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Included please find the birds currently present at the loft:
Inventory mid August 24th, 2007
September 2nd, 2007
The Birds were released at the 300 mile race point at 8 am.
With a strong south wind there was a lot of discussion prior the
arrival as to what direction the birds would come from. It
ranged from the expected course line of SE to East and North
East. As far as time predictions we had them starting at 1:30
and as late as after 3 pm.
No one predicted and pointed directly to the North. This is
exactly were the first drop of 15 birds came from right at 2pm.
This was followed by another drop of 16 birds 2 minutes later.
By 2:30 pm or 30 minutes we had 64 birds back. Event at 3 pm we
had a drop of additional 10 birds. At 8 pm we had a total of 106
birds back out of the 129 birds sent to the race.
As far as the winning, the 15 first birds were declared equal
first and equally shared the combined pool of the 1st 15 prizes.
The second drop was declared equal second and equally shared the
remaining total of prizes.
It must be noted that there were few birds that were not
activated by the owners prior end of basketing and as last year
these birds became property of CCRPA.
Now that we have officially finished the 2nd Edmonton Capital City
Derby, The Club thanks all the
Participants for entering.
Overall, we could not
ask for a better day as far as the turn-out of people at the Goodchild's. The hosts, the weather, company of people and
food were fantastic. And yes let's not forget our pigeons as
this is why we have come together.
Here are the results and few pictures from the event.
| Bird |
Bird Entered By |
Computer Listing |
Time |
| 1 |
Jan Janik |
CU 07EDM
6 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 2 |
Klaus Petzold |
CU 07 EDM 1016 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 3 |
Alex Bieche |
AU 07BIEC
7499 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 4 |
M. Dziarmaga |
CU 07 CU 15615 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 5 |
Tom Spring |
CU 07MTPC 192 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 6 |
Kurt Schierholz |
CU 07EDM 401 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 7 |
J. Smith |
CU 07CU 18449 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 8 |
D. Hill |
CU 07VIC 413 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 9 |
Cal Murray |
CU 07CU 15217 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 10 |
Art McLean |
AU 07STAN 141 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 11 |
J. Vanderlann |
CU 07CAL 2320 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 12 |
R. Zaccharius |
CU 07CU 17133 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 13 |
W. Derfel |
CU 07CU 21059 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 14 |
K. Moore |
CU 07MTPC 334 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 15 |
B&S Weiland |
CU 07WCW 7712 |
2 PM - 1st drop |
| 16 |
W. Nowaczynski |
CU 07CCRP 1979 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 17 |
E. Kneller |
CU 07EDM 615 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 18 |
J. Grohs |
CU 07MTPC 1677 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 19 |
Correia/Paulsen |
CU 07VIC 55 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 20 |
A. Bieche |
AU 07BIEC 7500 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 21 |
M. Dudzic |
CU 05EDM 1102 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 22 |
Ted Oddy |
CU 07SP 7655 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 23 |
Cowboy Up Boys |
CU 07CIRP 7230 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 24 |
W. Derfel |
CU 07CU 21030 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 25 |
F. Cesario |
CU 07EDM 396 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 26 |
T. Makowecki |
CU 07EDM 1214 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 27 |
G. Vogt |
CU 07CAL 658 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 28 |
F. Cesario |
CU 07EDM 397 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 29 |
J. Knox |
CU 07EDM 460 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 30 |
J. Grohs |
CU 07MTPC 1616 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
| 32 |
Ross/Correia |
CU 07MTPC 3853 |
2 PM and 2 min - 2nd drop |
List
as of 5:42PM
Initial wait and auction of teams:
 
 
 
First Birds are in the Loft:
 
Yes and as always lets as not forget to eat:
 
And there was wine tasting and Jim and
Fred did some "modern rapping" during the bird auction:
 
Roy and Dennis were the cooks:
August 24th, 2007
Dash for Cash went off Thursday without a hitch and all
birds are home. We hope this is an indicator of how the Derby
will go.
On the list all participants in the Dash are highlighted in
blue.
First place goes to bird # CU-07-WCW owned by Bill & Shirley
Weiland,
Second place is CU-07-EDM-1102 owned by Morris Dudzik and third
place is # CU-07-1 owned by Jan Janik.
Birds were released at 7:55 AM with cloudy skies, 5 C and North
East winds @ 10K. 1st birds were home at 11:01:55 with 43 birds
on the drop. 2nd drop at 11:03:38 with 49 birds. 3rd drop 1 bird
at 11:04:36, 4th drop 1 bird at 11:08:00, 5th drop 1 bird
11:09:32, 6th drop 1 bird at 11:10:10, 7th drop 17 birds at
11:11:56 to 11:12:23, 8th drop 2 birds at 11:15, 9th drop 3
birds at 11:16, 10th drop 4 birds at 11:30 - 31. The last 4
birds were in between 11:37 and 2:26.
Next week we will do 2 short tosses of 35 to 55 miles weather
permitting.
Good Luck to All and see you next
weekend
August 18th, 2007
On Thursday the birds went to 110 mile toss. Birds
with an * have not returned as of Friday morning.
Due to bad weather last week birds were not flown the 110 until
yesterday. Birds were released at 8:10 AM under partially cloudy
skies and 5-10 km tail winds. About half way home skies were
totally cloudy and 20 - 30 km tail winds.
First drop was at 10:20 and second drop was at 10:22.
Dash for Cash will be postponed until Aug 23 (again weather
permitting).
Please inform Fred & Dori Goodchild if
you will be coming for the derby so plans can be made.
August 9th, 2007
Monday's training toss was from
Viking Corner and Hwy 16 (aprox 75 miles) under partially
cloudy skies, slight head wind and 17 degrees Celsius at
7:35 AM.50. 60 birds on the first drop with second and third
drops right behind (all 3 joined on the landing board).
First bird clocked at 9:18:59 with 41 birds clocking in the
next minute. 99th birds clocked in at 9:22:44.
On Sunday Aug 12 (weather permitting) birds will go to
Vermillion (110 Miles). The list shows position of all birds
except for 2 that say 1 drop( these birds had been hurt in
prior weeks and did not have electronic bands on yet.
July 29th 2007
Birds were out to a 50
mile training toss today (Jul 29). Electronic bands were placed
on yesterday.
If anyone is interested we will do a Dash
for Cash from Lloydminster (230 km) on Aug 19. Entry fee is $20
and prizes will be 50% to First, 30% to Second and 20% to Third.
Please have entry fee to Fred by Aug 17.
CALCUTTA
: All can prepay their teams at a cost of $75 per team - 1,
2 OR all three 3 birds.
Monies to be received no later than August 26 ( 1 week prior
to race). Teams/Birds that are not pre-paid will
be auctioned on shipping night.
July 19th 2007
Started training on Jul 13 at 5 miles. Birds have had 4
tosses and are out 15 miles. Next toss will be at at 25
miles.
3 birds have been hurt and 3 more are missing since we
started training. Electronic bands should be on around the
end of the month and we will have another inventory then.
July 3rd 2007
At inventory time in mid June 8 birds were missing
and 2 were dead. Missing birds may still return.
We had quite a bout of young bird sickness but none had died
from that.
This week we had one bird die from a virus. The good news is
that no other birds are showing any more sign of sickness. When
loft cleaned Sunday Jul 1 droppings looked very good.
About 95% of birds are now ranging and fly for 45 min to 1
hour twice a day.
We'll do a complete inventory in the next couple of weeks and
will try to get an update out every week.
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