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, […]
Update 21/07/24
The pigeons have been training again today from the 16 mile point. We are ready to jump up in distance again now, and return to the 21 mile spot tomorrow at 10am. We’ll stay there […]
Update 16/07/24
Good afternoon everyone, Sorry for the delayed update – I have spent the last couple of days driving and collecting pigeons. In total I have picked up 8 pigeons and there are 2 more on […]
Training 10/7/24
The birds went to the same 13 mile spot that we’ve been at all week with no issue. I released at 18.25 into a moderate SW wind, the same as yesterday, the birds came out […]
Update 09/07/24
I thought I may have made a mistake yesterday. I took the birds training, and after I liberated it started to rain, but luckily the birds must have flown through or found a gap. Of […]
Update 05/07/24
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
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
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
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
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 […]