Young Birds 2024 Loft News

Firstly, a quick report on Hotspot 1 from Wetherby 77 miles. The birds were liberated at 8am into broken cloud into a SW wind around 11mph; they cleared well and headed for home. 65 birds […]

RPRA One Loft Race Hot Spot 1 took place today from Wetherby (77 m 152 yds) – 141 birds were liberated at 8am into a slight south westerly breeze with broken cloud. The first 10 […]

Good evening, After studying the weather forecast for the scheduled first hotspot for the past week, I have made the decision to postpone it from tomorrow Monday 5th August until Wednesday the 7th. Monday’s forecast […]

1 ROYAL DOCKS LOFT GB-24-C-55050 2 ADRIAN ENGLISH & DTR GB-24-V-98912 3 FIRE FLYERS 66 GB-24-B-37705 4 FOUR COCKS GB-24-X-26378 5 K AMBLER GB-24-X-13998 6 P KENT & SON GB-24-C-74452 7 THEM OVER THERE GB-24-N-10742 […]

The pigeons made light work of yesterdays 30 miler, all returning almost together. I have held off with today’s trainer due to poor visibility this morning, and now it happens to be a bit too […]

The prize fund for the 2024 One Loft Race, based on 541 entries, is as follows:

Good morning. Today sees us into August. Time is flying, and we are only 4 days from Hotspot 1 from Wetherby, 77 miles. There has been a change to the plan, due mainly to the […]

Good morning, Yesterday the birds went for a little 16 mile fly, and made light work of it – they were all home in 21 minutes. It was quite warm, with a south westerly wind, […]

Since my last Blog post on Tuesday, the birds have been to Caenby Corner (30miles) twice. Both trainers were brilliant, with the birds returning in one group on both occasions. This was not recorded on […]

Yesterday the birds took part in trainer no 11, from 21 miles. 143 birds were basketed and 143 birds arrived home, loving life and clapping around. Today we revisited the same location for trainer 12, […]