Turk

agree they look the part.very smart looking pigeons

mick hibbert of derby as some beautiful rapido busschaerts.,

twenty years ago it was constant fly aways that fanciers suffered from with young birds,most top fanciers i used to read would put this down to over crowding illness in the flock ,systems move on darkness systems birds constantly medicated kept in the dark etc too many ill birds been sent .are these say darkness birds suffering from light blindness memory loss ,when fanciers fed there birds on the basics shall we say corn before the exploitation of the professional pigeon fancier came to the front with fantastic marketing tools of fancy corns that make our birds fly like rockets but cannot find there way home ,

petron

a loft me dad bought the school kids to use.and they love it

reminds me of last weekend out for the day in the car with the wife driving along a country road a rabbit run into the road ,bang the wife hit it the kids started crying ,wife pulled car over ,kids crying wife gets a can of spray from glove compartment sprays rabbit ,after a minute ,rabbit stands up walks off turns and waves to kids .walks ten yards turns and waves again all the way across the field oh my god how did you do that i said easy the wife said hare restorer with permanent wave sorry

TODAY THE BIRDS. TOMORROW...? It isn't just the chemical threat that birds have got to deal with, they are being squeezed from all sides. Fishermen want a cull of Cormorants, the shooting fraternity want all birds of prey culled to save their precious Grouse, and Pigeon fanciers want a cull of Peregrines to save their birds. Need I go on ? I could as I have not touched on Egg Collectors and those people calling for the heads of Crows and Magpies. At the moment, the position of public enemy number one seems to be tied between Cormorants and Magpies. On the subject of racing pigeons, is it the Peregrine Falcon that is totally to blame for them not going home? You can see ringed Pigeons among their less salubrious relatives in town centres, amongst feeding parties and on sea cliffs. I can just imagine a flock flying over Bempton Cliffs and on seeing the females on the rocks below some of them letting out a shout of "look at the Plumage on that" and then diving down to join them. After all isn't that where Feral and therefore racing Pigeons originated in the first place. Someone suggested that the RSPB should look at itself, suggesting that by letting Birds Of Prey eat racing pigeons they are not protecting birds. I say to him Birds of Prey have been eating Pigeons since before Pigeon Fanciers were around, look again at the groups of Feral Pigeons and see how many of your precious birds prefer to take their chance out in the wild even with Peregrines around rather than be Cooped up. It has also been said that during a race as the birds pass the sea cliffs on which Peregrines wait they are tired and therefore easy prey. Is it fair to take a bird miles from its home and make it fly back until it is exhausted? If the Government give in to all these people wanting to kill our birds where will it end? Gardeners, wanting Sparrows killed because they pull up yellow Crocuses, housewives wanting Blue Tits exterminated for pecking the tops off of milk bottles? The only bird I can think of that would be safe would be the Robin, because nobody ever has a bad word to say about Robins. Dave Goodwin the above i was just reading about the plight of our song birds and made interesting reading from rspb spin docotor ps i was born a pigeon fancier and will leave this earth a pigeon fancier

TODAY THE BIRDS. TOMORROW...? It isn't just the chemical threat that birds have got to deal with, they are being squeezed from all sides. Fishermen want a cull of Cormorants, the shooting fraternity want all birds of prey culled to save their precious Grouse, and Pigeon fanciers want a cull of Peregrines to save their birds. Need I go on ? I could as I have not touched on Egg Collectors and those people calling for the heads of Crows and Magpies. At the moment, the position of public enemy number one seems to be tied between Cormorants and Magpies. On the subject of racing pigeons, is it the Peregrine Falcon that is totally to blame for them not going home? You can see ringed Pigeons among their less salubrious relatives in town centres, amongst feeding parties and on sea cliffs. I can just imagine a flock flying over Bempton Cliffs and on seeing the females on the rocks below some of them letting out a shout of "look at the Plumage on that" and then diving down to join them. After all isn't that where Feral and therefore racing Pigeons originated in the first place. Someone suggested that the RSPB should look at itself, suggesting that by letting Birds Of Prey eat racing pigeons they are not protecting birds. I say to him Birds of Prey have been eating Pigeons since before Pigeon Fanciers were around, look again at the groups of Feral Pigeons and see how many of your precious birds prefer to take their chance out in the wild even with Peregrines around rather than be Cooped up. It has also been said that during a race as the birds pass the sea cliffs on which Peregrines wait they are tired and therefore easy prey. Is it fair to take a bird miles from its home and make it fly back until it is exhausted? If the Government give in to all these people wanting to kill our birds where will it end? Gardeners, wanting Sparrows killed because they pull up yellow Crocuses, housewives wanting Blue Tits exterminated for pecking the tops off of milk bottles? The only bird I can think of that would be safe would be the Robin, because nobody ever has a bad word to say about Robins. Dave Goodwin

Poor Oscar will have no doubt in my mind succumbed to a poison bait trap ,having read about the bird supposedly flying into the window rubbish ,the power of these birds he would have one through the bloody window who are they kidding :-/ if they do not fit into the rspb policy book ,there doomed just like the ruddy duck ,been shooting them for years . :-/

:-/ along way to fly under very poor weather conditions ,black clouds, rain though wind given as north west turning south on route . another good decisions to liberate :-/when the nrcc club held over .

yorkshire north road fed liberated 10.30

Thanks i will put that in me book for future .

the red cheq he said was a cock :-/ pjc thats a super bird how old can you show them till

The birds he gave me where a starting point for myself with these birds .sure i understand he will not give me his best ,but its a start until i come across some top birds .the mosaics mealy s look crackers .but i will look forward to showing them and learning whats required to have top show birds .

me mate just gave me a couple of young ones ,blue wfs a red cheq and a old blue cock to get me started with them ;D but he wouldnt give me a mealy tight sod ;D he wanted all the colorful ones for his shows .but once they fill out a bit and through the moult i look forward to entering them in a couple of shows . ;D

just been looking at a friends birds show racers ,love the mealys cracking birds

do louella sell these birds

outstanding looking birds ,credit to you both they look fantastic looking birds.

i also note the bad publicity constantly pushed out about us fanciers, Persecution of peregrine falcons by elements of the pigeon racing fraternity.does he have proof of this ????????????

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/longwate/NHPC.html maybe some use to you

did john halstead not just win a big race flying a van den bosche cock

if the birds on a two race like Barcelona turns up with out its ring any fancier would be gutted no ring no position or any channel race :-/ some sad people out there :-/

well said ,how many of these regional secretary's do not even keep pigeons never mind race them .but they keep takeing a nice pay packet from us. :-/ how much a year does a regional secretary get paid in a year .

http://www.owlpages.com/sounds.php not sure if you can download t

well done your club and federation tony .