Cocks Flying In Dark ?

[Guest TAMMY_1]

When we were in Holland they train there birds to home in the dark they release them when light is fading

mark van den berg says he has had many birds land in the dark from long distance races

Also a top Scottish fancier told me he liberated some birds in near darkness for him and a friend only two birds made it home at night one bird for each fancier

the rest all came home next morning

 

of the two birds that made it home that night both had multiple tickets from the snfc races

 

I know the late Hughie Brown,who also was an excellent SNFC flier as well as being a great racer in Lanarkshire and he also won LSC, four or five times, if memory serves me correct and he told me that he used to train a lot of his birds at night releasing them when he was sure it would be dark enough so that they would not make it home because he was hoping to learn them to rise at first light and make their way home straight away but on a good few occasions he said that he nearly always had at least one sometimes two that would always land that night when pitch black

[eastcoaster]

I think there must be a lot of 'light pollution' or 'borrowed light' where you live as the birds would end up striking something in the dark.

 

I know that on occasions when mine got spooked as darkness approached they didn't fly for long, and as I would expect, had perched up somewhere safe for the night, coming back from different directions, at first light next morning.

 

i`m not suggesting they are flying all night but have seen them clapping at 11 pm and i live out in the countryside it is pitch black here with no street lights . all in safe and well tonight lol