David Swain

Pigeons never cease to surprise me with some of the things they do. We recently weaned some third round youngsters and one of the first to be put into that section (almost certainly a cock) has started to feed any of the others who are too lazy to feed themselves! Bearing in mind he is only a week or so older than the rest I find this very unusual and can't recall it happening before. Anyone else had a similar experience ?

Any idea what kind of race it was overall ? Here in South Dorset it was a bit of a stinker. Only three of the nine clocks in Weydor Specialist Club (Weymouth and Dorchester area top flyers) were returned. Jim Peters, Tony Swain and Reg Churchill each timed two with the first between 6.30 and 7pm. Won't be too many working through this morning as it's absolutely pouring down.

Dorchester (Dorset) is sunny, blue sky, some thin high cloud, hardly any wind and good visibility.