Nipa - Clonmel Race Report On May 3Rd Race

May 12, 2014

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NIPA - Clonmel Race Report on May 3rd Race

Unread postby SteveODea Â» Thu May 08, 2014 10:42 pm

Posted for information purposes....................from the NIPA site

Clonmel Report

Posted on May 8, 2014

the following is a report on Clonmel release on Sat 3rd May:

The race committee took the decision on Thursday night 1st May to racemark on Friday for a possible release in Clonmel on Saturday , this decision was put on the libline and the website.

The convoy arrived in Clonmel at 5.15 am.

The race controller made initial contact with the conveyer and assistant conveyer at 7.00 am at that stage the cloud base was too low to consider a release.

From 7 am the race controller Mr David Campbell liased with his contacts en route, Met Erin and the conveyers continually during the morning.at 11.30 a decision was taken to go for a 12 noon release, the conveyer had indicated the weather at release had improved to allow a liberation provided the route home was clear. the line of flight was rechecked and found to be flyable , strings were cut and it was left to the conveyers to release.

Pigeons were released at 12 noon in a light south west wind conditions were still favourable and the pigeons cleared well. Approximately 7/10 minutes after release a batch returned being pursued and attacked by 2 peregrines. There were no pigeons in the sky at 12.15 pm and the convoy remained on site until 1.45 pm and the weather had remained favourable. On the route home the convoy did not encounter any adverse weather until the outskirts of Dublin at around 4.30 pm.

It has been stated that some travellers were hanging around the release site there were three of them,everything possible was done to try to keep these travellers away from the convoy at release they dived into the birds and may have caught some we simply cant be sure.

We have examined the full video of the release and are in agreement that the release was in order. Independent fanciers from Southern Ireland were on site and reported back to fanciers in the north that they were completely satisfied with the release, and this can be verified.

All involved are extremely sorry and disappointed as to the outcome of this race.

Fred Russell secretary

There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw oneself at the ground and miss.........

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This is a pic of conditions in clonmel 10 mins after lib, it was captioned "what chance did they have" you can see the cab of one of the lorries. Just!

Jake is a friend of mine I think he may be on here! The vid was on a FB group (Up in the sky's with the masters) posted on Saturday shortly after the lib a full minute after release there is birds having to be removed from crates as the doors hadn't dropped, even on a good day what chance would they have!

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paddymac · May 13, 2014

Total disgrace Eugene, the birds should never have been released in that weather. When is NIPA going to realise that they have a duty of care to those birds when they are sent to the race points and not with the attitude of liberate no matter what the weather, they have done it many times before especially with young birds and I'm sure it won't be the last. I was one of the lucky ones as I opted not to send and there are still 1000s of birds awol and a lot of fanciers season is over because of this :angry: :angry: