Fri morning rang Martin and Stephen vote was 3 to 0 to go forecast was for most of day to have sunny intervals over all the route
Fri 5.00 arrived at yard picked up Deerness Valley,West Durham ,Crook and Cockfield feds
Travelled to site with 3 wagons and 2 trailers arriving on site at 1.00 am
Up at 6.15 full cloud cover on site ,ok at home end ,poor Ripon area
8.00 improvement on site still poor on route
9.30 improving on route still ok on site
10.00 birds liberated in a very light south west wind ,clearing ok but not brilliant
Basket numbers
Consett 76, Crook 16, Cockfield 35, Darlington 18
Deerness Valley 35,West Durham 63, Newcastle 47
Annfield Plain 48,Tyne Derwent 40
Total 378
Peter Mathews,posted by Alan Brown