The South West of England Lerwick Club
The South West of England Lerwick Clubs 4th young bird race was being flown from Coventry again to give the young birds one last short race and a chance for the late starting members to pull that shorter race in before the build-up begins in moving them further up country weekly.
To rise the young birds up for their final 300 plus mile Challenge championship race from Berwick, which this is a distance club not a weekly sprint club, this will occur in September for the true pigeon men that will send.
So on the 28/8/20 at 09.15am into a light west wind the birds were liberated at Coventry.
To the top twenty and sitting back on the top of the tree is Alan Meacham were he achieved 1st, 2nd & 3rd open Lerwick club and 1,2,3 in the Brislington NRFC all his three scoring birds are Dirk Van Den Bulk Hens his winner a blue pied hen which was previously at the last weeks Coventry his 15th open Lerwick club & first Brislington bird his velocities were 1290, 1289 & 1275.
Top Dog Alan Meacham
4th & 16th open & first Oldland NRFC was Steve Robbins and these same two birds the week previously from Coventry in the same order came again in the Oldland Club he achieved 1st & 3rd the first a blue hen bred from Tumbley loft Stud stock birds his second a blue Van Lint cock velocities of 1267 & 1211.
5th open & 2nd Oldland NRFC was Rob Light with a blue hen doing 1243.
6th,7th, 13th & 14th open and 1st & 2nd Sodbury Vale NRFC was A & R Smith with a combination of their Frank Tasker birds & Dave Smith Soontjen with velocities of 1242, 1241, 1222 & 1221
8th, 9th , 10th & 11th open and 3rd & 4th Sodbury Vale NRFC was C & J Adams their first bird a chequer pied Dirk Van Den Bulk Cock were his parents were obtained from the Bryan Ferris entire clearance sale their second a blue chequer Wall Lunt & Green Jansen X Coreman cock the third a Red cock of David Cowan Talbot bird X Coreman breeding and their fourth bird a chequer White flight Van Loon cock all flown on the Darkness system flying back to the perch velocities of 1227, then three birds together of 3 x 1226,
15th open & 1st Thornbury NRFC was Dave Smith with a blue Soontjen Cock doing 1224
17th & 18th open & 1st & 2nd Bridgewater NRFC is Joedy McKay who is the organisations furthest flyer his first a Manderlartz blue cock from M & D Moore of Bristol his second a blue Dirk Van Den Bulk cock bred from Micky Collins stock of Birmingham his velocities were 1207 & 1205.
Joedy McKay
19th open & 3rd Bridgewater NRFC was Tony Baker with a very consistent and previous multiple prize carding young Chequer Lambrecht’s cock doing 1201.
20th open was Ken Whittingham with a blue cock doing 1199.
The Rat Man.
