2007
We didn’t set the alarm too early; because it wasn’t a very clear night
and there were some showers in the Netherlands, so we were almost
certain that the pigeons would not fly throughout the night.
At one point we woke up from our sleep by the various alarms, which are
on the loft and we looked on the SMS report on our telephone. There was
one pigeon from St. Vincent clocked at 4 am.
This particular performance was done by a 3 year old (carrying an old
ring) female pigeon, which had a nest of 4 days old.
Before the race she was looking very healthy. Not too heavy but just
right.
Last year she lost her male and was chased from her nest by her
neighbours, she found a new male on the ground but we noticed that her
performances were not as good as before.
But I thought this pigeon can surely perform better and this year she
got a better place on in the loft, you could see that she became more
satisfied again. According to the current neutralisation calculation she
was 2nd National St. Vincent.
“Tweety”
a not too large but in every way perfect pigeon.
Montauban.
First we didn’t want to join this inserted National overnight fond
flight, until a week before the race. On a beautiful summer day we sat
under the sunshade and said to each other: shall we participate? Because
of the beautiful weather we were looking forward to it and decided to go
for it.
We resumed the daily training, however the first days the pigeons didn’t
feel like it so much. Luckily, the last days before the race, they flew
through the air as if there wasn’t anything in life they rather did.
It was the race with the best weather conditions of the year and our
pigeons were really in the mood that race. We got 4 pigeons ranking in
the first 10 in the Sector 4 and our first pigeon arrived around 14:37
and won the 1st Nat. Montauban Sector 4.
This 4 years old dark, female pigeon was taken from a 15 days old nest
and had only missed once on the night flights.
What stroked about her was that when her wing opened it made a nodded
sound. This problem was there for years, but after coming home of this
Montauban the sound was gone.
“De Montauban”
is een halfzus van “’t Ruffecje” en is een sterk gespierde duif.
2005
I get out of bed, dress up and look out of the window to see that a
pigeon arrives, lands on the railing and goes inside through the flap.
Immediatly I recognize her as the pigeon that I found four weeks ago at
the night on the roof . This is the same bird from Ruffec and is now
flying the first Nat. Ruffec Sector 4.
“‘t Ruffecje”
is an attentive particular dark female pigeon that will always be close
to you as long as you are in the pigeon loft.
2001
Last year, after moving from Wijckel to Beam, we had a top performance
on St. Vincent, with 10 from 61 pigeons in the Sector 4, one first
clocked.
That particular Saturday we sat on our porch to wait for the pigeons
from St. Vincent. About twenty minutes to 1 pm a pigeon came from the
north east and lands on the flap. It was the 5 years old scratch female
pigeon that flew last year the 16e Nat. St. Vincent S. 4 and flies at
the moment the 1e National St. Vincent Sector with a 3 days old child. I
didn’t expect
“De St.Vincent”
to be first at this flight, because I found the colour on the breast a
little too blue, but that doesn’t say much.
1998
On Saturday morning, after celebrating my 34th birthday on Friday night
till early in the morning, at almost 8 am the alarm went. While walking
downstairs I first checked the TV to see the first reports of sector 2
and 3 on teletext. This is an early one, I thought, faster than the one
from sector 2. Walking to the sack I was thinking: it must be our first
enrolled. She was exactly how I like to see them, round but also light.
I looked on the Electronics bell system and saw it was her, but she had
already been clocked at 7.50 am, so I needed to run to report the pigeon
within 15 minutes at the NIC. I was just on time.
This 3 years old dark scratch female pigeon did fly before as a one year
old on a heavy Bergerac an 11th in Sector 4 and was coupled at 1998 with
one of our better males. When her ex, from 2 years ago, lost his female
pigeon, she left her present male to continue with her ex. She flew with
a 2 days old the 1e National Bergerac Sector 4 and became the 3rd of the
Netherlands.
“De Bergerac”
is a very attentive pigeon, good muscled and easy with contact.
In 1995 we had the Dutch fastest pigeon of the Polish Wroclaw. That
Saturday morning we had discharged the pigeons for an hour, because
there were no reports yet on the shorter distances. About ten minutes to
ten suddenly a pigeon from Wroclaw drunk on the roof. All pigeons were
called in. The pigeon was clocked at 9:53 am.
A 3 years old black, female pigeon
“De Wroclaw”did
this performance. She was the only pigeon, with a six days old nest,
with a speed above the 1000 mpm. Last year she flew together with her
half-brother "De Fifth Wroclow", the 3rd and the 5th place. In the Fond
Union North the Netherlands they flew from the same Wroclaw, but this
time they came in opposite order, place 1 and 5 of the Netherlands. This
female pigeon strikes especially because of her softness; furthermore
she is a very dear pigeon.
What all this pigeons have in common is their calm and dear character.
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