Blue Tooner

sending around 10-12, 340 miles region G.

Anyone know what lot 52 went for, G.P. Taylor donated the bird and it was an absolute cracker.

35 from 35 from Brechin plus 3 home from Consett race 2 weeks ago (2 yesterday and 1 today)

I have told her that in no uncertain terms. I cannae even have a drink now as I will be sneaking over to the loft during the evening to check for arrivals,, problem is, if I get a good one do I go to the clock checking in ma kilt

Thinking along the same lines, I'm gonna miss the race due to my sisters wedding but my electronic friend will be keeping his eyes peeled

Here's hoping Derek, the bird that won today returned on Tuesday from the Consett disaster two weeks ago, the 2nd bird was 3rd fed from Ripon, last week (same way bred as 6411 ) and the 3rd pigeon won the club from Consett and was well up in the fed, was 6th club, 10th fed Ripon last week and it totally refuses to fly around the loft, doing around 5 mins at a time, he never flies with the batch and was always home before the others during training it's a funny old game this doo racing

Brechin 3 young bird result

Bird belongs to D & C McDougall, Peterhead 01779 475594

Got a phonecall from Steven the other night. He has one my absentees from Consett, he is going to hold on to it a bit longer as it is flown down. A true gentleman who is putting in a lot of effort to get our lost birds home and he deserves a big pat on the back from us all, well done Steven

Thanks for the comments lads, your tenners are in the post

I have approx. 25 latebreds for sale. From the race team 25.00pounds each From the stock loft 40.00pounds each Most are Ritchie & Whyte of Fraserburgh bloodlines which have won from 60 - 632 miles for us. We have won over 60x1st club since 2002 and numerous 1stx feds in strong competition also winning the fed combined average twice and fed young bird average twice and have won every average trophy in our club several times. We Have 22 Scottish National Flying Club diplomas to date. I also have for sale 1 summer bred son of our Silver Award winner "Richmond Maverick" who was also winner of Joe Murphy Sporting Challenge 2009 offers over 70 pounds please. Mavericks positions in S.N.F.C are - 4th North Section, 204th open Eastbourne 475 miles, 2007. 12th North section, 60th open Alencon 632 miles, 2008. 2nd North section Alencon, 2009 and 8th North Section Reims, 620miles, 2010. Only quality youngsters will be sent out and pedigrees will be included with youngbirds from stock loft, brief breeding details provided with youngsters from race team. All birds plus carriage (buyer to arrange) cheers Stuart Maskame (Maskame & Mackie)

Not a problem Alex, I enjoyed your company, it's great sitting waiting on race birds and having a good old blether about all things pigeon related. Good luck with the birds just another 30 to go so I can reduce my feed bill, these latebreds are eating me out of house and home

1 home this morning, 19/21 well pleased

never saw your "Top Dog" post when I posted

well done George,, he's been going great guns

18/21 from Ripon 234 miles, last one at 8.21pm

What time were the winners in your club Walter?

I can vouch for that as he collected one of my Reims birds which had a broken wing, from a non-fancier and held on to it until our transporter was at Consett last week. Guys like Tommy are very hard to find, well done ;)

Their still working back Walter, I just got one at 8.20 came oot the sky like a helicopter, still 3 to come out of 21

Most members reporting decent returns with just the odd 1 or 2 missing.

21 to Ripon 230 miles

Think possibly the fed winner aswell well done, cracking doo.

I see a thread by Hjatland that has an Aberdeen young bird in Shetland, would be interesting to know if this bird was at Alnwick yesterday? If so it would be more evidence that when our fed and aberdeen are down in the north east of england the youngsters can quite easily misjudge their line and end up going past the North east of Scotland coast and away into the North sea. Food for thought there I think.

Yesterdays result, hope this comes out okayResult Consett youngbird.HTM

20/42 from Consett, last one at 7.30pm last night. The Bermuda triangle strikes again. Our fed has tried every racepoint in those areas, Ridsdale, Whitley Bay, Alnwick, Hexham and without fail we get slaughtered there with the youngbirds. Don't think clashing was an issue for our fed yesterday, we went at 9.00a.m and I think the Berwick pigeons were all away by 7.15 (correct me if I'm wrong) as I posted on another thread last week it's the geography of the area, for some reason it's difficult for inexperienced birds to navigate. As for a solution :unsure: I don't know how to get around it. Out of all the bad youngbird races from the above racepoints in the last ten years, this one has been the worst for losses for me personally, possibly the birds took the widest part of the Forth and the west in the wind pushed them further onto the sea than they realised and they went past the North east corner here and into the North sea. My early birds came out of the North east to me, straight off the sea