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- Fri Apr 18, 2025 5:03 pm
- Forum: Weather
- Topic: Today's Weather
- Replies: 402
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Re: Today's Weather
Just started raining here in York. Not been a bad day before this.
- Thu Apr 17, 2025 3:41 pm
- Forum: Introduction
- Topic: distance birds
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Re: distance birds
Mark Bulled and Mark Gilbert are certainly 2 of the best. But a great small team fancier has to be Andy Holland from Shipley in section K in the NFC.
- Wed Apr 16, 2025 1:08 pm
- Forum: Chat Racing Pigeons
- Topic: St Alban's Peregrine's
- Replies: 8
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Re: St Alban's Peregrine's
Maybe ,not sure seems a lot of cunning when they don’t seem to need public support anyway they already have it They have the support, but they what to hide the fact that racing pigeons are taken in large numbers. I recall a piece on TV when a Peregrine was nesting at ICI in the North East. The repo...
- Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:44 am
- Forum: Chat Racing Pigeons
- Topic: St Alban's Peregrine's
- Replies: 8
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Re: St Alban's Peregrine's
have to agree with king id say it was the rspb themselves and trying to shift the blame hence the old adage look before you leap Why would they do that though ? These webcams at Peregrine nests OFTEN go off air. The main reason is to remove pigeon rings from them, they just disappear from the nests...
- Mon Apr 14, 2025 2:13 pm
- Forum: Chat Racing Pigeons
- Topic: St Alban's Peregrine's
- Replies: 8
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Re: St Alban's Peregrine's
Only came across this yesterday, so the breeding pair at the church in St Alban's have had there eggs smashed by someone apparently walking across the nest box, didn't show any film of this happening, just said the web cam footage had been stopped, looked at the following comments & pigeon fanc...
- Sun Apr 13, 2025 2:36 pm
- Forum: Chat Racing Pigeons
- Topic: Good Luck
- Replies: 27
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Re: Good Luck
My background is very different. I came from a small town that at its peak had 75+ members in it For the last say 20 years of my racing career there were always 10 or 15 pigeon men stood at the school gates opposite our lofts watching our pigeons arrive. In my experience there's 3 types of pigeon m...
- Fri Apr 11, 2025 4:12 pm
- Forum: Chat Racing Pigeons
- Topic: Guernsey
- Replies: 7
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Re: Guernsey
Shame that, I had the only 2 birds in race time in the York clock station in the NFC, in my first ever YB National race way back in 1988 flying 316 miles.
- Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:16 am
- Forum: Chat Racing Pigeons
- Topic: Bird Flu
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4115
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Re: Bird Flu
The 2 clubs local to me have a license to mark together starting racing this week. ALL members need CPH number and vaccination sheet to send. Is the outbreak in York over? York is in a Mandatory Housing Avian Influenza Prevention Zone. There are 3 outbreak areas around York. See link and zoom in. h...
- Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:25 pm
- Forum: Weather
- Topic: Today's Weather
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Re: Today's Weather
Here in York. Overcast and cool.
- Wed Apr 09, 2025 12:58 pm
- Forum: Chat Racing Pigeons
- Topic: Bird Flu
- Replies: 13
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Re: Bird Flu
The 2 clubs local to me have a license to mark together starting racing this week. ALL members need CPH number and vaccination sheet to send.