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 […]

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 […]

Good Morning, Today was scheduled to be our first trainer from 5 miles, but it is 26 degrees now (9.25am), and it takes a couple hours to basket the birds. It is expected to be […]

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 […]

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 […]

Good afternoon everyone, Firstly, apologies for the lack of communication: I’ve been struggling slightly with the technology. We are now CLOSED for entries and have a final entry number of 546. This is 36.4% of […]

The pigeons will now be all injected and have ETS rings fitted next weekend (the new rings arrived yesterday), and a loft list will therefore be published a week on Monday. The first 250ish pigeons […]

Good morning all. If you look at the key dates you will see the race program has had some alterations. We have been unable to get a liberation from Otterburn (172 miles) on the planned […]

Today’s intake via the couriers takes us to over 400 pigeons in the loft now. There are still many more pledged, but still plenty of space so send your entries in. The birds have not […]

All pigeons at the loft have now been updated on to the Benzing system, and every pigeon which arrived at the loft is still here. There are still 3 weeks for you to send your […]