Update 05/07/24

July 5th, 2024

Good evening everyone. Firstly a couple of things to point out about Benzing – all of our trainings are measured in miles, but for some reason it says kilometres, and 511 is not the number […]

Training 03/07/24

July 3rd, 2024

Training was cancelled today, due to low cloud and drizzle for the majority of the day. We will be going tomorrow morning, clock on, all together from the 5 mile spot. If it goes well, […]

UPDATE 02/07/24

July 2nd, 2024

Today we went for our first trainer, from 5 miles. The pigeons were released from 5pm (delayed because of the weather), in crates of 30 at a time, allowing each group to clear before releasing […]

UPDATE 01/07/24

July 1st, 2024

All is looking well for the first trainer tomorrow morning; we will be basketing the birds once it’s gone dark, in a peaceful environment to  keep stress levels down. I have put all of the […]

Training Monday 01/07/24

June 30th, 2024

Good Evening, The plan was to go training first thing tomorrow morning, but rain is forecast and I’m currently writing this from Lincoln A&E. My little girl has had an accident. I was going to […]

Training Update 28/06/24

June 28th, 2024

We have been unable to follow the training schedule this week, unfortunately. The temperature was almost 30 degrees on Monday to Thursday, which is not nice for the pigeons, although they have still flown well […]

Training update 25/06/24

June 25th, 2024

No training again today – the temperature reached 30 degrees at lunchtime, and the same is forecast again tomorrow, but expected to drop to 19 on Thursday, so at the moment we’re aiming for Thursday […]

Update 18/06/24

June 18th, 2024

Afternoon, The loft list is now up on Benzing – click here to access it. 378 birds were hand scanned yesterday, one returner today and 2 rings which were not working, but this is rectified […]

Update 17/06/24

June 17th, 2024

Good afternoon. Apologies for the lack of communication. Two weeks ago the pigeons were all flying well, and we were looking at starting to train. This came to an abrupt halt when I went up […]