Has anyone found dead woodpigeon?

[harrycatcat 31]

Talking to a bloke the other day and he said "loads of woodpigeon die cos of bad weather" but I have not come across any layed about, have you?

[hedz31 1,308]

Funny you should metion that pal,ive found a few none of them looked bad they were just stiff and frozen like stuffed animals when i came across them my young lurcher bitch found one only two nights ago when i was out and brought it to me and it really did look like a stuffed bird not seen it like this before where ive found a few and i am not far from you i wonder if its happening else where around the country

[Neal 1,930]

Ironically, this happened to me this weekend too. I let the kelpies out in the garden before their morning walk and the youngest bitch shot over to the end of the hedge and started marking standing up on her back legs. Assuming it was a rat, I grabbed a stick and beat the hedge a few times. Then my old male trotted over to where the bitch had been marking, jumped up into a patch of ivy and pulled out a stone dead woody.