Thanks Buster.
I thought they would do well, the pigeons are in lovely order, but Ooh, the drag is so far against me. I thought that if I got one near the top of the result I would be pleased.
I sent 10, 5 cocks and 5 hens. ( I know the result says 9 pigeons, it's wrong.) At the club I passed the little mealy cock, 659/22, to a bloke to basket. As I did I blew the feathers off his breast, which was shiny and pink.
"Mine aren't like that", he said. I thought to myself, why are you sending them then?
Anyway there was a late liberation to avoid the big Melbourne federation again, it was clear and sunny and cold. Very light breeze. I thought about an hour, give or take, and settled down to watch for them coming back from the other way. I glanced up to see the mealy speed in on the line of flight and drop, bang! Good boy!
He's obviously come in a straight line. I thought that is a very good fly by a late bred on his own. Especially when I didn't see another one for 20 minutes.
So, yes, he's won the race but I have not seen 7
including 6 that went the last two weeks.
The blokes down at Kyneton, on the long leg, have been cleaning up the last couple of weeks, miles behind this week, and a couple of flyers never saw a bird for a couple of hours.
Something has gone wrong, I think. I reckon the Melbourne pigeons have broken up and a group of them have crossed ours.
My mealy cock is either pretty good or bloody lucky. I think it might be a bit of the former.
