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Its a fair point Andy

On the one hand I'd like to say "It doesn't make much difference"

On the other hand would I want my birds taking flight 20 secs later than someone else's? No I would not

When I'm training once the flaps are down in 20 secs my birds are probably 600 yards away - thats the reality

MIL wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:51 am Its a fair point Andy

On the one hand I'd like to say "It doesn't make much difference"

On the other hand would I want my birds taking flight 20 secs later than someone else's? No I would not

When I'm training once the flaps are down in 20 secs my birds are probably 600 yards away - thats the reality

I would think that it could certainly make a difference from our short races of only 34 miles.

are you saying all the birds hung around the race point Mike

Trev what fed are you in

George and Morgan wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:22 am are you saying all the birds hung around the race point Mike

In Trevor's race?

It's the most likely explanation

Pigeons don't fly at 900 yards a minute on a 60 ml race

Even a tough race into a 20mph headwind I'd epect them to do 1250ypm

So time has been lost somewhere - and given its the 1st YB race its the first experience they'll have had of being on a wagon, away overnight and libbed with hundreds of birds

Andy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:57 am
I would think that it could certainly make a difference from our short races of only 34 miles.

I might explain 20 secs - but if someone were 3 minutes behind then that's over 2 minutes down

We had 980 yard race from 88 miles
15th fed was 500 yom
No one could work it out to the convoyer reported the birds got hit by two peregrine attacks as they left the lorry then just went into a ball and flew around site for 30 plus mins

this is what i asked Trev what was the convoyer report did birds go up at correct time

Thanks for your interest and comments guys, they are much appreciated.
We didn't get a conveyer report, just that they were liberated into a light South West wind, there is a video of the liberation which unfortunately I can't put on here, it was cloudy on site, the birds took a little while to start coming out of the baskets and did were still circling when the video ended but that was only seconds so I don't how long they did circle for. When you look at the result, although the birds were slow they obviously stayed together in batches as all clubs, once again, clocked in birds around the same time. The birds also got dragged all the the place as most members had birds come back in all afternoon, we also had a couple of our club members have birds reported, on Saturday, the other side of Portsmouth which suggests that they had possibly got in with other birds going that way. The really strange thing though is that although very slow, most people had good returns !!
Let's see what happens this week, I imagine we will have twice as many birds as a lot of members didn't send last week.

George and Morgan wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:22 am Trev what fed are you in

"Sussex North Road" George