Pigeon Navigation Forecast Sunday 18/05/08

[budgie]

With so many Federations having the sense to holdover till today and the forecast from Pigeon Navigation showing Yellow turning slightly to Green it will be interesting to know what the returns,times and velocities are like in your area compared to yesterday.

Good Luck to All. :)

Budgie

[tom corrie]

sence being the key word a word not in the midland fed dictionary 1 bird fom 18 yesterday not a feather this morning

[Guest TAMMY_1]

With so many Federations having the sense to holdover till today and the forecast from Pigeon Navigation showing Yellow turning slightly to Green it will be interesting to know what the returns,times and velocities are like in your area compared to yesterday.

Good Luck to All. :)

Budgie

 

I can remember you using this  site before Andy, it never worked then . :-/

[cowly7]

With so many Federations having the sense to holdover till today and the forecast from Pigeon Navigation showing Yellow turning slightly to Green it will be interesting to know what the returns,times and velocities are like in your area compared to yesterday.

Good Luck to All. :)

Budgie

 

Andy do you have a link for this site?

[frank-123]

http://www.pigeonnavigation.com/

 

this is the one i use but as tammy has said sometime's its not too  trustworthy

[cowly7]

http://www.pigeonnavigation.com/

 

this is the one i use but as tammy has said sometime's its not too  trustworthy

 

Cheers Bart.

[Whats it called Cumbernauld]

Any tools that will help reduce what happened yeasterday is of great importance.thanks for posting this link

 

Cheers

Rab smith

[Novice]

I found the information on this link highly interesting.

Elimination of as many variables as possible must help. It's strange that others are not aware of the existence of such a tool

[Guest IB]

There were plenty posts on here yesterday giving weather information that was easy to understand and very dependable given that it was provided by pigeon people on the ground, for pigeon people, for pigeon racing up and down the country.

 

What other tool do you need? A brain perhaps, or the ability to use it, would surely have stopped pigeons being liberated in the face of first-hand weather reports that would tell even a 2 year old - don't liberate.

[johno]

100% IB common sense appears not so common. simple answer no super theories needed. birds should not have been let go.

[tom corrie]

SORRY LADS MADE A SPELLING ERROR IN THE WORD SENSE STILL NO MORE BIRDS HOME MUST BE OVER IN IRELAND

STILL 1 FROM 18 BEST RETURNS I HAVE HEARD 4 FROM 8

[Whats it called Cumbernauld]

Where are you Tom?

 

Rab Smith

[superstar]

There were plenty posts on here yesterday giving weather information that was easy to understand and very dependable given that it was provided by pigeon people on the ground, for pigeon people, for pigeon racing up and down the country.

 

What other tool do you need? A brain perhaps, or the ability to use it, would surely have stopped pigeons being liberated in the face of first-hand weather reports that would tell even a 2 year old - don't liberate.

 

Well the people who liberated are there to see it first hand and still they do it so think the only answer is to replace them with people who care for the welfare of the birds as well as the fanciers interests. To do the things they have is nothing short of disgusting on a criminal scale. Hope you guys get the majority back if not all of them

[Ronnie]

With no intention of picking an argument You cant put all the blame on the people who liberated the birds we are all capeable of reading a weather forecast and all knew the weather for yesterday yet we still sent the birds (myself included).Its easy to critisise(sp) after the event.In this day and age there is no exscuse for not checking the weather.If you think its gonna be a bad one raise the issue with your club sec and if all else fails keep the birds home.Like i said i'm not trying to pick an argument because i sent my own birds as well yesterday luckily we had half decent returns but i am still 2 hens down wich is a big loss for me as i only had seven hens to start with.

[jimmy white]

With no intention of picking an argument You cant put all the blame on the people who liberated the birds we are all capeable of reading a weather forecast and all knew the weather for yesterday yet we still sent the birds (myself included).Its easy to critisise(sp) after the event.In this day and age there is no exscuse for not checking the weather.If you think its gonna be a bad one raise the issue with your club sec and if all else fails keep the birds home.Like i said i'm not trying to pick an argument because i sent my own birds as well yesterday luckily we had half decent returns but i am still 2 hens down wich is a big loss for me as i only had seven hens to start with.

 

well said ronnie, the members sent the birds , often too much blame is put on race controllers , but i feel the members who sent should take half the blame, convoyers and race cotrollers , have a most difficult,and thankless job , when some one loses 30 birds and another member in the same race loses one,, its themselves they should be looking at    

[budgie]

We have 53 out 71 within the first hour racing fromCharnock 157 miles taking them 3hrs 53 mins .The best times to hand are 3hrs 41 mins. :)

[tom corrie]

IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU SEND 1 OR A 100 BIRDS AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU PUT THE WELFARE OF YOUR BIRDS IN THE HANDS OF THE

RACE CONTROLER WHO IF HE IS DOING HIS JOB SHOULD KNOW THAT THERE ARE TWO FEDS 30 MILES UP THE ROAD WHO DID NOT

LIBERATE YOU MUST ASK THE QUESTION WHY THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE ANSWER BAD WEATHER I KNOW IT IS A THANKLESS TASK BUT THE

PERSON WHO MADE THE DECISION MUST CARRY THE CAN

 

RAB I STAY IN AIRDRIE    I NOW HAVE 8 BIRDS HOME FROM 18 DID NOT START TO COME TILL AFTER 12 am

[jimmy white]

http://www.pigeonnavigation.com/

 

this is the one i use but as tammy has said sometime's its not too  trustworthy

 

its very intresting ,,seemed trustworthy this weekend   ill check that out each week  now

[Guest IB]

With no intention of picking an argument You cant put all the blame on the people who liberated the birds we are all capeable of reading a weather forecast and all knew the weather for yesterday yet we still sent the birds (myself included).Its easy to critisise(sp) after the event.In this day and age there is no exscuse for not checking the weather.If you think its gonna be a bad one raise the issue with your club sec and if all else fails keep the birds home.Like i said i'm not trying to pick an argument because i sent my own birds as well yesterday luckily we had half decent returns but i am still 2 hens down wich is a big loss for me as i only had seven hens to start with.

 

I usually watch the weather forecast all week. I for one did not expect to wake up on Saturday to hours of persistent rain and low full cloud cover. I expected a fair day with an odd shower - that was the forecast I read for Fri, Sat and Sun, and that is what we got - on Friday and Sunday.

 

But a forecast is just that - a forecast,   and on the day it can turn out to be something different. That's when people need to co-operate and give reports of how the weather actually is on the day. The overall picture on Saturday on this Site anyway was pretty clear : it wasn't a day for racing pigeons.

 

Take your point about losses. In a small team, 1 pigeon down is a big hit. I'm 4 down from start of season = 1/5th of my team and we aren't over 200 miles yet.