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325 BRITISH BIRDS, TOTAL ENTERIES OVERALL 23695 GOOD LUCK TO ALL THAT ARE TAKING PART .ATB les

106 birds up on what went last year  

Great prestige with this race and would love to try it but 1000 miles maybe a little to far.

Wish everyone well who have sent pigeons.

Looks like we are the only country whos birdage has gone up this year

Country                             2008     2007      2006     2005      2004
BELGIE - BELGIQUE           11.702   12.655   11.864   13.046   12.245
NEDERLAND - PAYS-BAYS    7.041    7.521     6.777     7.489     7.875
DUITSLAND - ALLEMAGNE    2.371    2.449     2.133     2.723     2.604
FRANKRIJK - FRANCE           1.919    2.127     1.732     1.897     1.970
HONGARIJE - HONGRIE                       95                     278  
ENGELAND - ANGLETERRE     325       218                     153        118
POLEN - POLOGNE                229       436        328        131  
LUXEMBURG - LUXEMBOURG   85       111          53         98        101
ROMENIE - ROUMANIE                        41    
MALTA - MALTE                                  37    
SLOWAKIJE - SLOWAQUIE                  26    
TSJECHIE - TCHEQUIE            17      
BULGARIJE - BULGARIE            6    
TOTA(A)L                        23.695  25.716    22.887   25.815    24.913

THANKS again rose ,ATB les

Here are some pictures that pipa have let me use of the Barcelona birds and the transporters you will be able to get all the upto date news on there and hopefully some pictures of the Barcelona liberation

looks great rose

i wish we had some pigeons to go that far

720m is or furthest race    

what breeds will go that far...

cheers jon & maisie

Quoted from cottage lofts

looks great rose

i wish we had some pigeons to go that far

720m is or furthest race    

what breeds will go that far...

cheers jon & maisie

Seen lot of the breeds do it over the years cant say anything really particular plenty of good crosses just need something that is capable of doing the distance and the hours for you

THANKS once again rose i have been trying to picture things in my head ,this is a big help ATB les

Have to say thanks to Nikolaas Gyselbrecht of pipa for letting me use the pictures  Latest on Barcelona race        In normal circumstances, the pigeons will be liberated friday morning and the first arrivals will be normally saturday very early in the morning.

The weather forecast on Friday tells us that the weather in France is pretty good and the wind forecast says that there will be light south and a little east wind.

If it stays like that chance we could get good bird over here

I'am so small for this competition Rose.

Quoted from ionela

I'am so small for this competition Rose.

Nobodys too small for it some of the best performances i seen have been from small lofts over here most not sending more than a couple of birds its just waiting for that right bird that you know could do that sort of race for you and putting the work into them and getting them right to go

talking of small  lofts i got 3 yearlings and 2   5year olds one of which is the one on rout to barcelona ,that is my race team ,the others have gone AWOL trying to see if they got what it takes to fly the distance .and at the moment i got 20 young birds ,dont think you can get mutch smaller that this ATB les.

Quoted from 3385

talking of small  lofts i got 3 yearlings and 2   5year olds one of which is the one on rout to barcelona ,that is my race team ,the others have gone AWOL trying to see if they got what it takes to fly the distance .and at the moment i got 20 young birds ,dont think you can get mutch smaller that this ATB les.

Need the older experienced pigeons for this sort of race there were birds that were older than 5 going   You only need one to win it Les and when i did the marking for it there were plenty just sending the 1 bird

ROSE willf has sent i cant remember if it was 5 or 7 ,i told mine to tag on to his and sprint the final mile ATB les

Good Luck to all those who have sent, hopefully within time i will have a decent team to be able to send to this race.

great pics rose   good luck to all the entrants

Lâcher prévu entre 09.00 et 10.00 hrr

Looks like they are hoping to give a  lib between 9 and 10

There have been 3 pigeons verified up to now.



ES - P Delea, of Rainham clocked 13.54

CS -  Mr Duffield clocked 14.11of Lymington-Tipof

WS – F & J Halstead of Kington Magna clocked 14.26