well that was a stressful day uh today was the first day of training them uh so i took
them on a toss you should uh stick around and see what happened a bit calamitous at one stage
um but well you'll see watch the video and uh if you haven't subscribed yet then subscribe
please give it a like and a share the sun's out now and uh there's a bit of blue sky
in the cloud there's a bit of blue sky in the sky i should say um i've given the crates a wash
because i've been using them to hold the birds that haven't been looking too great
but the big news is today is the day that we're going to go for our first training toss
so i'm going to take them three miles up the road if i can get them in
and they've had a bit of a fly out this morning so they've had a bit of a stretch their wings
um i fed them a little bit earlier on this morning but not too much so they should be
thinking now it's time to come home and get some lunch so um yeah let's see how this goes okay
so that didn't go too badly um we've got all but uh 11. we've got a [ __ ] out there and a
couple of the older birds here that don't want to go so uh one two three four five six seven
i need another basket basically i ain't quite got enough room for all of them
twenty-seven
oh here we are um we're just under three miles away uh there's a bit of cloud in
the sky it's a bit of blue as well so it's not perfect but it's been so hot lately that um if
it's if it is just clear blue sky it's just too bloody hot to take them so anyway um yeah
we'd like to say we're just under three miles away um from the loft this is our first toss
so let's see how it goes some of these birds are six months old or more so
uh yeah wish me luck so basically i've got both i've got two crates and i'm going to give them a
bit of um a bit of time to acclimatise to where they are it's the first time that i've been in
the crates the first time they've been out so um we'll leave them for 10 minutes let them get
a look around wait for this grey cloud to pass over and hopefully break up a little bit more
and then i'm planning on letting one go and then i'll maybe watch them see what they do before i
let the others go they should go that way but um first time i imagine a circle they'll probably
go into the forest i'll probably go all over the place but uh yeah nerve-wracking that was my heart
rate 87 beats per minute i imagine it's going to get a fair bit higher than that when i let them go
well i want bigger crates actually i want a bigger crate and i want something on the
bottom of them as well so they're easier to clean out afterwards but this is all i've got for now
oh
they've gone the opposite way as to where they're meant to go they're behind that tree
they should be going over that way there see them just coming over us
let's see what they do
they've got mush mush in there with them which is the oldest bird
and then we've got ryan not brian in this this group here so where have they gone now
all right seven minutes past two i think something like that yeah there you are look
nice and high so they should be able to see whales be from there because it's just over that
hill over a bit of forest there's quite a few good landmarks that they should be able to see as well
so let's see if you can be on that tree i am a little bit nervous about it
um i mean i've been months and months uh we've kept these birds built the loft
and fed them trained them nurse them back to health life flying them
and now look oh gray sky those bits of blue over there so i'm hoping that's enough for them
there you go
go go go
go
no don't go in the van
all right you're coming back with me then
come on oh that was not what meant to happen come on
no you don't want to go anywhere do you well this one's not wanting to go
we have to catch you then aren't we
go on all right we'll probably never see that one again because uh i didn't mean to bring that one
that was a bit of a cock-up
that's the one that hasn't flown much so probably kissed that one
goodbye i didn't see where the others went uh where did they go
it'll be interesting to see if that makes it but the others have
completely disappeared that was flying in the bloody van
well that's i forgot i completely forgot that's my fault because
i um i meant to keep that one separate but i've been messing about that much today with
work trying to get all this organized uh that i accidentally brought a bird that's got very
little chance although it's gone the right way let's see if it does go home but that one's
the one that sounds funny whenever it flies and it um it's always very reluctant to fly
far it's never cleared off so let's see what it does um the others
they mustered i didn't even get to see them damn it okay well right let's get back see if
see if they make it home hey check that out just as i pulled in
the first batch is at the first batch who's there i think it is
you're on your foods already i'm so happy yeah that's the first batch that's in his crew
it's just hard to spit actually
so what i've done is i've put the food in that
side of the loft so that when these guys get here they can go straight in
i've just put a certain amount of it and then i've moved the
ones that didn't fly into this side of the loft
are you a hen well i think that's all of the first lot back um obviously they had a head start on me
they were stay i saw them as i was coming down the road um down into the village they were circling
the loft so i don't know how long they've been here for um but yeah three miles that
took them was 22 minutes past so uh yeah 10 but i don't know how long it took them but anyway they
did it they did it in uh they got back that's the important thing now let's wait for the second lot
blue sky over there now but there's this dark cloud here we've got some blue over there not
perfect conditions i'm sure somebody will comment i know we shouldn't let them go in whether like
that but i think it's um yeah he's made it back which is great so let's see if the others do
me and the guys there we're just just waiting
when the sunshine is really bloody hot
let's see if we can get them in
we've got these move these over now
i just want these to have a good
meal for getting in i haven't done this the best way really
i should have been stood outside really for them to call them in straight away
but i was trying to get the others moved out so really i need to do it in two batches not three
because it's too much of a pain trying to swap them all over but you live and you learn right so
now we've got the first two batches sent i'm gonna send the uh
this next lot it's hot i think we're two missing so we've got one up there that [ __ ]
he's not been anywhere uh and then we've got i think we've got one two three four five six
seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 20 on 22 22 in here um
okay i can't count for sure okay so we've dropped two from the toss one
we know about that was that first one um that well the one that would jump back in the van
that one was unlikely to come back and then another one somehow so we've got 30
have we dropped two 25 35 no we've dropped three one of them was obviously i think is that one
uh and then another two somewhere so it's only well half an hour ago that we let them go so they
got plenty of time to find their way back but all in all i don't think for a first toss that was too
bad definitely some things to to learn there i've got i've just um my dad's going to bring me some
bigger crates so i can put them into two and let them go in two groups i could even let them go in
one group but i was just curious to let him go too hello wife you're right this is the third lot uh i
only got one two three four five six seven eight nine ten so there's ten in here i got the [ __ ]
down from the top of the loft he's been on top of the left all day strutting his stuff and trying to
shake pretty much everything that he can that comes past him so uh i think he needed a bit of
a distraction a lot more blue sky now winds picked up a little bit we've got most of them back from
the first two tossers out of 27 we're missing three um which for the first task i don't think
is too bad it's only been half an hour maybe a little bit more than half so uh what time is it
three o'clock i'm gonna let these go up five past three and then um head back and see if they're uh
see if they get back but i'm expecting to drop a couple more now but hopefully by the end of the
day they'll all make it back let's see yeah let's see how we go um so that's that's the thing there
that's it right they've gone so let's see how they uh there they are right over the sun
oh
i can't look up at the sky without sneezing so there's a couple of older birds in there
that i'm hoping will help by older birds i just mean older young birds
and then the youngest ones are in there as well so it'll be interesting to see if they make it look
at that one at the back that's struggling to keep up isn't it look i can't keep up it's miles behind
right they will let go or they've just gone there they are they beat me back and we got
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten one two three four five six seven eight nine no
there's nine there might the other one might have gone in but i think it was quite a long way back
i'm not sure which one that was um but well you'll see watch the video yeah so that's funny um just
as i was saying that you can see the bird in the background i think that's the one that was lagging
behind the others uh just arrived so it was a few minutes behind okay so quick update we're
uh three missing from 37 that we tossed for the first toss um korenza my wife said that she left
the house at 11 minutes passed and they were all just flying around she sent me the video of that
so it took them three minutes to get three miles which is pretty good for their first ever toss
uh that was that last bunch um but yeah we're not uh not too bad so hopefully the other three will
rock up one of them i'm not convinced will the one that flew into the van because i shouldn't
have sent that one anyway yeah that was that went pretty well so we're gonna go again on sunday
when uh my dad's gonna take them and i'm gonna try and get them in the loft i'm gonna be here
to try and get them in the loft a lot quicker so as soon as they arrive straight through the uh
through the lookout hello buddy another one's come back look what time is it half past four
hello which one are you then think about that so we're only two missing now i'm not
sure which one this is i'll try and get its ring number to scared it off i've got a lot loft up
because i wanted to see if any of them turned up but yeah this one will come in i'm sure good news
there are only two missing so i've just been in and checked again and it looks
like we've only got one missing which i think is the one that flew into the van
that was my own stupid fault um but it looks as if everybody else is here so we're back up to
uh just the one missing you never know it might turn up so i'll keep an eye out it's only uh
quarter six so there's still time yet but i'm not gonna hold my breath how funny is that literally
just said i don't think it's gonna come back quarter six look who's just showed up just watched
him fly in i'm just uh i'm currently editing the video uh as we speak i've just almost finished it
and um here we are look this is the guy that flew into the van is uh still half molting on around
his neck so or she so that's why she's not so not been so good but there you go get yourself in
yeah here we are full house all of them back all of them sent
for the first toss and all of them come back so that's great well happy with that