Well after 7 long nights in the basket the Pau International run by La Colombe Joyeuse liberated the pigeons at 7am UK time Monday morning. With light NW winds predicted most of the route home and possibly some light southerly winds predicted the home end we were hopeful of a good chance of a day pigeon Monday night. The heat did get up during the day but we were still confident if you had a super pigeon in the team the possibility of birds making it into the uk was a possibility and maybe even a top International performance.
With plenty of beer and some fish and chips we sat patiently waiting for the pigeons to arrive. Sadly no birds made it into the UK on the night so it looked like being a tougher ask for the British birds than first expected.
So with an early start at 4am we waited patiently again but early pigeons did not appear so that emphasised the fact the birds held up at the channel and waited for the next morning to cross.
The morning was longer than we would have liked and we finally got our first arrival ‘242’ a widowhood hen at 10.07 for provisional 1st Section, 3rd Open BBC, 3rd Section, 7th Open BICC Pau.
This hen is a pure Jelle Jellema being from a son of ‘Zeus’ x ‘Silke’ x and a daughter of ‘New Jade 1’ x ‘Romee’. ‘242’ scored 20th Section, 76th Grand National NFC Tarbes last year as a yearling.
Our next 3 arrivals came at 11.31, 12.50, 14.54 to score prov 2nd, 3rd, 4th section, 9th, 13th, 23rd Open BBC, and 11th, 15th, 23rd section, 19th, 30th and 51st Open BICC.
The third arrival also flew Tarbes Grand National last year as a yearling and scored 7th Section, 26th Open.
Team wise we were a little disappointed and thought they were a good team and would make a good job of this but it wasn’t to be.
So onto Agen and Barcelona we go!
Well done to Lee and Kevin Buddle for winning the BBC and to Jonathon Palmer for winning the BICC.
With plenty of beer and some fish and chips we sat patiently waiting for the pigeons to arrive. Sadly no birds made it into the UK on the night so it looked like being a tougher ask for the British birds than first expected.
So with an early start at 4am we waited patiently again but early pigeons did not appear so that emphasised the fact the birds held up at the channel and waited for the next morning to cross.
The morning was longer than we would have liked and we finally got our first arrival ‘242’ a widowhood hen at 10.07 for provisional 1st Section, 3rd Open BBC, 3rd Section, 7th Open BICC Pau.
This hen is a pure Jelle Jellema being from a son of ‘Zeus’ x ‘Silke’ x and a daughter of ‘New Jade 1’ x ‘Romee’. ‘242’ scored 20th Section, 76th Grand National NFC Tarbes last year as a yearling.
Our next 3 arrivals came at 11.31, 12.50, 14.54 to score prov 2nd, 3rd, 4th section, 9th, 13th, 23rd Open BBC, and 11th, 15th, 23rd section, 19th, 30th and 51st Open BICC.
The third arrival also flew Tarbes Grand National last year as a yearling and scored 7th Section, 26th Open.
Team wise we were a little disappointed and thought they were a good team and would make a good job of this but it wasn’t to be.
So onto Agen and Barcelona we go!
Well done to Lee and Kevin Buddle for winning the BBC and to Jonathon Palmer for winning the BICC.
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