Thurso Sunday
Well, the pigeons are ‘not’ coming home today. The sky is not proving good enough for a liberation and with still the threat of rain the convoyer has called a ‘hold over’. Enjoy your football this evening.
Thurso Saturday 13th
Due to rain at Thurso and heavy rain down the east coast of Scotland the NRCC are calling a holdover. Please call back tomorrow for further updates. Thank you.
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No Larking about for Ross as he wins the Kings Cup
The Northlink Ferries sponsored Lerwick race is the most awaited and prestigious race on the NRCC’s calendar and it finally arrived on June 29th. With many a fancier spending extra time in and around the loft preparing their birds for the journey across to Lerwick and return time spent on the wing, no one could
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Lerwick Away
The Lerwick birds were liberated at 05:30hrs in a light north west wind turning west on route. All the birds have left the crates and cleared te site. The North Sea in clear and we have good visibility down the line of flight.
Missing Rings
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Monday at Lerwick
While they have high cloud over Lerwick, Scotland is covered with two large bands of rain. After consulting with the weather team the convoyers have made the decision to hold over. All things being equal tomorrow conditions are showing an improvement. Please call back tomorrow
Lerwick on Sunday
Due to low cloud and a band of rain over Peterhead running through Scotland the convoying team have called ahold over at Lerwick
Fraserburgh becomes Dunbar
After collecting all 1337 birds from the marking stations on Thursday 13th June, the NRCC transporter made its way up to Ecclefechan where the birds were fed and watered. The driver and convoyer continued their journey on the Friday morning, arriving at Fraserburgh early this afternoon. On arrival, the birds were given fresh water and
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Lerwick Held Over
The convoyer has called a hold over at Lerwick due to rain, please call back tomorrow.
Over the sea to Lerwick
793 birds have been entered into the 2024 NRCC’s Kings Cup Race to Lerwick, getting us safely over to the island is our sponsor Northlink Ferries. The transporter left on Wednesday stopping off at Ecclefechen to feed and water the birds continuing yesterday up to the port at Aberdeen arriving at 11:30 hrs. Once checked
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