Federation News and Updates
20/07/26 – LOCAL TRAINING
Following a collaboration between Dave Mitchell and the Milton club, Dave will be using the Milton trailer to provide local fanciers wishing to train their birds north with the opportunity twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesday until further notice.
Pick up will be at the Tax Office car park at 7am. It will be on a first come, first served basis as birdage will be limited to the capacity of the trailer (around 330 birds). The cost is set at 30p per bird.
For this week only, to allow for cleaning and maintenance, Dave will be training on Thursday and Friday. All this is of course weather permitting. Initially there will be two release points, one at Catherington sports field car park and then on to West Meon for those wanting to go a little further. This will change this after the first week to move further on.
Dave would like to thank the members of the Milton club for allowing him this opportunity to help local fanciers with their training.
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Upper Heyford 1 convoyers report
Finished loading 21:30arrived at Upper Heyford at 23:00 watered birds. called lee at 07:00the line of flight was good, on site is good strong west . We both decided to go at 09:45.
Liberated 09:45 all cleared well heading towards home
Hope you all have a good race
Upper Heyford 2 convoyers report
Finished loading 21:30arrived at Upper Heyford at 23:00 watered birds. called lee at 07:00the line of flight was good, just waiting for other fed to liberate on our line of flight. on site is good with a very light sw wind . We both decided to go at 10:00
Liberated 10:00 all cleared well heading towards home
Hope you all have a good race
Upper Heyford 3 convoyers report
Finished loading 21:30arrived at 23:30 at 23:00 watered birds. called lee at 07:00the line of flight broken cloud cover. On site with no wind and full cloud cover . Called lee at 08:30, We both decided to move to Upper Heyford it wasn’t looking like it was going to clear. Arrived at Upper Heyford watered birds
Liberated 10:00 into a light ssw wind all cleared well heading towards home
Hope you all have a good race
Rugby convoyers report
Finished loading 21:30arrived at rugby at 23:30 watered birds. called lee at 06:00the line of flight was good. on site is good with a very light e wind . We both decided to go at 07:00
Liberated 07:00 all cleared well heading towards home
Hope you all have a good race
Leicester convoyers report
Finished loading at 21:30. Arrived at Leicester at 24:00 watered birds. Phoned lee at 06:00 good on site, we had full sun with No wind,line of flight is good so we both decided to go for 06:30
Liberated birds at 06:30 very light wise wind birds cleared well in one batch
Hope you all have a good race
Worksop convoyers report
Finished loading at 21:30. Arrived at Worksop at 01:30 watered birds. Phoned lee at 05;30 all good on site, we had full sun no wind . line of flight is good so we both decided to go for 06:00
Liberated birds at 06:00 No wind birds cleared site in one batch.
Hope you all have a good race
Wetherby convoyers report
Finished loading at 20:30. Arrived at wetherby at 02:00watered birds. Phoned lee at 05:15all good on site, we had full sun with no wind. line of flight is good so we both decided to go for 05:30.
Liberated birds at 05:30 very light sw wind birds cleared well heading towards home
Hope you all have a good race
Rugby 1 conyoyers report
Finished loading 20:30arrived at rugby at 22:30 watered birds. called lee at 05:15the line of flight was good. on site is good with a very light sw wind . We both decided to go at 05:45
Liberated 05:45 all cleared well heading towards home
Hope you all have a good race
Hexham convoyers report
Finished loading at 22:30. We arrived at the truck stop at Rotherham and watered birds. Friday arrived at Hexham let birds rest for about an hour, then fed/watered birds. Saturday Lee called 06:30 on site was full cloud cover with no signs of it improving, with a very strong sw wind. Lee called later, there’s no improvement on site so we both decided to holdover. it’s supposed to be a better day tomorrow. We fed and put water on topping up water throughout the day.
Sunday lee called at 05:15 line of flight was good, on site was full sun no clouds . We both decided to go for 06:00 liberation
Liberated at 06:00 into a very light w wind birds cleared immediately
Upper Heyford 4 convoyers report
Finished loading at 21:30. Arrived at Leicester at 24:00 watered birds. Phoned lee at 06:00 not good site, we had full cloud cover the of flight is the same with some rain. Didn’t look like it was going to improve so we both decided to move to upper Heyford.
Liberated birds at 10:30 very light sw wind birds cleared well in one batch
Hope you all have a good race
Rugby 2 convoyers report
Finished loading 21:30arrived at rugby at 23:30 watered birds. called lee at 06:00the line of flight was good. on site is good with a very light wsw wind . We both decided to go at 06:45
Liberated 06:45 all cleared well heading towards home
Hope you all have a good race