New Electricity Pylons

[Walter swanston]

There is presently a new row of very high electricity pylons under construction a few miles south of Moffat.They march roughly south east to north west and their presence and the associated construction is a definite hazard while training.they may be a problem when racing starts for young birds for imidland and other Feds.Also next year when construction is over they will provide excellent vantage points for peregrines.

[JohnQuinn]

Just seems to get more difficult for the doos year on year Walter, between Mobile phone masts, wind farms and now new Pylons en route. Our sport is slowly but surely getting more difficult by the year, but i live in hope that Eventually we will have teams who become used to these hazards and the hazards have a lot less of an impact on our doos.

[yeboah]

There is presently a new row of very high electricity pylons under construction a few miles south of Moffat.They march roughly south east to north west and their presence and the associated construction is a definite hazard while training.they may be a problem when racing starts for young birds for imidland and other Feds.Also next year when construction is over they will provide excellent vantage points for peregrines.

The peregrine site is only 500yds to the east watched the mother and her young a week past Sunday ,the young are flying as well as the adults at present they have used these pylons for years now the worst pair that Walter and myself have to deal with,I have asked on many occasions for the pair to be moved to a new location this could be done quite easily when they net the adults to ring the young this has to be done at this site as it is a very very steep gourge ,have been told see what they can do but you guessed they do fek all ,A nightmare pair with the extra pylons now even worse watched 24-7.