Peterborough 12th June 2015 Convoyers Report

Tues ,received a text from Alan Brown asking if I had seen the weekend forecast ,I had already seen it

Wed received a phone call from Alan Brown about the weekend weather forecast and talked about the possibility of bringing the race forward to Friday . Alan then decided to contact emergency race committee which is Martin Wade ,Stephen Meadows ,Tony Coils ,Alan Brown and myself ,vote was 5 to 0 to change .alan Brown then checked with Rob Walton re drivers ,Brian Ford checked with Peterborough site if it was O K to go there,
Talked over details with Alan Brown and decided that when the message went out it would say birds not to be liberated before 11,00
Further concerns were raised ,a text from a federation sec re holding the birds back later to help members who were working .,concern about thunder showers fri afternoon on site ,plus heat, agreed with Alan Brown to lib as late as possible if birds were ok in baskets and weather was ok
Thurs 5,30 went to yard ,picked up Deerness Valley ,West Durham and Richmond met up at Barton at 9,30 ,left for site with 2 wagons and 2 trailers on site for 2,25 ,birds watered and opened up by 3,00 am
Fri 7,15 am blue skies on site but some mist ,fog in Ollerton area,
9,00 mist clearing on site ,fog clearing in Ollerton area with visibility of about 2 miles ,home end ok
11,00 Ollerton area clearing to blue skies ,cloud was starting to increase to South with rain forecast on site by 2,00
Liberated birds at 11,50 in a North East wind turning East South East on route
Left site at 12,30 going back to yard

Peter Mathews ,posted by Alan Brown