morning everyone well it's uh early in the morning oh early-ish i let the birds out half past seven
this morning because uh the weather was really nice i was um at home it's kid's sports day today
so i'm gonna watch that later on um so i thought i'd let the birds out earlier and it seems to be
working they've been gone for half an hour i've seen them twice they came back with another 50
or so of somebody else's birds so they've clashed with somebody else's that's obviously on a loft
fly um and yeah they're out of sight i've got a few here these two have just been out for a bit
and then there's some more that are still in there i've taken out the one that's all fluffed up and
that's walking around on the floor i've kept that one separate because it wasn't looking right still
and also one of the fancy pigeons that was looking a little bit uh fluffed up so they're in
the garage in their crates um but yeah you can see the weather's really really nice today um
yeah my thinking was basically that i need the birds to know where we are early in the
morning because most of the liberations are early in the morning and so they need to know
what the sky looks like i guess earlier because i usually have been flying them
uh in the afternoon in the evening um or midday but never really in the morning
once or twice uh and i read somewhere that it's probably a good idea to get them flying early so
sleep in my eyes um but yeah so that's where we uh we are they've been gone for
well over over half an hour now uh and i did see them in the distance over there somewhere uh for a
little while but this is pretty much what we want so they're off the antibiotics i've been given the
multivitamins uh they're on breeding weed because i've got some left and um deputies uh that seems
to be working quite well the the runny drop-ins that i did get i think when i was reading up last
night is you'll get green droppings when they don't have as much food which is what we had so
i was worried a little bit about that but actually i think i didn't need to be um the one that was
fluffed up if you can see this it was sat on here for a long time yesterday and they're green
but there is still some white uranus i think they're called which is like a dried urine
um and and so i'm not 100 sure what's on what's what's going on with that bird but anyway i
figured i'd just keep it separate because i'm not sure if it's going to make it or not
uh and then the ones that aren't flying as far these ones here and the ones that are currently in
the loft they're younger and i think they're the ones that that's what's been holding them in uh
the older ones so i opened it up this morning they all flew out except for these younger ones so um
yeah and then the other update is uh there was a meeting called last night uh with the south road
federation because there's just not many birds being sent i think i looked at the weekend and
there was 296 birds sent across five clubs which is just like i think it's 70 or 80 pence a bird um
and that went all the way down to the south coast so you know it's it's uh it's not gonna be able to
don't want to keep affording that those sorts of birdies so i'm not sure why the birds have
dropped off whether people have had losses or just don't want to send because of the bad weather but
um yeah it's a little bit a little bit worrying but we'll see what the outcome is from that i
didn't go because i'd work but i'll hopefully get an update and see what what happened from there
well here they are back from ranging
they've been gone 40 minutes i think that's good and they've managed to break off from
that other bunch which is good they've done a a tour of the area no doubt uh so yeah that's
that's a bit of a success i think they're flying well they're looking well and um
brilliant that's what we want to see
so this one's just landed on the loft and then come on to my roof uh and it's got a red ring on
which i think it is this year's young bird but it landed on the loft with two of the others
um that i thought i'd got them all back but i hadn't uh earlier on and this one's come back with
them landed on the loft and then flew onto the roof but it doesn't have a phone number on it i
can just look through the binoculars and it hasn't got a phone number on so wondering if it's either
somebody else's but it was really quite tame and it landed with mine straight onto the roof
just didn't come in um and i'm wondering if it's one of the ones i lost earlier on in the year so
we'll see if we can get it in and have a look at that ring number uh otherwise i'll just leave it
out i'm not going to try coaxing i'm just going to watch see if it does it by itself
oh we've got fledglings everywhere there's a little
sparrow here look
well my sparrow was waiting for me when i got back from work by the gate so i can't let rufus
out and then there was another one round the back this morning which i think was a starling
let's have a look around the back of the extension she's still there i don't know it
looks like that one's moved on but um yeah first thing this morning before i let the birds out saw
a sparrowhawk just flying up upper drive with the fledgling in its talons and then uh currents i saw
a chick round the back of the house which i think was a starling and then i've just
pulled up from work and found that sparrow styling there so there's loads and loads of fledglings
around which is great for the birds of prey and i guess it's good for our pigeons really because in
the short term anyway because uh they're a much harder target than all this these easy pickings
uh unfortunately for us it just means there's gonna be lots of well-fed
uh sparrow hawks knocking around so um yeah there we go lovely day for it and