Night is night for most part. It takes little technique to see them in dark.
I am sure you can learn it based on your local lighting in the area where to
look, how high your birds go in to the dark. As far birds go they can fly in
dark no problem.
I like to say this, putting them into the dark is easy, keeping control on
them in dark is hard.
If you have low fliers that can give fly at lower altitude then yes they can
be trained for night flying, there are several night flying articles on the http://www.tipplers.com website that you may refer to. But let me tell you,
if you have highflying birds with long primaries, it will be impossible for
them to be flying at a lower altitude for hours because of their wing
structure.
soss m8 Im in a ell of a rush poppin in to post stuff and runnin out to work the droppers :-) they went up at 8 pm and kitted lovely. Pitch black at 9.30 an its 10.40 now !!! Droppers are workin magic but 4 are still awol
.......
I know what you're asking Jon about flagging the youngons in daylight.
I personally don't use a flag to keep them going , but just buzz them on by
clapping hands or slamming the wheelie bin lid as they constantly looking to
land . its heart in your mouth time this stage when they are panicking and
flying fast tight circles to be in the loft. I wonder if its the birds eyes
adjusting to the dark ,
Yes I have tried dark training my birds. Harry Shannon actually showed me
how to do it when I was at his home in Belfast.I also got some good tips
from Davey and Oskar as well with regards to dark training and working the
droppers as well.. It worked very well for me, using their instructions. I
had them doing 2 and half hours into the dark.
Proper way to fly the English tipplers now, they are only going to be fed in
the dark ,no more daylight feeding
Tomorrow fly the young ones 40 mins prior to dark just as the sky starts to
change on with the lights, no droppers ,so the tipplers are now looking
down at their home lit up, do this for 15 mins or so they will be panicking
up above bumping into each other that sort of stuff ,l
3 novices that joined our club, thought dark flying was for bats, until we
showed them, they were amazed, so was some of the neighbours, must of
thought we were stir crazy standing there in the middle of the night getting
birds down,
They all now without fail dark train young birds and old birds, last year a
novice flew them twice 17hrs 30 mins as youngons, another member a novice
fro
Its the only way to do it, expose them to as little daylight as possible
before dark, using your own judgment on when to show the lights and
droppers, then once they are down keep them calm in and around the trap with
the droppers .this is there life now they have to compete with the droppers
to the food or no supper ,
they soon will learn , in a week or so they'll be flying in the dark ,
once you got the kit going young or old ,do you not then train them straight
to the dark, ?? falcons cant get them in the dark mate, its only a bit more
control getting the birds down when you say so ,not when they decide ,it can
only lesser the attacks ,plus it brain washes the kit, that they no longer
can drop in the daylight , they automatically go to dark on comp day, its
that easy mate, i know its late nights continuously but ride your luck on
the competition day ,you get the record.
