PATTY BHOY

the allotment that has 7 lofts is club owned,the allotments with 2 are private owned.

the reason i am asking is that i have a choice of 2 allotment sites,1 is 4 miles away the other is 3 miles away.the 1 that is 4 miles away has 7 lofts on it and the 1, 3 miles away has 2 lofts on it,this allotment has a much bigger space to work with , :-/privacy etc. give me your thoughts. :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

what kind of distance do the members have to go to get to there lofts,ie backdoor,allotments or further. would be interesting to know.

have a look

the slip stream from a aircraft that size could cause some damage.

On Sunday, June 29, 1997, a great race was held to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association. More than 60,000 homing pigeons were released at 6:30 AM in the morning from a field in Nantes (southern France), flying to lofts all over southern England 400 to 500 miles away. By 11:00 AM the majority of the racing birds had made it out of France and were over the English Channel. They should have arrived at their lofts by early afternoon. They didn't. A few thousand of the birds straggled in over the next few days. Most were never seen again. In pigeon racing terms, the loss of so many birds was practically unheard of, a disaster. Any one bird could get lost, but tens of thousands? Hagstrum, in studying this event, noticed an odd fact. At the very same time the racing pigeons were crossing the Channel, 11:00 AM, the Concorde supersonic transport (SST) airliner was flying along the Channel on its morning flight from Paris to New York. In flight the SST generates a shock wave that pounds down toward the earth, a carpet of sound almost a hundred miles wide. The racing pigeons flying below the Concorde could not have escaped the intense wave of sound. The birds that did eventually arrive at their lofts were lucky enough to be very slow racers -- they were still south of the Channel when the SST passed over, ahead of them.

you should treat only when it is needed.

first class job.

Aberdeen 5 East Fife 0,playing with 10 men goalkeeper sent off in the first 5 minutes.

have a read. http://www.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/policy/species/birdsofprey/pigeons.asp

i`m stating how much land they own.RSPB – 124,172 acres

could the members please explain about the hours of darkness on race day/night.

Aberdeen 3 East fife 0,at half time

RSPB – 124,172 acres THE Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is one of the UK's richest charities and has used part of its wealth to become one of the most rapidly acquiring landowners in Scotland. When the top 20 list of Scottish landowners was put together in 2000, the RSPB was 15th with 87,000 acres. It now sits eighth with almost 50 per cent more land in its Scottish holdings to date and more purchases expected in the future. The organisation manages 75 nature reserves totalling 165,622 acres in Scotland, owning 124,172 acres. The rest of the land has management agreements in place. The RSPB has reintroduced species such as the white-tailed eagle and set up visitor attractions. Its largest site is the 43,754-acre Forsinard Flows nature reserve in Caithness and Sutherland, an important habitat for golden plover, dunlin and merlin. Other important reserves are Coll, home to corncrakes; Dunnet Head in Orkney, famed for puffins, guillemots, fulmars, razorbills and kittiwakes; and Loch Garten, home of the osprey. Its biggest concentration of land is in Orkney, where it owns and runs 13 reserves. The RSPB's massive holdings and thousands of members make it a powerful force in Scotland and across the UK.

well done to Brian and all involved.

huns wasted scottish football,4,1,4,1.what a formation. ??) ??) ??) ??) ??)

natural,if there no hawks about.

the thick TIMS will show you huns up tha morra.

hope she gets well soon.

when first had pigeons 23year ago,gave 2 winning birds to a lorry driver friend of mine took them over the forth to alloa for a toss,completely different direction too normal got 1 back lost the other,only talking about 20 miles.the bird that got lost had won from cheltenham 280 miles,puzzling.

AM IN THE SAME BOAT,HOPE TO GET A T3 FOR ABOOT £100 BUT HAS TO BE A GOOD ONE.

sorry fplks should be FRANCE :B :B :B :B

i would put 40 to 50 in 26x6 loft.

wales 22 scotland 13

after work bought her flowers then took her shopping to stirling then went for a meal at frankie and bennies. getting brownie points before the footie tomorrow.