Pompey Mick

No longer there.

There's a jet propelled pigeon in the NFC today from Fougeres S.Harrison & son from Bradford are currently first doing 2982 YPM 101 mph .

Beautiful day here in Portsmouth, a bit of a blustery SW wind but perfect visibility. Went to the Portsmouth lib site this morning where 13 transporters were parked. Watched several thousand NW birds being liberated at 8.00 in very good conditions. Here's a few photos, will put more on later.

BBC at Messac up at 7.00

Solent at Fougeres, BBC at Messac

Pigeon pharmacy do it www.hyperdrug.com

Wish you a speedy recovery Rick

You get an A4 size notification form, clearly typed with all the details of the transfer on it, a thousand times better than the old duplicates you could hardly read.

Here's Bob Rose's small loft. Bob is 70yr old, not in the best of health, only keeps a small team but he's still as keen as he can be.

Lovely set-ups all of them, and Davey B's is a pigeon palace.

07.00 Portsmouth Changeable picture here plenty of blue sky one minute then overcast the next, clear with a strong gusty SW wind Recent showers

9 cocks, half my team thanks to the 7day rule.

Solent Fed at Fougeres

I don't know how much of a novice you are with pigeons, but you have to master the arts of feeding,care & control before you think about racing. I have a few basic books which may be of help depending on your level of knowledge.

3 out of 6 from Picauville doing 930. Southampton NR birds very scarce locally

Solent Fed away at 1.15 from Picauville Light N Wind

Portsmouth 09.45 Still 100% cloud cover, but starting to brighten . Quite chilly with very light winds. Check out www.harboureye.co.uk for live webcams of Portsmouth harbour

Solent at Picauville liberated at 13.30 Lt. NE Wind

Portsmouth 08.30 Bright sky, Sun strengthening, cold NE wind. Not so good in Northern France though with fog at the moment, Solent Fed at Picauville, luckily not due to liberate till the late morning due to going on the overnight ferry.

Picauville with the Solent Fed

Solent Fed up at 9.45 Kingsdown

The Portsmouth webcam is back on line. It looks Northward across Portsmouth Harbour. www.harboureye.co.uk

here in Pompey its fine & dry, very light East wind, cloudless sky, chilly start.

Perhaps we could get a table of comparisons for each system and tick the boxes. What ETS systems will the master work with, What rings will it read, how do you get, say, a Bricon master to read a Unikon pocket clock, do we need adaptor leads or connectors. Are the rings re-useable Is Unikon the only system approved in Scotland?

Surely, if this is the case, then the Bricon system in its present form is not approved by the RPRA and shouldn't be advertised for sale in this country for racing purposes.