i remeber my dad getting in a lovely grizzle about 5 years ago the bird was a few years old, he reported it and it was from south wales, the bird had topped the fed a few weeks earlier had been lost from a race in france (rennes if my memmory serves correct),
my dad arranged for it to be libbberated about 10 miles from home, when i came home from, work there was this bird sitting on the side in the kitchen, as if he lived there, was funny at the time, he had to send for it in the end,