so it's 10 past eight and we still haven't liberated yet as you can see it's really quite
cloudy it was forecast to be blue skies meant to be really hot today but so far i've been up
since six and um i woke up to uh fog and the smell of smoke i think there's been some fires
fires burning uh somewhere nearby um but yeah no phone call so far as to
the birds going up was hoping for a we were hoping for an early liberation maybe like 6
30 or something like that so we could get them here um but it's quite cool still um
not hot at all but really the fact that now um probably lots of feds aren't able to liberate
they're all going to want to go at the same time and uh so this is going to push us closer into the
hottest part of the day it's only 50 51 miles for us so they should be here in an hour
uh from when they're liberated so i'm hoping that this clears up because
i've only sent 12.
so we're all set up ready for the birds it's now 20 past eight
got the um pad ets system set up got the camera set up and i've got all the other birds
in the baskets just that we didn't send just so that they don't come out because i like to
have a bob wire open just for the first one or two birds um i don't really have
if i had a bigger loft i'd be able to put them in a different section but um kid's swimming pool
out because it's been quite hot and um yeah we're just waiting now for the for the sky to clear it's
the sun is trying to burn through you can just see it and uh yeah we've only sent 12 just because
basically the um the birds haven't been in i've been away for um all week so i haven't really
seen how they've been performing i know my dad didn't get to train them because they couldn't
get them in the basket so they've only had one toss when i got back on thursday um
and also the weather being so hot um or meant to be so hot i don't really know what um
what to expect so i don't have an old bird team for next year this is going to be my old
team for next year i can't afford to lose loads of birds so um yeah just sent 12 so we're involved
um but we've we've kept the rest or i've kept the rest back so um yeah i think it's probably
the most sensible thing to do is to just send some we never know who might do all right it's a north
wind um but potentially northeast by the time it will be northeast actually by the time these get
gone so um not great wind for us but still um this experience for the birds experience for me
and uh yeah hopefully they'll go all right so i'm just waiting for the call now but
all right nearly ten to nine we've got some blue sky sun's coming through
however there is a lot of smoke in the air from the fields that were burning last night so
i don't know how that's going to fare with the with the birds
i can't look up at the sun without sneezing right so i just had a phone call off uh johnny
richardson and uh they where they were liberated ten minutes ago 845 into a light northeast which
is not the best win for us anything with east in it isn't great but um it's just a bad experience
today starting to burn through um apparently in allerton it's it has burnt through um but yeah
we'll keep our eyes out now charlie's gonna come down and watch because he didn't send uh today
because if i train them if i touch them why don't you get something for me
do a good job now don't you go
i'm just going to take one of these
stay still
here
come on
so
there we go
that's white tip when he asks charlie thought
so uh that was another good race today we've missing one bird still
zoolander i think he's been named by uh the wife and kids uh that's the one that i caught all the
others i got into the basket just by opening the basket and they sort of wandered in and then i
went back in and got zoolander and generally i found that if i pick them up if i catch them
basket them up for training they're more reluctant to come in uh when they get here
i don't know if there's any sense in that or not but anyway he uh that one hasn't turned up yet so
anyway it's time to go and do the clocks so i'm gonna go do the clocks see how we did no idea we
were slower than last week that's for sure so not expecting anything um any any real result
um yeah i'm gonna head over there now get the race result and then uh we'll come back
and hopefully zoolander will be here uh when we return time to get the results
good news zoolander is back that's the last pigeon from yesterday's race um
been out all night all day and all night it's about 10 o'clock in the morning hello buddy
i bet you're tired
hello we've gotten some water left some water out for him i'm not sure if he came back
give him a bit of food
there you go hungry aren't you get some of that down here well it looks okay
it was a bit peckish
i mean it was 34 degrees yesterday and most of them were all of them uh 11.
10 of them came within seven minutes and then the last one came
um like within 15 minutes of the first so they're all pretty quick
uh within each other anyway came last in the club but they all got back other than this one just you
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