blue lad

Hello i need someone to contact me who could accom 3 strays till friday as the weather is not good for birds flyin south today .best give them a chance on fri after all they have been through. weathers more fav, one has to go brighton ,one for essex , one mancheser,I will be off heli cop at sky drift norwich air field at some time after 1.00 pm ,any help in this mater i would be very grateful .

Hello members from essex feds. The lads on the rig got 15 gb birds back on the Boat yesterday. should be away first light.Never got numbers off them as they are not pigeon men.& were gone before i got up.Hope they get back home allright.as some were very weak looking when i seen them on the heli deck.A lovely day for a fly down here.

Will do .I spoke to sec they were flying from thurso .5000 birds only 38 home last night a right smash!

Thanks very much for the quick reply cheif. all best.

Has been on since yesterday olso 9 other birds arrived this morning up on the heli deck.quite a few flying around in the rain yesterday.they all look very poorly I have put up a half drum of mixed seeds for them its a better day now they might take off again . will seen tonight. Thurso birds?

Aye frank as you know your self last few summers have been very windy. There are quite a lot of birds end up out in middle of the north sea.Iv seen batches of 40 plus doos followed by 20 plus land and take off from the heli deck with the winds blowing at speeds of 35 to 50 knts it might not seem so much from dry land if the wind is coming from the west,south west ,north west they all blow off the land .So birds making way back from a long one coming up the east coast often let wind take them. And blowing at that speed with wind on the tail they can do 60plus mls hour by time they realise there is no land ahead only place to land is oil rig.I have sometimes 2 or 3 birds on one shift there are more than 80 oil rigs in a 50 mile radius .if i have three how many more are going out here?multi ply by 80 mind boggles.

Yes Frank most weekends.Some stop but you have to catch them quick or they drink puddles of oil base mud and chems.result is they go down hill very fast and stay for ever in effect posioned its a sad fact. this is no place for a bird.Iam off shift now but have told the lads to look out.

Have seen a few others fly by in the last half hour.The wind is still very srong more than was forcast.Aye the catering company provides as much barley and husked sun flower seeds as i need.

A checker hen i think under side oily very thin blowing a gale out here today wind ssw.This is start of them !

Lovely morning no wind can see 20mls distant 120klms off norfolk coast.

Thank you very much thats a great helpt to my collection.

Your rite there Robbie thats is long distance racing!Did you put that een you were going to send?

Any doos away from the north east section ?

Flowen to beach today by heli copter&train to darlington and let go on his door step this afternoon .Who need couriers when you get this service in the oil industry.A happy ending to a lovely bird lost from clermont last weekend.How many other good birds still missing from that race? Many thanks to the two middsboro guys who helped.

landed on the rig last night,Have not caught her yet she might take off again very scarey bird.No ets or rubber on .

Aye i know what you mean the owner is beside him self with rage!Its not first time he has had birds late or missing for weeks from france races return minus rings.

I got a pigeon yesterday from brighton lost more than a week ago from deep in france landed on on the heli deck a knew he was a good un just by the look of him .Flights scorched on one wing and both rings missing .The owner is absolutly raging about it . It was his best cock and fav,He got 2 birds at the weekend olso missing for a week and more minus there ets rings .must have been someone in france as it was very windy from south on sat when birds came back they must have been in someones loft bad sports to say the least! Anyone else had this happen over years?

This bird landed on the rig this afternoon .Flights on one wing burned scorched wing stamp with fone no, durham area & minus rings. Who would do a thing like this b******s!

Both birds fit and well and let off in yarmouth . lovely day to fly home in however i dont know about the dutch bird. They seemed to have paired up after time together . One has to fly to annan west coast . Will wait and see if the dutch one follows.Lovely to see them away and fightin fit after the terrible state they were in .

any info as to owner he is a crackin looking bird .the supply vessel was along side the rig and he flew up there is still a few on the vessel .some force of wind out here today .

Sorry about that coment kenny. i only work in england for three weeks at a time . the weather is so much kinder than north scotland let alone shetland.

Would'ent get a better chance today. A lovely morning south off norfolk spoke to some of the rigs 70mls further north light wind clear vis. Weather chart says its stronge sw winds on monday.come on cut the strings.

Thanks very much for the info jannie . iam workin from 12 midnite to 12 mid day so sorry for late reply.

Arrived on the rig today found these two very run down birds must have been here all week by looks of them poor souls.

Was over fraserbugh beach this morning seen 40 to 60 pigeons flying south about 8.15 am going some lick i might add.