Yesterday we had the final old bird race of the season from the Perpignan (Tuchan) International and as has been the way with all channel racing this year another tough race was on the cards.
The convoy was due to be liberated on Friday but due to weather conditions not being ideal they were held over until Monday and liberated at 6am.
There was not much wind throughout France and winds westerly to sw in the channel depending on what side of the country they came in. If they came the east side they would have to battle the wind and it was unlikely you would get birds going up the west side due to the geography of Perpignan so wind assistance was not expected.
However we did keep one eye on the loft Monday night just incase as you never know with pigeons they can surprise you.
There were no day pigeons so it was a 5am start at the loft Tuesday morning.
The weather started off nice in the morning and we even had blue sky and sunshine for a while but that soon turned to full cloud cover and then rain for a lot of the day.
We sent 12 pigeons which consisted of 3 pigeons that already went to the Pau/Tarbes this season and the other 9 had been to Barcelona a month ago. We were
confident in their ability but wondered what Barcelona would have taken out of them.
At 9.20am our blue hen ‘Two Nine One’ came out of the east to provisionally win 1st National flying the 613 mile course with a velocity of 895 ypm. This hen was also 2nd Section, 4th National BICC Perpignan last year so seems to like this race point. She was due to go to Barcelona but we missed sending her and so went to the Tarbes NFC instead and she was 6th pigeon from there scoring 11th Section, 53rd National. Incidentally she had the Tarbes NFC last year before Perpignan and scored 14th Section, 46th National.
Her father is ‘Kanibaal Barcelona’ 1st Province 2500b, 4th International Barcelona 25,750b 2010 and 26th International Perpignan 16,921b 2012.
Her mother is a double granddaughter of ‘Golden Barcelona’ the 2014 Gold Wing winner from Barcelona and father of ‘Southfield Hugo’, ‘Southfield Gold Lady’ and grandfather of ‘Southfield Gold’.
We clocked another 4 pigeons during the day at 11.33am, 12.53pm, 19.13pm and 20.22pm and so the overall team performance stood at 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th & 8th Section and 1st, 7th, 10th, 21st and 23rd National.
Our second on the clock is a special hen and she has pulled out all the stops this year.
She returned at 11.33 to score 2nd Section, 7th National but also she has won the Greater Distance Single Bird NFC as she was our nomination.
This is not her only good performance this year as last month she was 1st Section, 1st Open BBC Barcelona and 2nd Section, 2nd National BICC Barcelona 698 miles.
She is from a son of Kees Droog’s ‘Blue Champion’ x ‘Rozalynn’ paired to a daughter of Jelle’s ‘Jack’ & ‘Dafne’
The rest were as follows:
3rd - prov 4th section, 10th National
From a son of ‘New Laureaat’ 1st International Barcelona and a daughter of ‘Golden Barcelona’.
Last month scored 8th Section, 13th Open BBC Barcelona, 14th Section, 22nd National BICC Barcelona.
4th - prov 7th section, 21st National
a grandchild of ‘Southfield Iron Man’ 1st National BICC Perpignan 2018, 2nd National BICC Marseille 2018, 7th National BICC Palamos 2018 x ‘Southfield Dark Star’ 1st National BICC St Vincent and also a grandchild of ‘Golden Barcelona’.
Last month scored 4th section, 6th Open BBC Barcelona and 5th section, 9th National BICC Barcelona.
5th - prov 8th section, 23rd National
father is ‘Southfield King’ 1st Grand National NFC Pau 2020 paired to a daughter of ‘Lloyd’ 1st International Barcelona 2018.
Last month scored 5th section, 7th Open BBC Barcelona and 7th section, 12th National BICC Barcelona.
With three more arrivals early this morning we now have 8 from 12 home.
The convoy was due to be liberated on Friday but due to weather conditions not being ideal they were held over until Monday and liberated at 6am.
There was not much wind throughout France and winds westerly to sw in the channel depending on what side of the country they came in. If they came the east side they would have to battle the wind and it was unlikely you would get birds going up the west side due to the geography of Perpignan so wind assistance was not expected.
However we did keep one eye on the loft Monday night just incase as you never know with pigeons they can surprise you.
There were no day pigeons so it was a 5am start at the loft Tuesday morning.
The weather started off nice in the morning and we even had blue sky and sunshine for a while but that soon turned to full cloud cover and then rain for a lot of the day.
We sent 12 pigeons which consisted of 3 pigeons that already went to the Pau/Tarbes this season and the other 9 had been to Barcelona a month ago. We were
confident in their ability but wondered what Barcelona would have taken out of them.
At 9.20am our blue hen ‘Two Nine One’ came out of the east to provisionally win 1st National flying the 613 mile course with a velocity of 895 ypm. This hen was also 2nd Section, 4th National BICC Perpignan last year so seems to like this race point. She was due to go to Barcelona but we missed sending her and so went to the Tarbes NFC instead and she was 6th pigeon from there scoring 11th Section, 53rd National. Incidentally she had the Tarbes NFC last year before Perpignan and scored 14th Section, 46th National.
Her father is ‘Kanibaal Barcelona’ 1st Province 2500b, 4th International Barcelona 25,750b 2010 and 26th International Perpignan 16,921b 2012.
Her mother is a double granddaughter of ‘Golden Barcelona’ the 2014 Gold Wing winner from Barcelona and father of ‘Southfield Hugo’, ‘Southfield Gold Lady’ and grandfather of ‘Southfield Gold’.
We clocked another 4 pigeons during the day at 11.33am, 12.53pm, 19.13pm and 20.22pm and so the overall team performance stood at 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th & 8th Section and 1st, 7th, 10th, 21st and 23rd National.
Our second on the clock is a special hen and she has pulled out all the stops this year.
She returned at 11.33 to score 2nd Section, 7th National but also she has won the Greater Distance Single Bird NFC as she was our nomination.
This is not her only good performance this year as last month she was 1st Section, 1st Open BBC Barcelona and 2nd Section, 2nd National BICC Barcelona 698 miles.
She is from a son of Kees Droog’s ‘Blue Champion’ x ‘Rozalynn’ paired to a daughter of Jelle’s ‘Jack’ & ‘Dafne’
The rest were as follows:
3rd - prov 4th section, 10th National
From a son of ‘New Laureaat’ 1st International Barcelona and a daughter of ‘Golden Barcelona’.
Last month scored 8th Section, 13th Open BBC Barcelona, 14th Section, 22nd National BICC Barcelona.
4th - prov 7th section, 21st National
a grandchild of ‘Southfield Iron Man’ 1st National BICC Perpignan 2018, 2nd National BICC Marseille 2018, 7th National BICC Palamos 2018 x ‘Southfield Dark Star’ 1st National BICC St Vincent and also a grandchild of ‘Golden Barcelona’.
Last month scored 4th section, 6th Open BBC Barcelona and 5th section, 9th National BICC Barcelona.
5th - prov 8th section, 23rd National
father is ‘Southfield King’ 1st Grand National NFC Pau 2020 paired to a daughter of ‘Lloyd’ 1st International Barcelona 2018.
Last month scored 5th section, 7th Open BBC Barcelona and 7th section, 12th National BICC Barcelona.
With three more arrivals early this morning we now have 8 from 12 home.
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