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Included please find the birds currently present at the loft: Inventory August 28th, 2006

Auction of the Derby Birds will take place at noon on Saturday September 16th at the Club House.
If you are interested in purchasing any of the birds please inform your known contacts at the CCRPA.
They can purchase the birds for you.

Sunday September 3rd, 2006:

The Winner of the Edmonton CCRPA Derby presented with the winning check for $10,000.
Congratulations Gerry Yeatheard!!!!OK

Now that we have officially finished the 1st 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.
Out of 81 birds shipped to the race we had 44 birds come back by 7:30 PM. We are sure that most will be back tomorrow, but on this unusually calm and hot day in September the birds had to work hard to make it back at the time they did.

Here are the results and few pictures from the event.
The first 20 birds are in the prizes and the 1st is the $10,000 winner.

Bird Participant Name Computer Listing Time
1 Yeatheard/Knox CU  06CU    8261 1:57:08 PM
2 Alex Bieche AU  06BIEC  6488 1:57:09 PM
3 F. Cesario  CU  06CU   19502 1:57:10 PM
4 Garry Vallance CU  06CHWK  6407 1:57:12 PM
5 M. Dziarmaga CU  06EDM    439 1:57:13 PM
6 Bereznicki AU  06AU        138 1:57:14 PM
7 M. Dziarmaga CU  06EDM    437 1:58:20 PM
8 D. Donahue CU  06EDM    758 1:58:22 PM
9 K. Frank CU  06CU    8258 2:08:48 PM
10 A.M. Spring CU  06MTNP 10344 2:14:10 PM
11 Wallace and Co. CU  06CCRP  1703 2:24:07 PM
12 Judy and Dale Corry CU  06VIC    405 2:25:04 PM
13 Jim Smith CU  06CU   18813 2:25:05 PM
14 M. Dudzic CU  06EDM    633 2:35:55 PM
15 K. Petzold CU  06EDM    721 2:39:28 PM
16 K. Petzold CU  06EDM    720 3:00:30 PM
17 Bereznicki AU  06AU        101 3:02:09 PM
18 M. Koback AU  06AU     162 3:29:51 PM
19 K. Schierholz       CU  06EDM    831 3:32:07 PM
20 Tom Spring CU  06MTNP 10334 3:32:30 PM
21 Celia and Joe Visscher  CU  06CU    6305 3:32:38 PM
22 Ray Horsefield  CU  06EDM      7 3:32:39 PM
23 K. Hume CU  06SL     181 3:44:58 PM
24 Dan Carrie CU  06ALBE  1227 3:46:26 PM
25 Ray Horsefield  CU  06EDM     17 3:46:32 PM
26 Mike Rodojcic CU  06APPL  7488 3:48:47 PM
27 K. Frank CU  06CU    8257 3:49:24 PM
28 Cal Murray CU  06CU     213 4:05:43 PM
29 Correia/Poulsen CU  06VIC      2 4:28:13 PM
30 Stan Gawel AU  06AU     102 4:55:52 PM
32 Garry Vallance CU  06CHWK  6409 5:04:44 PM
33 Yeatheard/Knox CU  06EDM   1104 5:05:00 PM
34 Tony Poetker CU  06WIN  13874 5:19:24 PM
35 A. McCormack CU  06CU     883 5:29:17 PM
36 Alex Bieche AU  06BIEC  6497 5:42:03 PM
37 George Rowley CU  06CCRP  2006 5:42:22 PM
38 Yeatheard/Knox CU  06EDM   1101 5:44:58 PM
39 Celia and Joe Visscher  CU  06CU    6319 5:53:05 PM
40 C. Filice CU  06EDM   1317 5:53:41 PM
41 Gayle and Ted Oddy CU  06SP    6106 6:46:11 PM
42 F. Cesario  CU  06CU   19503 6:46:12 PM
43 K. Frank CU  06CU    8255 7:00:44 PM
44 T. Makowecki  CU  06EDM    954 7:30:14 PM

 

Kids are just having fun and we are waiting:


 

Pig is getting ready and Mr. Yeatheard has no idea of what may be coming:

Fred is coming with the BIG News:

First 20 Birds in the Loft and the Winner gets the girl and the cash:

The host Fred and Dori - thanks for having us:

 
 



Winner and the bird breeder Karl Frank



And we all enjoyed the well deserved meal

The Bone Eater

Sunday September 3rd, 2006:
 Birds released at 8 A.M. to sunny sky with a slight wind. It is anticipated to be a perfect race with sunny skies all the way home, wind 10-15 km/h from south and north-east. In Edmonton we are expecting mainly sunny day and on arrival the temperature should be at around 27 deg. C. Good luck to all the participants.

September 2nd, 2006:
The evening before the race:
 Inside the Loft:

Getting the food ready and yes time to start eating:

Time to basket and buy some tickets (right Jim!!!)

August 27th:
 80 Mile toss today. Birds released at 8:05. First birds home at 9:47:38 and 76th bird was home at 9:55:49.
Birds are healthy and will be loft flown this week. May try for a short toss on Wed or Thur depending on weather.
Thanks and Good Luck to all participants this upcoming weekend.

 

Derby Pooling.
Any participants that are not going to be at the derby for the race and wish to pool please fill in the pools (Derby Pooling Sheet) you want and send the money in with your pool sheets so they can be received by Sep 1st.
Any pools not received by 10:00 AM on race day will be open to everyone else.

August 21st:
 Birds were released from Loydminster (~150 miles) on Sunday. Birds were released at 6:40 AM and the first drop was at 9:49:02 with 19 birds on the drop. The 19th birds clocked at 9:49:52. The second drop arrived at 9:51:48 with 20 birds on the drop. The third drop was at 9:54:02 The 74th bird arrived at 10:04. Weather conditions of the race were slight head wind and sunny skies.

The birds will be taken on a 60 Mile toss this weekend.

Congratulations to Al McCormack -1st Place, Kurt Schierholtz - 2nd Place and Tony Poetker 3rd place.
39 birds were entered with the prize money 50/30/20.

August 15th:
 Birds went to Vermilion, 110 miles, this past weekend.

This up-coming weekend, Saturday August 19th, the plan is to send the birds to Loydminster. For this toss, if you wish you can add a bit of excitement. For those wanting to, you can put-up $10/bird. The entire pool will be split 50/30/20 to the first three birds. If you are interested, call Fred (780) 973-4614. 

August 10th:
 Weather permitting the birds will be released 110 miles this up-coming weekend.

July 22nd:
 Birds released 35 miles away and returns at 100%. To-date the birds had 12 tosses. Three from 30 miles, three from 25 miles and shorter. The injured birds were back on the wings this morning from a shorter toss.

The plan is to have the birds to Viking (~65 miles) by next weekend and then have them fly from Wainwright (120 miles) in two weeks.

July 15th:
 Birds released 25 miles away and returns at 100%.

Note, 7 birds held back as they did come bruised from the last toss. At the time the birds did split. The smaller group came first (~20 birds) and the larger (80+) missed the loft and came about five minutes later. The injured birds did come a little later. We will take an inventory next week.

July 9th, 2006:
Today's toss from 5 miles away with a strong SW wind. Birds released in smaller groups. None of the groups circled at all and returns are at 100%. We will plan on increasing the distance ever so slowly every day for the next 5 days and plan to have them to 25 miles by next weekend.

July 8th, 2006:
Today we will gradually begin training the birds. Today's toss was from  3miles away.
It took the birds 20 minutes to come home. All birds are back

July 3rd, 2006:

  • All birds are loft flying anywhere from 45-60 minutes.
  • At this stage all birds appear very healthy. However, we did loose seven birds to YBD.
  • Training is scheduled to begin next week.
  • As we increase the distance we will regularly provide update on the results of the training tosses.