Lots Of Birds Landing On Rig Today

[blue lad]

3 batches of 20 plus birds landed through out the morning on the rig all made off in ESE further out to sea as the wind is still blowing from the wnw .From some i could sea they were lovely looking birds and were double race rubber rung?

[Guest stb-]

JUST LETS YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE POOR SODS

[blue lad]

Any idea of where they were racing from ?

[Guest IB]

Can you give a rough idea where the rig is?

 

Don't know of any races today near east coast but there were more than a few missing Saturday and Sunday coming North into Scotland into NW wind.

[Guest stb-]

Can you give a rough idea where the rig is?

 

Don't know of any races today near east coast but there were more than a few missing Saturday and Sunday coming North into Scotland into NW wind.

In the sea

[Williedoo]

Can you give a rough idea where the rig is?

 

Don't know of any races today near east coast but there were more than a few missing Saturday and Sunday coming North into Scotland into NW wind.

Think he's 85mls off Yarmouth.

[john cumming]

i am on the shearwater platform 130 miles east of dundee and up to now we have had no birds reported here over the weekend thankfully,

 

at present on here the weather is sunshine and visibility 10 knotical miles plus and 20 knot northerly wind 16 degrees

[Guest IB]

Think he's 85mls off Yarmouth.

 

There were bad races from Falaise and Saran over weekend, with one member on here saying he's had one of his Falaise pigeons reported in Belgium. Could be some of these birds attempting to cross the channel and being blown further into North Sea? If rig is off Yarmouth and wind WNW, at least there's a chance of making landfall in Holland.

 

Scottish West Coast Fed also had a bad one from Dunbar, 2? weeks ago, with birds reported on a rig 75 miles east of Aberdeen.

 

I'd one a few years back flying from Leicester in a south wind end up on a Norwegian rig 70 miles NW of Bergen. Difficult to measure accurately due to large Scale of map, but reckon bird flew between 600 and 700 miles. Took a hard look at an atlas and found a south wind at Leicester doesn't blow them toward Scotland, it blows them over the Yorkshire coastline into the North Sea.