Gardian Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 We've got one in our garden and he / she won't go away!First noticed it early this morning trying to lean over the edge of the pool to get a drink - without success. After a while, I put out a plant pot saucer with some fresh water and it had a good drink. It then curled up in the shade and nodded off for a while.Later, it tried to get in to the house, so doors had to be shut. It can fly OK, so not injured and it seems quite plump, so not underfed (though I'm hardly an expert on pigeon health!)I can get to within a foot of it and it has tags on both feet - a green one on the right and two (a yellow & an orange) on the left. There is a number on one of them (not a phone no!) Any ideas as to who I might be able to contact? Daft as it may seem, there just might be a sort of 'lost pigeon clearing house' number that I could ring.Mark you, I'm not sure that I fancy this bloke's chances overnight around here - there are plenty of bad guys around who'd just fancy a pigeon supper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idun Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Here are a couple of web sites that may help, that is IF you can get the number from the tag. FederationColombophile Francaisewww.colombophiliefr.com/UK Racing pidgeonsassociationhttp://www.rpra.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyh4 Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 Sadly racing pigeons that do not return home usually have one fate once reunited with their owners - pigeon pie.If they don't return home then they are just eating food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickP Posted June 30, 2015 Share Posted June 30, 2015 The last thing you would want to eat is an old racing pigeon, we bred pigeons ( for eating) for a while and you eat them young. What would happen if it gets back to it's loft, after getting lost; is it's neck will be stretched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 Thanks Idun & everybody.Laddo is currently up on the roof, so well away from the bad guys!The plan is to entice him in to the cat box of one of our late-belated felines. Bird seed that usually gets put out in Winter.If I can then identify him easily ............ then a phone call from Idun's link.Most likely, a release 5kms away from here and "Bonne Chance" old chap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Poor $od is probably fed up with being continually put in a box and taken hundreds of miles away to find his own way home.Why not give him a good feed and a new home where he is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Give it to Norman, he needs a friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted July 1, 2015 Author Share Posted July 1, 2015 Well he spent the night on the roof and showed his appreciation by crapping all over it!First thing, he was pecking away in the garden without a care in the world & was still at it mid- morning.Then he diappeared! At midday, I was chatting to a neighbour 100m away and he said that he'd been with them earlier. He reckoned that he fancied 'Pigeon avec Sauce Chasseur et Petits Pois' for his dinner tonight.Anyway ............ no further sightings, but I'll believe that he's gone when he's really gone, if you see what I mean.This could easily run and run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 or fly and fly ? [Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 [quote user="Gardian"]Well he spent the night on the roof and showed his appreciation by crapping all over it! [/quote]Never mind, it'll make the tiles look more authentic.Our new ones came with simulated birdsh*t speckled all over them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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