Bendigo 1,097 Posted September 1 Author Report Share Posted September 1 4 hours ago, Greyman said: I think the bit your missing is that most ferals started life in a loft but never returned have a look when your in town burnt up feet from the acid on the window ledges and rings on there legs if you shot 10 ferals you would get 3/4 ring I shoot about 1000 a year in local towns and only ever get a handful of rings off em. I found one sat on eggs on a window ledge and when I caught it I found a ring on it. I took it to a local bloke who races pigeons and told him he could return it to the owner as I had no room for it. He felt it and said "that's in good condition it's not been lost long". I didn't tell him it had been lost long enough to pair up and lay eggs in town! I've not seen him since to ask who's it was and how long it had been away. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 32,163 Posted September 1 Report Share Posted September 1 31 minutes ago, Bendigo said: I shoot about 1000 a year in local towns and only ever get a handful of rings off em. I found one sat on eggs on a window ledge and when I caught it I found a ring on it. I took it to a local bloke who races pigeons and told him he could return it to the owner as I had no room for it. He felt it and said "that's in good condition it's not been lost long". I didn't tell him it had been lost long enough to pair up and lay eggs in town! I've not seen him since to ask who's it was and how long it had been away. Possibly depends on the number of people racing them in the area and the amount of breeding going on quite interesting as I said haven’t shot them in as big numbers we did as kids but back them it was way over 50% most of those old warehouses are million pound flats now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shaaark 11,500 Posted September 1 Report Share Posted September 1 13 minutes ago, Greyman said: Possibly depends on the number of people racing them in the area and the amount of breeding going on quite interesting as I said haven’t shot them in as big numbers we did as kids but back them it was way over 50% most of those old warehouses are million pound flats now Think I've told you this before, G, Bristol docks back in 1982 and 1983, we had a company called BSM, on contract for us to control the pests/vermin for them. Kin el, never seen so many rats and feral pigeons, along with loads of feral moggies, in one area!! With poisoning, trapping plus a bit of air rifling, we never seemed to make a dent in their numbers, even though we killed thousands!! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bendigo 1,097 Posted September 2 Author Report Share Posted September 2 I'm not sure how this pigeon is still alive. The border has a pathological hatred for it....none of the others just this one. Even the lab has retrieved it a couple of times. We call this pigeon 'lonely man' as every time we get him a girlfriend he beats her up and shags her to death. He's now moved into the house and lives on top of the washing machine 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WataWalloper 3,843 Posted September 2 Report Share Posted September 2 1 hour ago, Bendigo said: I'm not sure how this pigeon is still alive. The border has a pathological hatred for it....none of the others just this one. Even the lab has retrieved it a couple of times. We call this pigeon 'lonely man' as every time we get him a girlfriend he beats her up and shags her to death. He's now moved into the house and lives on top of the washing machine Fcuking ring it’s neck, killing hens, I’d throw it in with a goshawk haha see how it likes getting fcuked haha Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bendigo 1,097 Posted September 2 Author Report Share Posted September 2 4 hours ago, WataWalloper said: Fcuking ring it’s neck, killing hens, I’d throw it in with a goshawk haha see how it likes getting fcuked haha Mrs won't let me kill it. She baked it a fckin birthday cake. Any animal that moves into our house lives the high life 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Franks dad 2,228 Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago Missus sort of captured one in Bath centre yesterday ,she didn’t zoom in so I cropped it . 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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