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A much better day here but still blustery winds and showers , maybe one or two may home today for some guys.

Got one I was looking for at 9am like a drowned rat . No sign of hawk attack , but will handle him later and give him the once over .

Aye it is no many flying through here tonight ,in fact hardly any birds in the sky .apart from the odd gull.

Their still working ,I just got a yearling hen at 20.30 .straight into its nest poor wee bu@@er .

Just glad to be competing again Steven , last year was a waste of time , today my birds were coming brill then stopped dead and only 6 since about 1 pm .

Wtf happened the day? I'm 20/29 first race of the season and quite a few,s first ever race .

Just in with one of my own from otterburn , SU 14. W. 1178. Any takers ?

Took birds a toss Thursday , around 30 miles , got held up in traffic as usual (Kingston bridge) ,took me 1 1/4 hrs to get back ,went out to loft and thought good they are home , until I looked for a 2 yr old chew cock ,wasn't there then others ,6 in total , about 15 mins I seen a yearling chew hen coming with one right behind her ,aye right , it was fin Percy bass a , the wee hen was scared shi tless , then another 20 mins there was the chew cock wing trailing .,yes Percy had a go at him secondaries out and the usual talon marks ,got another two that night and two awol . Can't see this sport of ours sustaining this ,getting worse year on year come on RSPB get yer act the gither.

Seen my first one just the other day , was in Majorca Monday to Wednesday seen plenty of swifts ,thought to myself are they staying here or are they just stopping off before carrying on North ,maybe even up to Scotland . Oh and loads of small birds ,not like here still hardly any about .

Congrats to you and your good lady Brian ,ps that's the doo,s on the back burner now lol.

Hope to get down tonight.

John the forecasts I was getting was Dunbar was to clear by 2 pm ,so yes we could/would have got a race ,that's why I took the decision to go ,I can bet my life some were sniggering saying he,s made a can,t of it ,how wrong they were :emoticon-0127-lipssealed:

I've got to agree with Peter here ,well on the basket training , I've said since I took my race controllers job on that if there's a chance of a race we go end of , only and only when there doesn't look like any chance I put it back 24 hrs , years ago when I started in y,b racing you had at least one hold over ( never done them any harm at all) as yearlings same again as two same again ,so before they went across the water they prob had 5/6 two nights in baskets eating and drinking , at least the stress of it they prob only had 100 odd mile to get home ,now a days I would be their very first time being fed and watered at a race point and with the stress etc they now have 500/600 miles to get home . This is my honest opinion why a lot don't get home from the big races ,some can handle it some can't.

Spoke to cally there he's only one to come from 14 sent ,so yes seems a good race ,well Malcolm M . And the best in the business Dr evil.look alike .

Just going by the forecasts I was getting ,all we're saying it to clear by early pm , ps I'm only as good as my last race ,next week the hang mans noose might be out lol. And to clear something up its MULLAN not Mullen . I've been called Miller ,Milne Milen,Mullen,mullin,Mullins, and some I can't post on here over the years . But it's def MULLAN .but cheers anyway lads

Jim Ohara of Alanton has them and still doing well at the nationals .

What fed you on about rab ? I was at our fed sale last year and don't remember you having a bird in ????

Michael I sent you a pm , better to carry on m8 and take erskine bridge cut off ,so much easier to find ,you can see it from the bridge .

Get well soon Charlie .all the best mate.

Not seen any here yet ,also not seen any wee birds either ,apart from starlings blackbirds the odd robin ,wren and house sparrow and I do mean the ODD ONE . Sad that the RSPB blame everything but the real problem .

At the moment the very same or just about the same Michael ,in a few weeks when it's light very early I'm up at 5 am and birds are out then morning and night .

Well done big guy , I thought you couldn't beat yourself out of an accumulator.

Yes that's right, his name is in the homing world but there's no contact details for him . It's ok I've got his mobile number fir future reference .

Has any one have the race controllers number please ?it says in BHW it's Norrie marsden .????

Jim was buried today ,I was working and couldn't get away for the funeral , rest in peace jim .