ForestForever74

Have some respect mate, people still waiting on a lot of great pigeons to return home and already you are knocking them by saying they are all dead due to hawks. I don't disagree with your point but there is a time and place for discussion and now Is not one of them.

well done everyone who timed. Well done J & J Hood, :-)

All the best for the morning everyone.

Good John. I wish I knew where they get to at times.

Got our d/ch cock this morning, well flown out but very pleased to see him :-)

I know whats wrong with it! :-)

well done to everyone on the result :-) Still cant believe we didn't get our d/ch cock, it was his kind of race, hes dead! Nice to see E & K and T.Richardson well up on the result :-) Well Done W.Horne on 2nd Sextion E, excellent result.

Still 0/2. Work to do here but if anything it will drive us forward and in the back of my mind I know I will lose better pigeons in the future so its a learning curve. Still looking for them though as I don't believe they didn't make it because they were not good enough :-(

All the best to everyone who sent. Hope its a good race with good returns.

ah right. well done all who timed.

Did the Gilmour's not get their clock checked?

well now I know, cheers mate!

You fly into Elgin mate, as far as I am concerned you guys who fly that far north are the bee's knee's.

I agree but your are not giving them enough credit for being smart. If anybody knew what made them come home from such great distances then we would be smart but as it is nobody can answer than question outright with a definitive answer so in my eyes that makes them extremely smart and def smart enough to dodge rain showers they can see from miles away, no problem and they will make it home even if they are not motivated, well bred and have crap management, maybe 2 weeks late but they are still home. Don't decry your racing mentality though :-) :-)

Getting a section prize and being on the open result in our first snfc old bird national will long live in the memory, I seen him coming from miles away and what a buzz. Yes I agree long term we are all about over the water as well but I will never forget our first snfc race from Newbury and I couldn't give a hoot that its ONLY an inland national.

Its not rained like that here for nearly 2 months and we get a lot of rain here. Yes if they were smart enough they would have flown round it but if they were anywhere near home in that downpour they could have been sitting on a roof local for at least an hour and that would have taken them up to dark o'clock! who knows! my throat is really sore now though! :-)

At 9pm tonight in Cumbernauld the rain was lashing down, no doo's would have made it through that and its showers all over the route home all day, good decision me thinks. Monday race? cough! cough! I have a bit of a sore throat I certainly hope it doesn't get any worse before Monday :-)

Good question? is it to do with populated pigeon areas?

Whats wrong with Bonnybridge club for SNFC marking, its bigger than Bo'ness where we marked?

J & C Gilmour from Cumbernauld timed at 10.30pm on night of race and got another early doors on Saturday. Well done John and Colin :-)

Any idea of the section E birdage for Maidstone? We sent two hopefuls but through at Bo'ness.

How many doo's have been affected by this? Surely they must withdraw the affected birds from the race? ? When can we expect a decision on whats happeneing and how will that be relayed to members?

I hope the race and its winners are not blighted by this strange event.

So its a good idea but nobody is supporting it? for the reasons you mention?

excellent! how many miles was it to Paul?