Birds had a few days off as I had to be out of town. But it was windy and rains and temperature swings - so did not miss much.

This week we will start to flag birds in preparation for roadwork - I have not seen so many injuries ever, even in my personal OB team there are busted chests, birds limping, tail missing, etc. The weather patterns have definitely changed  - we went from 80 to 44 just like that today !

I will start to tag the injured birds in the inventory -

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Birds have been out every day that is not too windy - Unusual windy weather here in AZ with some days heavy gusts. Today it is currently 16 mph East winds with much higher gusts.

Unfortunately with the winds come injuries - chest, and leg injuries on at least 12 birds. Additionally, the birds have started to take off with the winds and we are seeing some return the next morning.

At this point we are one week behind on training - we would have liked to start training Feb 1st.

Our Old Bird training has begun along the same general direction. OBs run through April 9th which will be a good thing so that our OLR birds do not get tangled up with the Federation - the Federation birds will be out much further to 358-540 miles at that timeframe.

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Very windy and cooler past few days with lots of birds taking to the skies - we had birds coming back the next morning after being out overnight. We will get in an inventory starting today....

Birds out every evening under supervision from the predators. We will start loft flying earlier so that they can get more time outside - they are still just mostly around the loft and making laps with a few taking off - no force flagging yet. We will do a hand inventory shortly on one of the upcoming off days.

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Spoke too soon - high winds and wind gusts with rain  out of nowhere unforecasted ~! So birds were locked in today Saturday !

Plan has not changed - will try again Sunday. Birds let out under supervision from the crazy hawks. We will use them to flag the birds once we start to get some wing time on the birds.

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All sections are out together - we are not flagging - just allowed to free roam. Had a few windy days during the week and the daily visits by Mr and Mrs Hawk. The nex 7 days are going to be great with no winds and inclement weather - birds are out every day. As soon as they start routing - we will be taking them down the road and publishing the training and race schedule...

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Some extremely windy conditions the past week.. had a few incidents - 2 with broken legs, 1 banged up chest, and 2 without e-bands.

Birds are out this week alternating in 2 groups... all healthy and enjoying the much cooler weather with highs of 70.

Once we get the birds up and routing 45+ mins, we will post a training schedule and race schedule.

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Boot camp starts this week - will need to lighten them up with some barley and work on trapping at the same time. The nets will be taken down this week after this next rain storm passes thru. Then birds will be out and about - soon they should be darkening the sjies around here....updates will be more frequent now as we ramp up their acitivity.

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Wishing you and your family all the best for 2022.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all - wishing you and your family a safe and prosperous 2022.

A wet and rainy few days with more rain next week. All good here - will start up in the New Year working with the birds as we get them going through their paces after the 1st week in January.