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sent 35 , had 25 in first hour and 30 before went down club and still 30 up to now so doesn't look like outs working in and as Kirky says just as bad today as it was yesterday weather wise

Just training for me , guess will breed a few sprinters next year

cheers really enjoyed the channel racing this year , I was in club and fed positions every channel race roll on next year lol i hate ybs lol

A life cut short because of drugs , she was very talented and a shame really , she could of given up the drugs at anytime but obviously she choose not to , shame she choose drugs rather than life , but same as yourself be no sympathy from me she choose her path , I feel only sorry for the ones she left behind

R.I.P Amy Winehouse , guess she wont be going to rehab , i said no , no , no

Well Done Jimmy :emoticon-0137-clapping: :emoticon-0137-clapping:

should of been sat in my garden great batch of NEHU went up they were flying low skimming roof tops at 9.40 , great big batch of north roader up high 10.26 and my birds were just dropping , had loads of birds flying over here even had a NEHU yb on roof

starting to deteriorate here could rain any time

well done Lee :emoticon-0137-clapping: :emoticon-0137-clapping:

http://www.siegelpigeons.com/news/news-06NatWinPt1.html read George Bolle

http://www.duiven.net/interpalomas/index.htm

lucky you hope you have a safe journey and a great holiday

I got quite a good reply from the GM , just need to read pages 6 and 7 in this weeks BHW so when you've finished kirky can i have yours lol :emoticon-0136-giggle: :emoticon-0136-giggle:

updated with fed positions

well I've actually taken the time to address the new General manager of the R.P.R.A and asked him a few questions Message to Stewart Wardrop : Firstly i would like to congratulate you on your new role as General Manager of the R.P.R.A . As a member of this union i would like to know what the union is currently doing to bring birds of prey ( bop ) to the attention of the government ???? what strategies are in place to over turn the protection of bop that was put in place and not over turned or reviewed since the making of this law , and is it not time that the unions came together to fight bop in parliament and perhaps instead of giving a big hand out to the charities after Blackpool wouldn't this money be better employing someone like Chris Packham to champion our cause before the sport can no longer continue . What happened to the confederation of unions ???? , wouldn't our sport be better run as a big business such as fifa do football and have more shared liberations from channel races , this sport really needs to look at it's infrastructure and get with the times were at least 50 years behind the continental fanciers , i look forward to your reply Mark Kettlestring

that is positive you should hear my negative comments :emoticon-0136-giggle: :emoticon-0136-giggle:

think your bang on there , the biggest problem is 1 the unions are fragmented 5 unions in uk and Ireland , 2 no union has done anything positive for its membership regarding bop , i partly blame the way there set up with non fanciers , union means to come together to act as one , it's high time that we did just that, there are too many individual bodies and not one of them leading the way , all they do is take our fees and report birds and register rings and give distances out . But we need more , petitions have done sod all , I've never even heard on news once Racing pigeons have been mentioned in Parliament and the devastation bops are having on our past time , in the last 10 years things have changed drastically for the worse , my biggest fear is we all want something doing , we've tried the legal routes , but I think the politicians are deeply in the pockets of the R.S.P.B , i guess if what we have now resembles a third world without proper infrastructure then we have to start to rebuilding starting with one union for all , put those in power who want to act for the many not the few , invest in proper race plans , buy newer wagons create bigger federations / combines , national racing where clubs join rather than individuals , employ someone who's in the public eye as a naturist , send all our wagons down to parliament and bring London to a stand still , then perhaps we might have some credibility and get mentioned in parliament the bop protection law should have been lifted years ago as stated in the big house when they brought the protection out and rightly so after the misuse of DDT insecticides , now the protection needs lifting and investment in rebuilding habitats and planting broadleaf trees and recovering valuable wildlife habitat is needed , along with removal of urban bops and bops that are injured should be put to sleep as have no natural fear of man , rant over :emoticon-0179-headbang: :emoticon-0179-headbang:

If the R.P.R.A and other unions came together perhaps they could enlist someone like Chris Packham to get our plight in the public arena as he actually knows what he's talking about http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/contact.htm

they've done that and not been checked , have these trees been replanted ????????

Pigeon keeping / racing wont ever get banned as they'd be in European courts over human rights , my birds are my family grown up with them all my life , would love to know how they'd change that besides if had to give up the birds i'd go clay shooting without the clays

saw a good documentary by Chris Packham the other night on bbc2 mainly about over grassing on the moors and the forestry commission / Dutchy Of Cornwall not using native broad leaf trees was quite interesting , although bops are a big part of what's going wrong other bodies are making it worse as well , the list would be farmers grassing on moors destroying habitats , the national forestry commission and the duchy of Cornwall planting not native trees , then the R.S.P.B on top of that .

Quite a few of us not from Scotland , im from Yorkshire it's not quite Scotland yet although think we've had a Scottish summer , and everyone's welcome regardless of where there from :002: :002:

The Fifer is the site owner

hopefully they be first to go or they be funded by the bop lovers brigade

R.I.P. Billy , our thoughts are with your friends and family at this sad time , may he rest in peace