Nwhu 07 X 4460

[blue lad]

A checker hen i think under side oily very thin blowing a gale out here today wind ssw.This is start of them !

[OLDYELLOW]

your doing a great job collecting these birds , what do you do take a sack of corn with ya ??? your a credit to the sport

[blue lad]

Have seen a few others fly by in the last half hour.The wind is still very srong more than was forcast.Aye the catering company provides as much barley and husked sun flower seeds as i need.

[frank-123]

Have seen a few others fly by in the last half hour.The wind is still very srong more than was forcast.Aye the catering company provides as much barley and husked sun flower seeds as i need.

 

do you see a lot of pigeons flying past i believe you are 130 mile from the coast?

[blue lad]

Yes Frank most weekends.Some stop but you have to catch them quick or they drink puddles of oil base mud and chems.result is they go down hill very fast and stay for ever in effect posioned its a sad fact. this is no place for a bird.Iam off shift now but have told the lads to look out.

[frank-123]

Yes Frank most weekends.Some stop but you have to catch them quick or they drink puddles of oil base mud and chems.result is they go down hill very fast and stay for ever in effect posioned its a sad fact. this is no place for a bird.Iam off shift now but have told the lads to look out.

 

just always thought birds never liked crossing water for birds to be so far out shocks me wonder where they race from to be so far out unless the wind blows them of course

[blue lad]

Aye frank as you know your self last few summers have been very windy.

There are quite a lot of birds end up out in middle of the north sea.Iv seen batches of 40 plus doos followed by 20 plus land and take off from the heli deck with the winds blowing at speeds of 35 to 50 knts it might not seem so much from dry land if the wind is coming from the west,south west ,north west they all blow off the land .So birds making way back from a long one coming up the east coast often let wind take them. And blowing at that speed with wind on the tail they can do 60plus mls hour by time they realise there is no land ahead only place to land is oil rig.I have sometimes 2 or 3 birds on one shift there are more than 80 oil rigs in a 50 mile radius .if i have three how many more are going out here?multi ply by 80 mind boggles.