Waiting for the Winner RPRA

seems like a good crowd ,would have gone myself but we were racing ourselves that morning ,bit of a mess the tail of that bird must be the winner i guess

looks like its moulting to me darren ...........

Wonder if all the people watching maybe make the pigeons do a round, around the loft.

Watched them land but sure I saw shadows come and go before the first birds landed.

I thought exactly the same I would imagine a few on the beer getting a bit excited ,they are not far from the loft about 60 ft I suppose ...would be unusual for them to see a crowd their but never saw any taking off once landed

oldstrain wrote:

seems like a good crowd ,would have gone myself but we were racing ourselves that morning ,bit of a mess the tail of that bird must be the winner i guess

Look at the pigeon it wanted to be in the loft not in a picture and i bet it was difficult to handle and Jeremy had to take an extra hold

looks like a fan in his hand ffs

oldstrain wrote:

looks like a fan in his hand ffs

Maybe     a wee bit of work required etc     on the Presentation side I suggest there O/S . Bird certainly deserves better I suggest for what it achieved on the day as such.

looks like just after the race ,goodness me leave the bird in the loft take a pic on the perch ,should not be wrestling with it ...honestly

I would be slightly annoyed were it my pigeon having just flown that distance and in testing conditions, although he obviously thought he was doing the right thing.

Can see no point in all the photographs in the BHW and the RP myself.


Regards.

looks like a handful of feathers, doesnt look a dark yb, so i assume it was a late arrival to the loft as its just moulting round the neck , not as a dark bird would look like .

just goes to show, its not just the big, nicely moulted ybs that look like yearlings that win, nice lookers arnt necessarily always good uns.