and i've just looked on facebook earlier and somebody's liberated or tossed their birds
today um at a similar place uh eight o'clock this morning and they saw um their birds get hit by two
peregrines um so they they've got all big problems and we're meant to be training there again
i've got to go and pick up charlie's birds now i'm going to take them for another toss
and toss them all together and hopefully this will encourage them to break apart
when they're on a race they need to be able to break away from the group and this is this is
what we're trying to do with them does he do this right by the door every single time just
i'll grab the gate
i've got i've got mine out you see it's all right over there it's just a bit of a cloud now
do
ah
doing now is splitting their feed up into two halves i'm keeping the [ __ ] at 30 grams
because they seem to be doing quite well they eat it all they don't mess about and they come
straight home the hens are messing about a little bit so we've cut them down to 25 grams because i
feel like they're they've got a little bit more food or they've got more food than they need
so i'm putting half out now and i have to do this because if the uh if the cops get back before me
which they should do and the hens uh if the cop gets back before me they need to see feed in
here or food in here so that they instantly get a reward they come straight home and they're they're
rewarded having haven't boot but i don't want to give it all of them sorry i don't want to give it
all because if i do then any of them that arrive a little bit late won't get fed would you believe it
this is not good trading weather
but apparently it's meant to clear up in an
hour so i'll head over anyway and make a decision when i get there
okay so we are now 26 miles north of the pigeon loft we've come north of doncaster because
we haven't had good back-to-back training tosses yet with these birds seems to be that the [ __ ]
will beat me home one day and then the next day they'll go gallivanting around the countryside
for an hour or two yesterday for example we let the hens go and they got back after 40-50 minutes
and then just flew around in circles for 10 or 15 minutes so what i'm wondering is they just got
too much fly so i've cut their food down a little bit and now we're taking them a little bit further
and hopefully this will work we'll get them back nice and quick and uh because there's a race in
what three days and uh you know not convinced it's gonna they're gonna be ready but you know we're
trying to train every single day now and uh let's see how they get on gonna send the cox first again
and they've got some food back at the loft so they should get and uh get straight in to eat that so
we'll see how they uh how they go new place anyway so i'm on the lookout for any falcons
or or uh hawks but looks okay it's a little bit cloudy plenty of blue sky on the way back
but really we're kind of restricted with the or limited with the weather at the moment so
i can see the sun i can see some blue sky over there so let's see how we go
so
right so i think they've cleared quite well there i can't see them i've got the binoculars
they went straight in the right direction zig-zagged a little bit and then out of sight
so hopefully uh they're getting the hang of this now and they want to get gone so
we'll give it 10 minutes then we'll let the hens go i don't like oh yeah no nobody's home yet
nothing back yet it's a shame i would have hoped to be back by now 44 minutes for the cox
34 for the hens okay so i think i've just seen mushmush land is the oldest [ __ ]
what's that uh so that's taken him 50 minutes to do 26 miles from the new spot so hello mushmush
you right buddy he's not going down for food
you're on your own here they are look ah
we collided looks like with mixed up hens and [ __ ] there
oh there's somebody else's no there's somebody else's look so they've mixed
in with somebody else's as they um the red one in there whatever you call that mealy
there's one in
top one's my house
right so what's happened there is they've clashed with another group and they've all
come here and that other group's now moved on so i'm not sure who's that is because i don't
think it's um charlie's because he ain't got any mealies come on buddy you're next door four five
six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirty fourteen fifteen so we're a few missing still
right so exactly the same thing look we've got hours peeling off
have another batch up there
someone's gone back to join with him which i think is ours
come on then can you get oh you're a [ __ ] okay
one of the [ __ ] i was missing earlier
i'm going to know you all right so there's still half a dozen missing
i think so we've got two [ __ ] one of them just arrived so one [ __ ] and five hens so six yeah
six birds left uh to come and they're probably in that group i just didn't want to come down yet