A morning with the UNC at Newark On the morning of Sunday 17th April I and my young daughter set off down the A1 to Newark Livestock Market to watch the mighty Up North Combine liberate the birds. My daughter is pigeon mad, well; she loves any animal and wildlife really, which I…

Chris Gibson reports on PAT HELLIWELL of Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield Herbal Essence On the morning of Wednesday 15th January I made the short trip over to the Grenoside area of Sheffield which is in north-west Sheffield to meet Pat Helliwell. Despite reading the results of the…

WHY OH WHY? by Chris Gibson Well, the title of this article certainly created some interest on a well known internet pigeon forum when I used it as the title of a thread I posted. This was regarding the cancellation of our Federation’s first young bird race. Some very…

MR & MRS ANDY JACKSON of Woodhouse, Sheffield by Chris Gibson My good friend Andy Jackson has many nicknames, two of which are “text message” and “daft Andy”. I will explain both during this report but rest assured he is far from what the latter name would suggest and the…

CHRIS GIBSON Sheffield & District 5 Bird Championship Round up of the 2012 YB season Well here it is the full results list for the silly season, young birds of course. Although, as I have said previously, this year as a whole seems to have been a little silly really with all the…