UNENDING TASKS OF AN ORGANIZER

I am referring to Joseph Yap, the Organizer of Mount-Sea OLR. This morning, I travelled with him to Rosario, Cavite for a visit to the OLR. What I thought was a beautifully constructed loft last year turned out to be not good enough.

This year, four air ventilators were added to reduce the heat inside the loft during the summer months. Then, the landing board appeared too small and was eventually extended. Simultaneous with the constructions of an aviary for the pigeons to take a bath, a living quarter with a clean bath room was also provided for the comfort of the loftmen.

With the changes in the landing board, all the former super traps were replaced with a new one built by Douglas. The interior arrangement of the loft (as suggested by Jaime Chua) was likewise adjusted to make it easier for the loftmen to feed and give clean water to the birds everyday.

When the rainy season started late in July, the loft inside appeared too windy and cold for the birds. Thus, jalousy windows were installed to control the air flow. Temporary aviary was also installed to help the youngs settle in the loft.

In the first week of this month (DECEMBER). the technical team from Benzing inspected the loft and was astonished to see the MT-SEA OLR. "The loft and location are superb! It's one of the best that I have seen". Remarks of Mr. Reinhard Versell from Austria.

With the new e-clock introduced by Benzing and sponsored by Merchor De Asis. We have to make an ocular inspections to see how we can modify the trapping system for an eventual migration to electronic clocking. The first ever to be introduced in the Philippines. However, the Organizer has to be very careful not to frighten the birds as road trainings will start this week.

While at the site, we also discussed how to extend the loft to accomodate more birds next year. From our discussion, it seem that the MT-SEA OLR loft is just halfway finished. Thus, two thumbs up to JOSEPH YAP for his energy, passion and dedication.

Vicngo

READY FOR ROAD TRAININGS

My two sons have their HP team building outing at Mount Sea Resort last Friday to Saturday. I have volunteered to fetch them last Saturday, since I want to visit the loft at the same time. It was a very pleasant visit, especially seeing the OLR birds in good conditions. My congratulations to Manny Dela Cruz (loft supervisor) for the nice job! This was a big contrast to the sight during the month of May, when most of the birds were sicked.



I would also like to congratulate Aaron for the nice video. The birds were like dancing in the air. As I watch the video, It seems that their formations looks more like a tornado or fireworks.

TOTAL ENTRIES AS OF MAY 31, 2010

Mount Sea OneLoft has received a total of 565 birds from 103 participants. There are many slots still under reserved. Thus, I personally believe that the capacity of the loft will be filled to its maximum.

PICTURE TAKING

Together with my 2 kids, 4 volunteers from CRPA and our new loft Supervisor Manny Dela Cruz, we have started taking pictures of the entries in Mount Sea OLR this morning. I am glad that Manny volunteered to assist our Organizer Joseph Yap in the daily supervision of the loft. The total entries as of today is 438 from almost a hundred's participants. It was really fun working with people in the same hobby, as there was no single dull moment.

LOFT VISIT

I went to Mount Sea at around 11:00am. On the way, my car aircon stayed on high speed as the temperature outside was extremely hot. When I reached the place and parked my car, I rushed in to the loft and saw Joseph Yap and Eric Distor comfortably seated inside. I went around and check every compartment, the whole loft is cool and you can really feel the sea breeze flowing into the loft and exiting through the four ventilators newly installed. Outside, you can see the four galvanized ventilators spinning like choppers.

We have lunch together inside the newly renovated Tangway Restaurant. The Organizer showed me the list of entries totalling 406 birds from 83 participants. I was likewise informed that many members are encountering some problems with their breeding and are requesting for an extension of the deadline of May 31, 2010. Our website coordinators will constantly update you on this issue.

Join now and be part of of the new One Loft experience.

MOUNT-SEA LOFT VISIT

This morning, I have visited the loft at around 11:15am to check the on-going improvements being done by the organizer Joseph Yap. Unfortunately, I was a bit late as I was told by the loftmen that Joseph had just left. Anyway, I entered the loft and saw that four compartments were filled up with birds already.

1st compartment - 22 birds

2nd compartment - 24 birds

3rd compartment - 28 birds

4th compartment - 18 birds

total of 92 birds as of 11:15am (April 18, 2010)

Wow! I was a bit surprised to see that so many birds were in the loft already, considering that OLR ring distributions officially started only on March 6th, while entries are allowed only after April 1st.

I checked my old postings and noticed that Mount-Sea OLR started accepting entries on February 15 and by April 22, 2009, there were only 74 birds.

After a brief talks with Joseph Yap, I was told that most of those who pledged to enter at least two sets (including myself) have not submitted their birds yet.

I hope that we will not experience any over booking scenario here, as we wish to accomodate everyone to have a chance in participating in our Mount-Sea 2nd year OLR.

Happy Racing to all!

MOUNT-SEA OLR RINGS

Aside from the limited quantities of rings spread out to the different distributors of Mount-Sea OLR. Only 200 rings were left with the Organizer Joseph Yap as of March 20, 2010.



The PFC BODs have requested that they will pay their 60 entries in advance. Thus, reserving the slots for them. I have likewise received many inquiries if they could pay and reserve the slots which is limited to 700.



As part of the OLR 2011 race mechanics. The entries will be on a first come first accomodate basis. We regret that no more entries will be accepted once the number of birds reach 700. To give priority to those availing of the 5+1 promo, an update will be posted in the Mount-Sea website as a reminder. Any participant who wishes to avail the promo should pay forward in order to secure the slots.

PFC BODs joining OLR

We were all very overwhelmed with the full support of PFC when 10 sets (representing 60 birds) were immediately pledged by the individual Board Members of PFC during their meeting with the OLR organizer on March 20, 2010. More PFC members are expected to join later.

To all Mount-Sea OLR participants, expect a tough competition from the heavyweight members of PFC (Currently the largest club in the Philippines) in our 2011 OLR.

Congratulations to the success of PFC! Congratulations to all the BODs for a job were done! More power to your club..........

ADDITIONAL ADMINS

I would like to welcome Mr. Aaron Claudio and Mr. Roland Cervantes as additional administrators for the website of Mount-Sea OLR. We hope to see more interesting updates in the months to come.

Mabuhay ang Mount-Sea OLR 2011. Mabuhay tayong lahat!

SIMULATION CLOCKING OF TAGKAWAYAN RACE

CRPA officers and members have started their first clocking on the OLR birds arrived from Tagkawayan, Quezon on January 23, 2010. Due to the bad weather in the area, the birds were released at 8:30am. First group of six birds arrived at around 11:10am. There are eleven of us including the Organizer Joseph Yap witnessing the first sample clocking of the race. We all have so much fun watching the birds arriving in groups or individually.

Some adjustments outside the loft, as well as the trap doors will be made. It was also the first time for the birds to be locked in the trap doors. Hopefully, the birds will feel more comfortable seeing people around in the succeeding races.

Huge turn-out of participants are expected on March 6, 2010. Thus, the Organizer and the BODs are now preparing for the big event. New set of rules for 2011 races will also be published soon!

ALLEN, SAMAR race on March 6, 2010

The final race is set on MARCH 6, 2010. Don't miss the fun and excitement! Check on how to join! Registration will start soon.................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PICTURES TAKING.....!!!!!!!!!

On January 9, 2010 (SAT), I went to MT-SEA Oneloft to assist Joseph Yap in the picture taking of all the birds remaining in the loft. There are 190 in total. We started at 4:30pm and finished at 9:30pm. Aside from the initial short tosses, all the birds (except for the injured or sicked) have started their road trainings. The following are the number of birds loaded in their respective training points:
DEC 27 PLARIDEL - 200
DEC 29 TAYABAS - 185
DEC 31 ATIMONAN - unknown
JAN 03 GUMACA - 193
JAN 06 SAN PABLO - 188
JAN 08 SAN PABLO - 184
JAN 10 GUMACA - 185
The Volunteers from CRPA are going to start administering the loading and clocking soon. The Organizer will start publishing the race results once complete payment of entries has been made.