old bird race season coming up

[re lee]

Next week it will be March. Not long until old bird race season. How many of you are getting ready to start taking the birds down the road for training. And what direction will you be flying this year. The club here is flying south east this year. Down thru east texas and lousiana. Some times that direction. Has some good spring storms. Hopefully it will be a good season though.

[re lee]

Race season starts April 4 here. For the racing club. How soon and hows the training going for the people here that plan to race.

[WhiteWingsCa]

OB season doesn't start until May here. Most of the flyers still have their birds in lockdown because of the hawks!

We won't be racing OB's this year To much on the go with "real life", and not enough time to devote to the birds to get them into proper shape. Scaling back on YB's too - but hopefully just for this year!

[re lee]

Has anyone been racing this season yet. They have been racing here since the first weekend of April. Last week one flyer had clock birds of over 2400 yards per min. Great speed. tail wind. from a 200 mile race.. My brother inlaw in La. had 1400 yards cross wind. they flu west coarse. the club here is south by south east. So those of you that are racing now hows ot going.

[Lovebirds]

Our first race was the first week end in April. We took 1st thru 4th in the combine. Our champion bird, "2413" was the winner with three other birds on the drop with her, one of them a yearling. She won this race last year but only at the club level. The race last week wasn't so good. We came in 7th. It's funny sort of.........."2413" was our 4th bird home, the same race last year, after winning the first week, she was our 5th bird home. Think there is something about this paricular race station? We'll see how she does this coming week end. Last year she won the race coming up.