Almond Valley & Ayrshire Federation

abbeypap · August 4, 2012

Had a great if very tiring morning at Stubbs Camp Hawick where both transporters liberated there pigeons. I went out at 5pm last night to pickup all the race marked pigeons in the lower half of Ayrshire, was great to meet some more members of the fed and say Hello. With over 3400 pigeons some had to be transported to the lib site by the trailer which I got the job of driving. Not knowing the layout of the camp we went up to the top of the hill the road was awful and we turned back and parked up on some hard standing we found among the gorse. Spotted the Almond Valley transporter down the hill a bit so I went down to say Good morning, and it was a fine morning for liberating pigeons. I took some pictures of the area and video of the liberation's ( movie maker I am not :-) Almond valley went up at 7am and cleared no problem, Ayrshire went up at 7.30am and other than them breaking into smaller groups they cleared no problem, ok one batch of about 100 hung around for a wee while but they soon decided to shake a tail feather and head for home. Thanks to the driver of the AV transporter for helping me on the trailer :-) can't remember your name but always great to have some help and much appreciated.

I think I've added a picture of each tansporter this morning