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L.J Parkinson - 27-04-23

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L.J Parkinson

The pigeons had settled a treat to their new loft and apart from a couple of broken eggs they started to lay on the third day in their nest bowls. I was then thinking this was a good sign for getting them into the sky so with the rain lightly coming down on the Sunday morning I decided to drop the doors and let them make any decisions for me. I felt I needed to move them faster than I would have done because time was not on my side, this was only their fourth day in the new loft. In hindsight I should have given them a few more days, but me, being in a hurry as usual, moved faster than I probably should have done. I watched the first few come out going down onto the lawn, while a couple more took to the sky. I decided to leave them in peace and go and do a few jobs that were awaiting my attention, after all there was no point in standing there, they were on their way, so the decision had been made. I was close by so I could look out at any time and see what was going on, when I did all looked fine. Only a couple of minutes later I looked and there were no pigeons to be seen so I went out to see a few on the house roof and a few in the sky. I tried calling them down off the house, but they were content preening themselves in the light drizzle. It was an anxious wait to see how many would be in the loft by the end of the day. I was then thinking what percentage I would like back in the loft when darkness arrived. Ideally 100% but that was never going to happen, so I was thinking 50% and some coming back over the next couple of days. Well, when I closed there were about 30% in the loft and three sitting on the house not even looking like moving, they had settled in for the night. Monday morning, I woke up thinking there would be more perched on the landing board waiting to go in for breakfast, not one and even the three on the roof from the night before had disappeared. That’s where I am up to so I am now going to leave these notes at that and start to clean out and keep searching the sky to see if anymore decide that they would be better on a good thing with me than wandering the countryside.

I went in for a brew and was talking to Elizabeth about the pigeons being out, she pointed through the skylight in the conservatory that there were pigeons sitting on the corner of this house. I said that “With them being so close and can clearly see the loft and birds they would go to the new loft” It then occurred to me that they were looking down at the narrow loft down the side of the house where they were originally housed. Considering they could not see out of that loft, not even through the polycarbonate roof, they would not know it was there. To me this cements the point I have been making while they have been housed there and that is even through frosted glass they know the general area where they have been housed. Pity there isn’t a door or trap where I could get them back into the loft and move them physically to their new home. This loft has been a bit of a nuisance with them being attracted to it, pigeons are far from being daft, they are cleverer than they are given credit for. Anyway, by the end of the second day there were 16 in the loft and two wanting to go in the loft down the side of the house but due to where it is and how it is set out, they are never going to get in there. A mealy and a Chequer pied also keep appearing on the end of the house looking down but will not go near the new loft.

old birds enjoying their freedon 

old birds enjoying their freedon

Racing

The second weekend for the local fanciers and the first for those racing in the South West Cheshire Fed, Cheltenham was a fast race with vels passing the mile a minute mark. The 7 member clubs all entered birds into this race which resulted in 50 members sending 845 birds that were liberated at 13.30 in a light southerly wind. The master himself Joe Glover has done it again with 1st club 1st fed recording a velocity of 1825ypm, taking the first 4 in the Hankelow club. Not sure whether this is Joe’s 7th or 8th decade of winning 1st prizes, will have to ask the question. 2nd & 3rdfed are Dickens & Wilkinson from the Middlewich 5B with two on 1807ypm. Dave Pritchard takes the next two in the club with two on 1777ypm, his first being 10th fed. Crewe West Ends Colin Lindop has been winning for many years and puts an awful lot into the pigeons, this week taking the first three in the club collecting 4th 6th 7th fed on 1798/1787 (2) ypm with 4th in the club going to Bob Humphries on 1780ypm. Greenbank winners Turner & Son also take the first three in the club along with 5th fed recording vels of 1798/1776/1734ypm. 4th in the club goes to John Peever om 1729ypm. It’s never a surprise to see the Hitchin family in Winsford topping the list, in this race Mike 7 Keith Hitchin take the first 4 in the club and also 9th fed recording vels of 1777/1769/1745 (2) ypm. Other clubs competing in the fed are Duddon FC where the top three go to Adamson & O’Hanlon clocking up 1714/1711/1710ypm followed by JL Evans & S Wright on 1691ypm. That leaves the Halmer End club where P & E Mainwaring take the first two with vels of 1746/1739ypm ahead of C Gill on 1709/1707ypm. The Mid Cheshire fed on their second race of the season saw 104 members enter 1,877 birds that were liberated at 12-45 in a south west wind. 1st 2nd 10th section and open go to Mr & Mrs J Jones from the Kingsway club with 2 on 1829 while the other was on 1815ypm. Earlstown winners W & P Brown took the next 4 positions recording vels of 3 on 1823 on1822ypm, sounding as if they were dropping in rather fast. We then have Lymm FC winner Ray Lunt who saw two clock up 1823ypm plus a third on 1819ypm. They certainly weren’t spread out with three fanciers filling the top ten positions in some tough competition. Other club winners are Curtis-Wall-Lunt at Acton Bridge taking the top three places. J Stewart wins the Cheshire FC with the Frodsham winner once again being Sydney Rogers & Son while S Kennedy takes the top three positions in the Leigh & Atherton club. We now move over to the Newton FC where C Johnson & Son take the red card as do R Hayes & J Pickstock in the Runcorn DHS. Tyldesley sees R&D Gaskell once again taking the top three with Ashton in Makerfield H winners being A Smallman & Son. Tommy Hulme & Son lead the way in the Greenbank club with Peter & Dawn Latham topping the list in the Middlewich FC.C Bell tops the list in the Rudheath WMHS while L Owen takes the first three in the Sankey Bridge HS leaving Dave Everill to top the list in the Wrinehill HS and is also 1st in the South section. I took a hard look at the result and there are some top fanciers in the fed and they haven’t got going yet.

Les Parkinson. 11 Rushton Drive, Middlewich, Cheshire, CW10 0NJ.
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