Rubbish weekend

[Devo1956]

This is the time that if there is a window in the weather, they have to be ready at the liberation site. Split seconds can change the whole race, good birds will always master their flight home.

[NeilA]

I’m not sending as I’m done for the year apart from one thing I want to try
But I think my fed will have a good race looks ok Yorkshire to London above that not so good

[Trev]

Looks like a rubbish weekend weather wise. The birds on their way to Fraserburgh doesn't look like they'll get them away till Monday unless forecast changes. When will summer arrive?

I thought summer in the UK was usually on a Tuesday.....

[Trev]

Looks like a rubbish weekend weather wise. The birds on their way to Fraserburgh doesn't look like they'll get them away till Monday unless forecast changes. When will summer arrive?

I thought summer in the UK was usually on a Tuesday.....

Trouble is we never know which Tuesday

[Trev]

There's showers both days but I'm sure you could race tomorrow but most feds are racing Sunday now ,the amount of rain they show in some areas if u sneeze there be more water, unless on the weather app its green then that's real rain all these blue marks on map are f all its like 0.1mm of rain If a pigeon refuses to race through that there bloody rubbish.

I quite agree mate, we do mollycoddle the birds these days I don't know how the wild birds, or indeed nature itself, cope
It's not as if it's a long race, we are only talking 108miles for crying out load

[Trev]

Well after a long debate on the federation group telegram this morning it's been decided that we leave things as they are and the birds will go when the conveyer and race controller think it's right to do so
I know everyone blames the cost on why they want to avoid holdovers, but it seems to me that the modern widowhood flier just doesn't want their birds in the basket for more than the one night !!

[MIL]

Isn't it more the case of making use of the technology available to us these days ?

[Trev]

Isn't it more the case of making use of the technology available to us these days ?

It is mate but sadly I'm not sure that the modern technology is any more accurate than the old methods !!!
You can look at several different apps and they all give you different answers how can that be when they all use the same satellite's
The old farmers and gardeners used to predict the weather better than technology does today !!

[Steve Howells]

Isn't it more the case of making use of the technology available to us these days ?

It is mate but sadly I'm not sure that the modern technology is any more accurate than the old methods !!!
You can look at several different apps and they all give you different answers how can that be when they all use the same satellite's
The old farmers and gardeners used to predict the weather better than technology does today !!

They pretty much got it right for Eastern Scotland today. Fraserburgh hold over due to low cloud and large bands of rain along flight path. Trouble is convoyers can’t win, if they put them up when there’s rain about and it’s a bad race they get vilified, if they delay basketing by a day and the weather turns out better than expected they equally vilified.

[NeilA]

Isn't it more the case of making use of the technology available to us these days ?

It is mate but sadly I'm not sure that the modern technology is any more accurate than the old methods !!!
You can look at several different apps and they all give you different answers how can that be when they all use the same satellite's
The old farmers and gardeners used to predict the weather better than technology does today !!

They pretty much got it right for Eastern Scotland today. Fraserburgh hold over due to low cloud and large bands of rain along flight path. Trouble is convoyers can’t win, if they put them up when there’s rain about and it’s a bad race they get vilified, if they delay basketing by a day and the weather turns out better than expected they equally vilified.

Hopefully things will improve tomorrow