Cross breeds for pleasure flying

Jack Prescott
(Internet Published) Oct 2001

World-wide, the vast majority of man fly pigeons for their own pleasure and with no ambitions about trying to win anything or to be anybody. I refer to all men who keep and fly "non-racing" pigeons. I declare that the racing pigeons men are in a class of their own - basically gamblers.

Friends - I am not a gambler and I fly pigeons for the sheer joy of seeing them fly, sometimes at pin head size overhead - Other times most reluctant to fly.

So-called high flying pigeons are ruled by the weather. High flying pigeons do best on a regular routine of daily flying. I am not taking about marathon times. Frankly, I have not the time to hang about all day trying to keep a kit of pigeons under observation. Some excellent high flyers and acrobatic pigeons will fly no more than one hour.

Modern man is lucky to have one hour of his very own. In the 1920's men had little else but spare time after a hard days work.

[Internet Published Oct 2001 at http://www.tipplers.com/jack/]