THE FIFER

TWICE WEEKLY

I WILL HAVE TO WATCH A FEW OF MY NESTS AS THE HAVE ONLY HATCHED ONE YOUNGSTER, PROBABLY THE COLD WETHER WE HAVE HAD, OR WITH THEM NOT GETTING OUT WHEN PAIRED. KEEP PLENTI STARW ETC IN THE NEST, I HAVE SOME BEAN BAGS WHICH U GET IN PARCELS TO KEEP DAMPNESS OUT. THEY ARE GOOD TO PUT IN BESIDE SINGLE YOUNGSTERS, AS WELL AS KEEPING THE DAMP OUT,

MUST GET THEM OUT AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE SO THEY WILL KNOW WHERE TO COME BACK TOO MORE SO WITH DOVE COTES, I HAVE A FRIEND WHO IS TRYING TO SETTLE FANTAILS TO ONE, HE HAS ERECTED A LARGE GARDEN NET OVER THE DOVE COTE GIVING THE BIRDS PLENTY ROOM TO GET ABOUT AND RETURN TO THE COTE.

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, LETS THEM KNOW WHERE THEY ARE BEFORE THEY WANT TO TAKE OFF, ALSO SUN AND FRESH AIR IS GOOD FOR THEM AFTER BEING ENCLOSED IN NESTS, ONCE WEANED THEY COME ON LIKE MAGIC.

ITS A LAHORE

THE EGGS WOULD HAVE TO HATCH TOGETHER IE A DAY BETWEEN AT THE MOST,

THEY ARE ARRANGING ALL THE PRESS, (MARIE CARIE REPS) HOW U DOING A F.

I'M IN

IT CERTAINLY SPREADS WHEN IT STARTS, IS IT THE WILD BIRDS THAT SPREAD IT, AS I HEAR IT'S NOT AIR BORN,

YES I WAS AT NINEWELLS ON WEDNESDAY VISITING MY YOUNGER BROTHER, AND HAD TO WASH MY HANDS GOING IN AND COMING OUT, SOME HOSPITAL, LIKE A TOWN THE SIZE OF IT AND ITS SHOPS ETC, U NEED A TAXI TO GET AROUND THE HOSPITAL NEVER MIND GETTING THERE.

MIKE IS THIS IN HOMING PIGEONS OR IS IT STREET PIGEONS

AND IN ANY PLACE " FOR F***s SAKE"

ALL THE BEST HAVE A NICE DAY THE FIFER.

AT THIS TIME MUST NOT BE IN CONTACT WITH WILD BIRDS IT WOULD HAVE TO BE STRAIGHT FROM THE SKY AND COVERED SO BIRDS COULD NOT GET ACCESS. NOT EASY KEEPING BIRDS( UR PIGEONS )AWAY FROM GUTTERS ETC BUT MUST TRY.

I AGREE WITH U IN A WAY HYACINTH, BUT ITS NOT THE PUBLICS FAULT THEY ARE WORRIED ITS THE INFO WHICH IS GETTING SPREAD AROUND, AND THE PUBLIC DOES NOT KNOW THE SIUATION, IF THEY DO NOT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT PIGEONS AND READING WHAT THE PAPERS SAY, THEN THEY MUST BE WORRIED, THE PIGEON FANCIERS ARE NOT GETTING THEIR BITS PUT TO THE PUBLIC, SO THE PUBLIC ARE WORRIED ABOUT BIRDS, (NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE DIRTY CROWS ETC KNOCKING ABOUT THEIR GARDENS WHICH THEY SHOULD BE AND THE DUCKS AND SWANS ETC) YES I AGREE WE CANNOT BOW DOWN TO THINGS WE DO NOT HAVE TOO, BUT UNTIL THESE GET SORTED AND THE PUBLIC GET EDUCATED, THEN WE WILL HAVE TO TAKE THINGS EASY, LOOK AT THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP PARROTS, THEY HAVE BEEN DUMPING THEM ON BIRD SANCTUARY GATES ETC, THEY ARE AFRAID TO KEEP THEM, BUT AT LEASED THE PUBLIC NOW KNOW ABOUT THEM AS A STATEMENT WAS ON TV TELLING THE PUBLIC THERE IS NO DANGER WITH PARROS, AS THEY ARE NOT MIXING WITH MIGATOREY BIRDS, NO ONE HAS TOLED THE PUBLIC THAT RACING PIGEONS ARE SAFE OR LOW RISK, THE PUBLUIC DOES NOT KNOW, AND THEY WILL TAKE IT IN MORE IF IT COMES FROM SOME GOVERNING BODY RATHER THAN FROM A PIGEON FANCIER.

good if i hear anything i will let u know

good sence bruno,

THE LIBERATION BY MYSELF OF BIRDS FOR THE MARIE CURIE PHOTO SHOOT ON MONDAY THE 27TH FEB WAS DOWN FOR EDINBURGH, THIS WILL NOW TAKE PLACE IN LEVEN IN FIFE AT THE SAINSBURY SUPERMARKET CAR PARK AT 12-20PM,

IF U WANT TO CONTACT THE QUEEN BY POST OR E-MAIL click on> http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page249.asp

QUEENS WEB SITE, http://www.royal.gov.uk

AMTRAK WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE THE HOMING EXPRESS SERVICE, AS CURRENTLY THERE ARE NO CHANGE TO ANY ACTIVITY RELATING TO PIGEONS, SEE FULL REPORT COMING UP ON P/BASICS LATEST NEWS

I THINK WE WILL GET SOME SORT OF RACING, WHICH WOULD BE BETTER THAN NOTHING, BUT IF IT COMES TO IT WHERE BIRDS ARE TO BE CONFINED TO THE LOFT THEN 06 YOUNGSTERS ARE A NO GO, JUST IMAGINE THEM GETTING OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN THEY ARE YEARLINGS, "WHOOPS THEY ARE GONE"

I HAVE TRIED DEEP LITTER BUT LIKE OTHERS THOUGHT IT TRAILED ABOUT AND STUCK TO UR FEET, ALSO FIND AFTER A WHILE THE LOFT GETS A BIT DUSTY OVERHEAD, OK MAYBE I WAS NOT DOING IT RIGHT, BUT I NOW SCRAPE OUT AND USE FLOOR WHITE, WHICH DOES NOT CARRY ABOUT IF U BRUSH IT IN, GIVE IT A GOOD RUB IN AND IT WILL NOT MAKE A MESS AND KEEPS THE FLOOR DRY HAS A LOVELY SMELL AND LOOKS GOOD, AS FOR THE OTHER THINGS IT PROTECT ETC WELL WHO KNOWS,

I WONDER IF THIS DAILY STAR NEWSPAPER WILL BE AT ANY OF THE LIBERATIONS ON MONDAY THEY ARE TAKING PLACE AT, VAUXHALL,LONDON,CATERHAM,CARDIF,NORTHAMPTON,MARGATE,WALSAL,DEVON, FIFE (THAT'S ME) BELFAST,WEST SUSSEX,PETERBOROUGH,GLOUCESTER,NORFOLK (THE ROYAL LOFTS) SO MAYBE THEY WILL BE AT ONE WHO KNOWS. THESE LIBERATIONS ARE ALL FOR THE MARIE CURIE DAFFODIL APPEAL.ON MONDAY THE 27TH FEB.

YES HYACINTH I ALWAYS TRY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO GET MY WHITE BIRDS IN THE EYES OF THE PUBLIC, I DO ANY CHARITY, SCHOOLS ETC ONE OF THE LOCAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS ADOPTED THE BIRD I HAD AT THE QUEENS GOLDEN JUBILEE WHEN SHE LIBERATED 50 WHITES IT WAS THE ONLY ONE FROM SCOTLAND AND HE CAME HOME TOOK 14 DAYS FOR THE 200ML OR SO JOURNEY BUT IN ALL NOT BAD CONSIDERING THE OTHER 49 WERE FROM DOWN SOUTH, THE SCHOOL NAMED HIM PURDEY, I WAS ALSO AT THE SCOTTISH POLICE TRAINING COLLEGE IN 04 IN THE PRESENCE OF PRINCESS ANNE WHO WAS OPENING A MEMORIAL FOR ALL POLICE WHO LOST THERE LIFE IN THEIR LINE OF DUTY, I WAS BACK LAST YEAR FOR THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY, WHERE I AM LIBERATING MY WHITES ON MONDAY FOR THE MARIE CARIE CANCER PHOTO SHOOT WILL BE WELL IN THE EYES OF THE PUBLIC AS I HAVE PERMITION TO USE THE SUPEMARKET CAR PARK, WITH A ARGOS AND FOCUS AND PET SHOP ALL THERE SO PLENTY PUBLIC, I HAVE TO ATTACH SMALL DAFFODILS TO THE BIRDS FEET, AND THERE IS GOING TO BE PLENTY PRESS THERE, SO HOPE ALL GOES WELL, MY WEB SITE HAS PHOTOS OF THE POLICE EVENT.