Loft Report
20/09/2015 - The southern French city of Narbonne opened its baskets on 25 July 2015 at 8 o’clock in the morning, with a one day delay. A total of 19,912 pigeons took off for the international classic. By the end of the day, the first pigeons were clocked in Germany and the east of France, due to the north-westerly wind. However, a few more pigeons arrived home later in the evening, and over much longer distances. There was only pigeon that managed to get home before the end of the day after covering more than 950km, and it was a pigeon of Hugo and Anita Batenburg-Van De Merwe. They clocked their Carlo BE14-4216131 at 23h21’09”. This was an impressive performance and it would prove quite a successful race from Narbonne for them this season.
