Convoyers report Billericay National 1

Racepoint Billericay National 1
Friday 5pm baskets from WD and CF were transhipped on to trailer, left yard at 6.00pm. 10.30pm arrived at stibbington for our 45 min. 11.15pm left services to continue to Billericay. Arrived in Billericay for 1.30am this been for numerous diversions on the A1/M11/M25. We couldn't gain access to site this been through to having the Incorrect gate code for the site so we had to park in a car park just off main road this was unsuitable to liberated but hopefully we could gain access in the morning. All birds watered by 2.00am curtain buckles loosens shutters lifted a couple of inches. Saturday 6.30am still couldn't gain access to site but we managed to park on the other site off Billericay which was a massive car park, the WDA secretary was informed of what the situation we were in. 7.00am all wagons opened up nice on site blue skies sun up but misty In front line of flight poor in places. 8.00am same weather as above waters were splashed for the birds to encourage them to drink. 9.00am line of flight starting to improve a little home end weather was crap in places waiting to see if any of it improves. 10.00am line of flight improved a lot but only as far as the home end I was waiting to see if the home end was clearing out so decided to review in the next hour. 10.20am due to the increase in volume of cars we were asked by the manager of the site if we would be able to move back to the original site, we now had the correct the code numbers to gain access to the lib site and for future. 10.30am Arrived on the original liberation site, birds waters were all splashed and topped back up. 11.00am line of flight had cleared all the way up to the Wetherby area were it was high cloud but with good visibility home end was the same forecast but was getting better all the time hoping to lib within the hour. 11.45am 4062 birds were liberated in sunshine blue skies broken cloud and a South West wind all birds cleared excellently and with excellent visibility. Line of flight Reed, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Grantham, Newark, Retford, Worksop, Wetherby, Wakefield, Ripon, Catterick, Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Cockfield, Crook, Durham, Consett, Stanley, Blaydon, Newcastle.

J Proffit.