We have had many requests from participants to only make un-activated reserve birds available to other people after the last Training Flight, which is taking place on Sunday the 21st from 30km. Activations will be moved over from any missing activated birds to their reserves then and we have moved the deadline for activation of remaining reserves to 12 noon GMT on Sunday 21st.
There were a number of late returning pigeons from today's Training Flight 17, all of which have come back in reasonable condition. We believe the pigeons were scattered by hawks this morning and have waited for cooler temperatures to return to the loft.