Kids and Pigeons at NR School

[MsPigeon]

Hi all, I recently shared my pigeons with the 4th and 6th grade classes and North River School. The kids really enjoyed the experience and showed their thanks with letters and pictures. I just wanted to post them here because I was so proud and happy to recieve them. I thought the kids would also enjoy seeing them on the internet. I also thought when they visit to see their work posted they might even ask a few questions. And I think they will be surprised to see how world wide our sport of racing pigeons is. The whole download and upload, changeing file extensions and resizing may take me a few days to get them all posted.

Thank You for letting me share.

Yours in the sport.

Carol Fitzpatrick

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[THE FIFER]

VERY GOOD, THIS IS WHAT IS REQUIRED TO LET THE TEACHERS AND YOUNGER GENERATION KNOW JUST WHAT RACING PIGEONS ARE, GOOD CLEAN WELL LOOKED AFTER AND HEALTHY BIRDS, WELL DONE

[Guest]

Nice one Carol, CONGRATULATIONS  on a great job, I'm sure the kids really appreciated it.

 

[Guest]

spot on well done this is what its all about

[westy]

nice one carol very well done

[THE FIFER]

WELL DONE WE NEED A LOT MORE OF THIS, IT'S GOOD FOR US AND GOOD FOR THEM

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This depicts the students releasing the birds.

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[mealybar]

What a responce! Well done Carol

[Guest shadow]

Well done Carol I have tried the same thing taking birds into the local schools and got a very good response from the children, but unfortunaly thats as far as it went, never got any of the children to take it further.Very like my grandaughter up to the age of seven she was never out of the loft when she visited would do all the chores , feeding etc. Now shes ten she will not go anywhere near them. only interested in computers and music. I personally think we should target the newly retitired looking for a hobby.However keep up the good work and I hpoe you get some young fanciers following in your footsteps.

 

 

 

Shadowood Lofts

[Guest]

Shadow, you are so very right about targeting the about to and newly retired.

 

They have the time to work with the birds and many look for a reasonably priced hobby.

 

I think I've said this many times before but they have one thing money can't buy Grandchildren.  when I was a kid I spent a lot of time with my grandparents and I still do some of the things I learned from them today. (pigeon flying wasn't one of them)

 

I've a feeling this is where we will get our new generation of flyers from

[westy]

you can tell they realy enjoed the pigeons and you coming in with them once again a good job done.

[MsPigeon]

Thanks for all your wonderful comments,

I really have to admit I love to share the pigeons as much as they enjoy seeing them if not more. I always have fun shareing this wonderful hobby of ours and the wonders of the species.

I'm here at NR school again today subbing. I am hopeing the students get their work done so they can have a look at Pigeon Basics. Whether they join the sport or not it is learning something about the world around them.

yours in the sport.

Carol

[jimmy white]

absolutely fantastic to see the kids letters etc,, a great job done carol,, it looks as though the kids have thoroghly enjoyed it  ,,,well done :)

[mealybar]

Well done Carol I have tried the same thing taking birds into the local schools and got a very good response from the children, but unfortunaly thats as far as it went, never got any of the children to take it further.Very like my grandaughter up to the age of seven she was never out of the loft when she visited would do all the chores , feeding etc. Now shes ten she will not go anywhere near them. only interested in computers and music. I personally think we should target the newly retitired looking for a hobby.However keep up the good work and I hpoe you get some young fanciers following in your footsteps.

 

Shadowood Lofts

 

I completely agree with you for recruiting members; however I think the school visits act as probably the best place to defeat the flying rats steriotype. If the visits are backed up with a pigeon representing the school in a one loft race with regular updates I think we would get quite a few armchair fanciers :) - not having birds and maybe never getting them, but they have an interest and an awareness of pigeons and pigeon racing.

 

However organisation of something like this on a sufficient scale would have to come from the powers at the top; maybe a job for the new pr person

[THE FIFER]

A PIGEON BASICS ONE LOFT RACE WITH ALL BIRDS BEING DONATED TO SCHOOLS, WITH A WEEKLY REPORT GOING BACK TO THE SCHOOL, PRIZE ETC, OR AM I JUST DREAMING, IS IT POSSIBLE RICHARD????? WHO EVER PUTS A BIRD IN DONATES IT TO A SCHOOL, (STILL DREAMING) WOULD NEAD SOMEWHERE TO RACE THEM FROM ETC,

[mealybar]

In my spare time :P Its something to think about :)

[THE FIFER]

CHEERS RICHARD COULD BE GOOD FOR THE SCHOOLS AND ANOTHER MARK-UP FOR P/BASICS, WITH ENTRY FEE AND SALE OF BIRDS GOING TO THE PRIZE COULD BE WORTH THINKING ABOUT,

[Guest]

Another possibility would be to send the school a list of the ring numbers of a persons young bird team, put the colours and sexes on the list and let the kids pick a race name for their own bird. Take a photo of each bird and print the ring number, Race name and the Owners name on it and give it to the kids. You could send training reports to the school and invite the kids to come around on race day to watch the birds come home.

 

I did this a couple of years back with a crowd of ladies I play cards with on the internet, everyone chose their own bird from my list and I sent them all an e-mail weekly during training. Once the race season started they were all on line bright and early Saturday night to see how their birds had done.  20 Ladies learned about pigeon racing and they had a lot of fun

 

Just a thought