quickspin
612 posts
May 15, 2008
12:22 PM
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Today my main kit when dot high in less than 5 minutes not knowing why. They never fly high just good were you can see them and tell each one. I have got 7 back from 17 does some one know why they just when too high. I didn't do anything different than before the sky was blue clear perfect to fly. My younger kit also fly real high but they all came in and then I decided to fly my main kit and still not back.
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SALAS LOFT
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gotspin7
1325 posts
May 15, 2008
12:53 PM
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Rolando, I usually check the baramoter before I fly if it is high I will not fly. Hope you get all of them back, good luck!
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Sal Ortiz
Last Edited by on May 15, 2008 12:54 PM
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Square
286 posts
May 15, 2008
12:57 PM
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Wow, I guess it all boils down to the local weather factors.My birds tend to sky out when the atsmosphere is stable, sounds like thats what happend to you.. kinda wierd that I notice there is alot more tho the flying of rollers then just cracking the kit box. I have lost one kit in my 29years with rollers, it was in Pasadena Ca, in 2001 I overflew one of the best kit's I ever had showing off to my son. Not one was banded and not one returned.. Bummer.. I hope you have better luck than that...
Square..
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"Home of the Ghost Town Roller"
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quickspin
613 posts
May 15, 2008
1:02 PM
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Where can I check for the baramoter? I have heard this before but never put attention. My young kit that is 2-3 months old fly's low around 2-3 hundred feet never higher today they dot high as well. But the older kit they took off to the sky like a rocket and higher and higher and gone. They all have my band so I will see if they come back or not. The ones I'm missing are the hens most of the cocks are back.
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SALAS LOFT
Last Edited by on May 15, 2008 1:03 PM
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Square
289 posts
May 15, 2008
1:09 PM
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You can get the berometer reading from the local paper or just google local weather factors in your area...well worth it after doing this you will get a feel of the weather and trends in your local area...1
Square
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"Home of the Ghost Town Roller"
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JMUrbon
456 posts
May 15, 2008
1:19 PM
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I use the barometer as well as I also wont put a kit in the air if I see rising clouds. The type seen during thunder storms. We get them alot this time of year in the foothils and I try to avoid them. I lost several kits about 8 years ago one of which was the NCRC futurity kit on a very calm warm day in which they just kept going up and south like you stated and I put my old bird team out to try to bring them back and lost them also. Worst overfly I have ever had. I got birds back for 3 days. Luckily the futurity birds were still young and most guys elected to replace them. Anyway I know how you are feeling because I wanted to just throw up, I was just sick over the whole thing. I went outside after about 3 hours and there was paper and trash folling from the sky about 4-500 feet up so that told me there was some terrible updrafts and the birds just couldnt come down through them. Good luck and I truely hope they make it back safely. Joe Urbon
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Square
292 posts
May 15, 2008
1:23 PM
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Well put Joe, whenever I see those "Clumilus clouds" I know two things one I wont fly and two, I will probally be in the woods for the next few days chasing lightning fires...
Square
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JMUrbon
458 posts
May 15, 2008
1:26 PM
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LOL Mark. Ya they tend to cause a little smoke also. Joe
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quickspin
614 posts
May 15, 2008
1:40 PM
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This is at my city Lat: 33.85N, Lon: 118.13W ... Barometer: 29.91 in. Dewpoint: 49°F. Heat Index: 72°F. Wind Chill: 72°F
How can you tell if is high or low what is normal?
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SALAS LOFT
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J_Star
1585 posts
May 15, 2008
2:55 PM
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That sucks. I already had my overfly for the year and lost five out of 22. As much as I try to keep them to good heights, the weather will fool you every time. When this happens, it takes about three or four days for most of them to stroll back in. It is just a pitfall in this hobby that we have to live with just like the BOP.
Jay
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sippi
247 posts
May 15, 2008
6:42 PM
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Clear blue sky,no wind,if smoke goes straight up out of a smoke stack so will your birds. That is the worst of a high pressure. I lost several kits like that. I will fly if there is a wind during high pressure but not any high flying breeds.
Sippi
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quickspin
615 posts
May 15, 2008
7:31 PM
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7 birds never came back and 6 are hens the cocks did came back except one a younger one.
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SALAS LOFT
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quickspin
616 posts
May 16, 2008
8:52 AM
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1st kit missing 3
2nd kit missing 10 which is my main kit.
3rd kit missing 1
All this birds got lost this week. Usually don't loose birds but this days has been weird. They fly higher and going more to the south direction. As before flying right on top of the loft.
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SALAS LOFT
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MILO
1010 posts
May 16, 2008
9:06 AM
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The weather has been real strange lately. It's usually around 59-68 here, and was 97 yesterday(feels like 157 to us locals...lol), and probably gonna be hotter today. That barometer suggestion is a good one. You never know what the weather will bring.
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chewy
95 posts
May 16, 2008
12:36 PM
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sorry quickspin...for the loses...i tend to lose some sometimes...too..plus everybody loses a kit once n a while...but hope for the best..good luck ..and hope they come back home..
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quickspin
617 posts
May 16, 2008
12:38 PM
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1 came back but still missing 3 nice ones and 6 more young birds and a couple birds from each of my other kits. The bad thing I was going to fly saturday for my club fly.
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SALAS LOFT
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