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We would train all our birds old and young in 3's up to 25 miles. We feel there are 2 main advantages to this:- 1. It makes the birds think for themselves rather than follow that batch home. In young bird racing especially we tend to get more birds coming later in the evening from difficult races and also the following morning that the majority of club mates. I don't know for sure if it is because the birds are trained in smaller numbers or not and so have to think for themselves, but I feel it has some input into this. 2. Where we live is 4 miles from the mountains and which are littered with peregrines (35 + pairs known), so if you train in small numbers if Percy does decide to strike your birds it will only be 3 birds that he/she comes into direct contact with rather than your whole team is you train en mass. PJ

ihu2002 s044464 IHU 02 S 043001 to 045700 Balbriggan HPS Secretary Tony Corcoran 00343-18413518 Hope this is of help. PJ

Personally I still think it was bad form on Phillips part not to contact me. If there was a problem with getting the hen to John Wheatcroft all you had to do was let me know and I would have asked John to collect her from you. This year alone I have sent back to England 3 NEHU cocks 1x2 year old and 2x3 year old over to be liberated in Sunderland (all of which returned with our birds from Sennen Cove) as well as a 5 year old Scottish hen that I arranged to get liberated in Ayr. I felt these 4 birds were decent pigeons and deserved a chance, they had all frlown from France before. On each case I was out of pocket getting them across, but I did it for the sake of the pigeons because I would hope that someone if they got a decent pigeon of ours in might do the same. The hen belongs to Phillips and I respect his decision not to sell this hen for whatever reason, all I am stating is that a simple PM would have removed any misunderstanding. PJ

I made Phillips an offer of £50 (what he said he had paid for the grizzle hen as a late bred ) when he first put her up for sale a couple of months back. I repeated this offer to him via PM a week ago when he was advertising stock birds for sale once again. On both occassions I never even received a reply from him, which I thought was vey strange and bad form on his part. It just seems strange that someone puts a bird up in the For Sales section of the site twice then says the bird isn't for sale. This would definately put me off buying any birds from him. PJ

A few more

Yes they are all ours Albear.

A club member who is a friend got a new camera from his wife as a birthday present and came over to experiment with it Sam. I think he said it was a Panasonic D60 10.MegaPixeldigital camera but not 100% sure.

A few eyes for the eyesign enthusiasts.

IHU 07 S 85001 - 90000 Sarsfields HPS, Dublin Secretary Paddy Cording 00353-16231091. Hope this is of help PJ

Last I heard A Mc Donald had won the young bird national beating C & L Woodside by decimals.

Last I heard 19 old hens and 17 young birds clocked on the day, these numbers may be updated later with additional day arrivals.

It says the cock that has won 2 x1st has been sold Wiley. He isn't the 2000 pencil cock though if you look at the post more closely again. PJ

Hello doos r us, The ring secretary for all IHU...EDC rings is ... MR R Morrow 91, Ballydorn Road, Killinchy, Newtownards, Co. Down, BT23 6QB, N. Ireland. Tel. NO. 02897-542087. Hope this is of help. PJ

Hello Rembrant, IHU 2007N 27641 is registred to Donaghadee HPS secretary Mr John Erskine 16 East Street, Donaghadee, County Down, N. Ireland Tel. No. 02891-888465. Hope this is of help. Regards PJ

Received a pair of Braakhuis old birds from Jimmy yesterday. Am very happy with the pair and have already ordered 4 additional youngsters from Jimmy next year. Both birds are of the type I like for channel flying, small to medium in size good feather and well balanced. The hen of the pair as a yearling was a prizewinner from Tours. I am confident that these birds will produce good channel birds for us, with time and patience and will also make a good cross into our exisiting distance family. Many thanks Jimmy. PJ

Hello Sean, IHU 05 N 19250 is from Ballywalter HPS Sec. H Mc Master 92 Shore Road, Ballyhalbert, County Down, BT22 1BJ. Phone No. 02842-758356 Hope this is of help. PJ

Hello Bonzo, The IHU S birds can be reported to the ring secretary Mr Seamus Lehane, 69, Lorcan Crescent, Santry, Dublin 9, Eire. Tel. No 003531-8421016 Fax. No. 003531-8621962 Hope this is of help. PJ

Thnaks all for your help I will phone the relevant secretaries tonight. Regards PJ

I caught the following 3 birds old birds tonight on a nearby neighbours house. They said they ahd been there 2 days and had been picking in their garden. All 3 birds are badly down and pretty much flown out. Their ring numbers are:- SU 04 AB 2947 NEHU 05 TV 1178 NEHU 06 NEC 4051. There has been a lot of English and Scottish birds over here in the last couple of weeks possibly due to clashing with our birds coming into Ireland, I know of 14 birds that where sent back to the mainland this week. These seem decent pigeons that have just got into the wrong company and been taken offline. The SU hen has an ETS ring on her also. Can anyone help locate their owners? Many thanks PJ

Hello Bonzo, The DARK CH COCK IHU O6 N I7282 is from the Annsborough HPS club secretary A Tonner 39 Annsborough Park, Annsborough. County Down, BT 31 9NH, Northern Ireland. PJ

I hope you are well and back on your feet again soon Rose. Take care until then. PJ

Best of luck to all competing, I hope you all have a good race. PJ

Many thanks Geordie I will pass these details on to the finder. PJ

Dark Chequer Cock SU 05 DF 3443 rung with a LETHAM GOLDEN RING 2005 375 came into a fancier in club a week ago badly hawked. Bird has recovered a bit now but is opened up his back still and has only 2 feathers in tail. ...Does anyone know who to contact please? Fancier who has the bird has rang SHU 3 times but hasn't been able to contact anyone there yet. Many thanks PJ

14th of March Mullingar here approx 89 miles. PJ