
but yeah that's pretty good good guy good right see if we get any more in well pleased with that
I didn't see or hear anything normally I'll see a shadow you become accustomed to just looking out
for stuff like that like Shadows or flashes and stuff um and I didn't hear or see anything but I
could have been preoccupied with the camera but anyway uh I hope that's a decent time you know
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come on
I've got one at the end will come in person we're going into the [ __ ] section
there's a batch of four one two three four over there heading over here's another one oh yeah
coming good today
it might not be the fastest but they're certainly coming together
come on come on girls
all right so that's 10 back plus the here we go
oh that looks so cool
it looks so cool when they took their wings in and they come just dive straight in rather
than circling and they just come straight in which is what they seem to be doing
today it looks so much better well it's uh it's brilliant brilliant seeing them took
their wings in and coming straight in no circling around just just coming straight
in and uh and not looking half as nervous so they're obviously getting used to it but
yeah even these later ones the ones that are 10 minutes behind they're not uh I don't care
if they're 10 minutes behind it just looks so good when they when they're coming in brilliant
all right
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arrived and we've now got 19. um in the last one's just just rocked up uh and we're still
so we're still five missing Ryan not Brian is not in there so Archie's not gonna be happy because
he didn't want me to send it uh because of what happened with mush mush not turning up last week
um so yeah we're missing Ryan not Brian Zoolander um so far uh we're gonna go and do the clocks in
about an hour so I'll go pick the kids up from school and then I will be um and then I'll be
going over to do the clock so I think our first bird might come somewhere on the on the sheet but
the rest of them will be way down there but never know might mean we have a chance of winning it
well you see now this is why you um find yourself constantly looking out the window
after a race because it's one day later and it's six o'clock and who's arrived oh it looks like
you've been have you been hawked you look a bit of a mess don't you what's happened there then
coming in get a drink not you
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