Do We Give Our Pigeons Enough Credit

[john cumming]

I have a pigeon su 12 ne 5931 a yearling blue cock that i lost on a training toss 2 weeks befre racing started it was only a ten miles flight and the birds had the wind on their tails so in theory should have been home in minutes, but for some reason the birds hit some trouble of a kind, that particular training toss i was missing 23 birds at night fall and over the next week or so they worked back until i was missing 8, including the blue cock and he had not been raced as a younster only trained up to 25 miles, i gets a fone call a few days later from a guy in a place called hoopness in the very north of shetland saying he had the blue cock in his barn? but says it had escaped and couldnt recapture it, so he and his daughter fed and watered the bird over a weeks, i contacted him on tuesday morning and he said to me it took off earlier in the day and he had not seen it again, thinking thats the last i have heard of this bird i goes out and lets the hens out for their evening fly, shakes them in and the first bird through the trap is yes you guessed it my blue yearling cock su 12 ne 5931 dancing about among the hens like he had never been away, there must be a good 100 miles + of open water between the moray coast line and sumburgh head on shetland let alone the north end of the islands, and thats a bird thats never been raced and only ever had a few training tosses, makes you wonder just where they can get to, and for me i dont think we give the birds enough credit,

 

 

 

John

 

 

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[peter2010]

It's good to hear what happens to them and even better with an outcome like that when they make their own way hame atb

[Guest GAV]

GOOD WEE STORY WELL DONE THAT DOO :emoticon-0137-clapping:

[andy Burgess]

great story John , look after him , i bet he wont get lost in a hurry next season

[Kyleakin Lofts]

Excellent result, one to watch.