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John Birds funeral will take place on the 16th Feb at Seafield Crematorium at 1pm.

John was such an asset to the Pigeon Racing in Scotland. John was a very clever person no matter what the problem John dealt with it. John was a The SHU councillor and his wisdom, common sense and knowledge will be missed and difficult to replace and such a nice human being. He will be missed by by so many people. Douglas Bald

The funeral of Colin Bain is to take place on Monday the 30th October at Mortonhall at 12 noon.

Sad to report Colin Bain passed away today after a long illness. Colin was a top pigeon fancier in Club, Almond Valley Fed and the SNFC. Colin had a great knowledge on all aspects of Racing Pigeons and will be remembered and missed by the members of Balerno HS. a very sad day.

Ricky Simpson and the chap Powers also helped us get our young birds back after a bad training toss from Heriot.

This was a common thing when i kept the horseman pigeons in Lochend in the the late 1950 and1960s. You took the birds in at night to stop them being stolen. Sometimes they would break into your house only to steal the birds. They would climb up the outside drainpipe and come in the window nothing would deter them when they knew you had some good birds.

First download the update. Next go into Unikon Manager them into members list. Go to members name and delete his clock. Then reassign the clock to the member and this solves the problem.

On behalf of the staff at the SHU and the officials of the SHU we would like to pass our condolences to Walters friends and family. On a personal note Walter and I sat together for more years than I care to remember and having a "cuppa" before the meetings. Walter had a good knowledge of many subjects and we spoke on the phone many times over the years and it was only yesterday while in the loft that Walter came into my thoughts. Walter as others have said will be really missed. Dougie Bald

The S.H.U. has approximately 1,800 Unikon Chips which are for sale along with the 2022 Life Chip Rings which are now in the S.H.U. office. All for the bargain price of £1.10 for the complete ring. (That is the life ring and the Unikon ETS chip). Phone the S.H.U. office which re-opens on Wednesday 5th January.

John what you state is fact. Bobby had the ability to understand weather conditions and give the Pentland members great races long before the many Weather sites we have today. Bobby was also a great help to many other Race Controllers over the years; a nice person who will be missed by many people including me.

Another young bird in tonight GB 21 V 51371. I have tried to phone the number on the clip ring but no answer.

Young Red Cheq Hen in good condition.

Tommy someone is contacting me tomorrow as another fancier has arrange for a courier to pickup a pigeon in Edinburgh for a fancier in Carlisle and the courier will pickup the pigeons from the one address. Thank you for your offer.

I have a stray come in today and was wondering if anyone going down near Carlisle that way could help to get it back to its owner. I live near Edinburgh and would meet up with anyone who could help. Thank you.

I believe they have had to move to another lib site

Who got stuck on the grass?

All information regarding race points as supplied by the Federations has been given to DEFRA/ APHA by the SHU more than 10 days ago.

The SHU has received a statement from Chris Bain at gov. scotland stating That Low Risk Pigeon Racing is permitted from noon 21 April.

I do not know where you receive your information from. The SHU received 5 systems from Jim Savage not 16.The sensors are now costing the SHU over £100 each.

Tommy, You are right about the log book. Some fanciers who collect the systems appear to then just pass the system to someone else and before you know it no one takes responsibility when the system is damaged or they hold on to the system until we try to track it down. The log book would make the first person responsible.

I have yet to receive the damaged system. An amount of system sensors are broken, battery connections and batteries that have gone missing ,in fact all the small batteries are now missing. I have just repaired a set of battery connections yesterday. The SHU will have to purchase more sensors as we have no spare sensors in stock due to the amount that have been damaged. Please if you collect and use a system look after it .

Tommy you where right in proposing reducing the fees. I voted for your proposal at the council meeting and at the A G M. I certainly do not think they should be increased. The SHU Office Bearers have agreed that it will be status quo for all prices until the council have a proper meeting.

The i PIGEON does not accept Unikon rings. I took Unikon rings to the iPIGEON stand at SHU show and they did not work. They may work now. I also took rings I had sent from a company in Taiwan which were really cheap and they did not work either. Unikon, when the SHU first approved their system stated that it accepted any other rings. They later put a block on the system without approval which appears to stop us using cheaper rings. We objected to them but no other Union backed us.

Totally agree with you. The SHU asked the RPRA to lend support when they where taking their campaign to Westminster to meet MPs and the RPRA did nothing. The SHU had printed a report from a leading ornithologist which was given to MPs at meetings in Westminster. The RPRA if I remember did not contribute any money when asked. It was the Scottish Fanciers who raised the money. The SHU also took their strong case to Holyrood but as you know after the catch and release trial Holyrood withdrew its support.

Definite increase in both. Two male Stoats in loft killed one bird before the problem was solved. Sparrow-hawks are killing a pigeon a day that my wife feeds then the buzzards are attacking the Sparrow-hawks and taking the carcass. Has anyone else have this problem.