willow

Thank you , well she is there on the roof and not going into the loft ,as the loft she was from has been taken down and moved now ..mmmmmm,so hoping she will go to the loft that is there , and then pair her up so she will stay close to home .I just wonder where she has been , maybe having a holiday in France on the riviera with a male companion !!!!!! Think i should go there myself for 26 days . At least she is safe , i will keep you posted with her future . Willow

Willow.my baby is home fron the race in france after 26days.i am so excited .i will go and see her tonight after work .at least she did make it .maybe shes a gd pigeon after all.i will have a belated birthday for her .yes she is home safe .

Advice , if you are thinking of joining a dating site ,i wouldn't put interests as Pigeon's , it won't get you all very far ...............so wife's if you are hoping to get rid of your men i hope they are more interested in paying the real birds attention rather than there featherd friends ..... listening to the forum on here it doesn't look like it , so your stuck with them .........

Oh well it didn't upload , your doves on your house look lovely , think i would like that on the end of my house and keep a few doves , they are beautiful chickadee, and the lofts are great also , well done to Duncan for building them . Willow

I don't have a pic of the outside but this is the avery inside where the birds are paired .Willow

The sleeping warrior , i would live there it is very beautiful,you are lucky if you can see it then .

Thank you

does anyone keep Doves?

Not been fishing this weekend , fishing's not good just now on The Earn , So im versatile stb , do you fish or can't you not multi task being a man ! I have a wide variety of interests not just pigeon's to keep me busy . Where in the west of Scotland are you ? I love going over to Arran as i paint and the scenery is terrific there .

News , still no bird home . but i have liberated 2 birds myself handled them and tossed them so im very pleased . I will train a new baby bird for next year and hopefully she will be more used to flying and then make the race and come home . Progress at my end ,i will email my cousin Joe to tell him my good news ,So guy's i will struggle on learning from the best and with encouragement from clockman ,thank you and Joe ,who knows i might make a pigeon woman yet !

The baby bird will be 1 year on Sunday , nope not back yet .She had a race the other week in Belgium and came home that night , but she is still missing .

Paul, why has it taken you 9 years to race again ?, i hope the weather is on your side and your birds make a good result for you and the next 9 years ahead also Willow

Well if your desperate to get him let me know and i will see what i can do to accomodate you ,we can all go to a united game and talk pigeon's !

He's not rambrant ..... but i do know what he is into !

I do fish , i fish with the Scottish fly fishing coach, who is also a Scottish champion fisher ! I never do anything by half stb...When i want to learn a new sport ,i learn from the best ....so i fish with the best , clay pigeon shoot with the best , and thought i would try live pigeon's , with the best of course !.......So iv'e coverd them all with the best i know .Pigeon's though is something that you have no control over as when you let them out ,its with the god's if they come back , no matter how good they are it seem's .I have had some encouragement from a few good pigeon men , so i am thanking them ,but i don't think my phobia is cured quite yet , so who know's , if she comes back i will wait and see .

An update ,no willow still , i have now given up any hope of her return .......But i did help take down a pigeon loft of 24feet yesterday ,today think i will give up pigeon's altogether knackerd from the lifting ,should i stick to fishing ....mmmmm it's a lot easier ! less bickering and more enjoyable and something to eat at the end of it .

What are you looking for the auction ?

well redrocket ,don't think that would go down with ma baby ,you pigeon men should celebrate getting your pigeons back with a big party ,but seen that all you all do is bicker like old women ,i don't think that would be possible ...however being a novice to the sport i have an open mind in this world of men ! and make exceptions for you all ..........

what do you think with a special bird cake ....mmmmmm its a thought .if she gets home ,my friend is hopeful she will , but now it's my fault i put her to the race in the first place ! can't win clockman .

Still no bird , has there been a lot of birds not home ? Hopefully she will return for her birthday next sunday .

Surely distances has everything to do with it stb , thats what racing is all about . all i am saying is why in the same race do some birds have to fly further to win the same race .Its the only sport where i know that this happens .Does every other sport do this , does a swimmer or runner have to go further then the next to win a race ? Sometimes there is a young race and an older age race making a bit of difference , But in pigeon racing its a bit confussing to a novice when my bird a yb had to fly much further than the bird in the borders ,but if she only had to fly to the borders she maybe would have a better chance of winning ....in my opinion .

Hello , my bird at the race was a yb she has not come back yet , i am a novice but what i can't quite get my head around is this . all birds have a chance to win a race i think as it is the breed in them to get home and with training them they pick out landmarks to achieve this , correct me if i am wrong here .What i fail to grasp is this , if it is a race with all birds having a fair chance to win why is it that some birds young or old have to fly much further than others to win that same race ? So the further they have to fly surely the better the bird has to be ? For instance my bird had to fly a lot further to Dundee than a bird say in the borders ,so the borders bird may have a better chance as the weather may change the further north the bird has to travel to get home ,slowing it down with more miles yet to fly .So if its a young bird or an old bird its chances are still not as good in my opinion to get back further away than a bird closer as they have to fly many more miles .Why is the race not the same miles for all the birds given them all the same flying miles and a better chance of winning . ? Willow

Well done to all who got a pigeon back , my baby willow is still not here , but there are a lot of experienced pigeons i hear are also not back , so i live in hope of her return .I had my first liberation tonight as i let out 4 young birds near my house out so i was very brave considering ive never touch a bird yet .Glad it was only 4 and not a basket full flapping about in my car . What i have to endure to show enthusiasm ,at least they got home ok so that was a bonus .Again congrates to all birds back . Willow

Vanreetsi will ask mu friend and get back to you on it ,if he can help you ok .

Thats good you got them all back , mine is away to the national over 500 miles so im praying she gets back , from this long race as she is not 1 until next sunday .