Well what an end to the Old bird season. The Perpignan birds were finally released Monday morning at 6.15am after 7 nights in the basket due to bad weather holdovers. Nothing made it into the UK last night so early birds were expected this morning. Alas the British weather had something to say about it as it started raining in Windsor at about 7am and did not let up all day.
This bad weather obviously made the race a tougher ask for the British pigeons and at 10.25am we clocked our game blue hen to provisionally take 1st Open BICC covering the 635 miles in just over twenty and a half hours. She looked very wet but otherwise in good condition considering the time in the basket and the long journey home finishing in the rain. ‘Three eight four’ is a grandchild of ‘Sumerian Fighter’ 1st International Barcelona 2017.
This hen was also 3rd Section, 7th Open National Flying Club Tarbes this season so she certainly puts in the effort.
This performance was very welcome at Southfield after the very odd St Vincent race we had and just goes to reinforce the good decision we made this year to change the old birds over to Natural for the long ones.
This bad weather obviously made the race a tougher ask for the British pigeons and at 10.25am we clocked our game blue hen to provisionally take 1st Open BICC covering the 635 miles in just over twenty and a half hours. She looked very wet but otherwise in good condition considering the time in the basket and the long journey home finishing in the rain. ‘Three eight four’ is a grandchild of ‘Sumerian Fighter’ 1st International Barcelona 2017.
This hen was also 3rd Section, 7th Open National Flying Club Tarbes this season so she certainly puts in the effort.
This performance was very welcome at Southfield after the very odd St Vincent race we had and just goes to reinforce the good decision we made this year to change the old birds over to Natural for the long ones.
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