air thermals

[Guest KING BILLY]

do any of yous think when there doos have hit there pek can rech the beter air thermals higher up to take advanteg of there condistion than say others that have not hit thare pek yet and have to slog it home because i think birds at the distanc use this lighter air to there advanteg ;) ;)

[bewted]

yes i think its true !!!

[just ask me]

i think smater birds will find the right height no matter what the distance

[Guest KING BILLY]

if the wind is say on there nose for us thats nw or north do yous think they can get out of it higher up insted of hedg hopping or dos that only hapen closer to home

[Guest phillip]

From experience , the stronger the wind , the lower the birds fly . On a windless day you will probably find the birds high in the sky . We had birds killing themselves flying into vehicles while flying low above the ground or road during strong winds .

 

On quiet days our birds came in at high altitude dropping straight down to the loft like a dive bomber .

 

Come racing season , our birds came in to land barely above house roofs during bad weather.

[Guest IB]

If I understand your post right, I can't see a racing pigeon making use of thermals as these are upwards spirals of warm air, which wild birds make use of in flight to conserve energy, getting carried to the top of one thermal, then gliding downwards to catch the bottom of another rising thermal, repeating the process over and over again. So I think  progress forwards would be a lot slower than straight flight through the air?

[Guest frank dooman]

i do believe that some birds will use the high carry which might be very different from the low carry lets face it we had some very wrong results ( acording to the wind)this year when you looked at  the wind direction, not taking anything away from the winners but birds in the west  beating the birds in the east with a very strong west wind by over 40/50yds