Pigeons In Scotland

[Walter swanston]

In an article in today's Herald the journalist Mark Smith makes the following comment "i the 1950s thousands of working men in Scotland kept Pigeons and they were one of the country's most beloved birds.Now they are largely reviled for no good reason"

If this comment is true and I am not sure about it at all would any fancier on here are to venture an opinion.

[Colin8]

They are reviled because of the likes of Bill oddie, who put them down at every opportunity they never put forward the positive of pigeon folk and their birds or the thousands of pounds raised to help various charities

[doomaloon]

obviously this has been badly reserched or maybe its another RSPB undercover job

[Roland]

Oddie a real scruffy odd one that! Often say to the wife he looks Like a right *expletive removed* .... and even on tele you feel you could smell him!

Ken Livingston 'Flying Rats' saying also that they clean 350 TONS off Nelsons column every year,

Well any one with half a mind a mind could simple realise the hieght alone stacked up would be tremendous.

More realistic for a passing thought That would mean a Ton a day dropping on Nelsons head, Yet twupplups and twerps believe it!

 

Was nigh 150.000 fanciers in the 50's 60's. Unbelievablely the 23.000 fanciers send far more to the races than they did!

[greenbar]

To many people don't know enough about pigeon racing,and pigeon keepers.the money raised for good causes,and what the pigeons did during the war,we know who the bloody flying rats are,

[Kyleakin Lofts]

If it is true it will be down to bad press.

 

Streeters and poor maintenance, given the recent hospital scare, makes people think they are disease ridden. Seagulls cause as much problems.

 

The computer age and people having grown up without keeping animals of any sort or even having an interest in the outdoors create an ignorance which is difficult to shift.

 

It is costly to produce good press for our racing pigeons in order to set them apart.

[Mattydoos79]

If it is true it will be down to bad press.

 

Streeters and poor maintenance, given the recent hospital scare, makes people think they are disease ridden. Seagulls cause as much problems.

 

The computer age and people having grown up without keeping animals of any sort or even having an interest in the outdoors create an ignorance which is difficult to shift.

 

It is costly to produce good press for our racing pigeons in order to set them apart.

 

There’s too many seagulls in our village and our village folk complain about the droppings on the car, well stop feeding them then they won’t breed as much. I don’t understand some people moan about them yet they feed them. The pigeon get bad press but blaming a small harmless bird when the crows and seagulls are nasty ones stealing food etc attacking small birds too.

[Kyleakin Lofts]

There’s too many seagulls in our village and our village folk complain about the droppings on the car, well stop feeding them then they won’t breed as much. I don’t understand some people moan about them yet they feed them. The pigeon get bad press but blaming a small harmless bird when the crows and seagulls are nasty ones stealing food etc attacking small birds too.

 

Wildlife adapts.

 

You live in a coastal area, but others live in towns and cities. The seagulls travel far inland to feed on the likes of McDonalds, etc strewn about the streets and even raid the bins themselves. No deliberate feeding, just council cuts and the clean ups being more spread out. When I spot a fox and try to show the kids, even from two fields away they hear me and scarper. Town foxes come up to you to be fed.

 

Nature perseveres to overcome all difficulties and the wildlife learns to live alongside mankind. A deer was found dead on Princes Street, Edinburgh.

[frankdooman jnr]

I think in this day of easy advertising via social media and news outlets someone who knows how to promote this fantastic sport needs to use the platforms that are currently available to show the modernisation that the sport is coming into ie explain ets the modern feeding sciences and training methods in order to promote the sport in a more modern light as I feel to many people see it as an old flat cap man shouting at the kids on a Saturday for playing football when the Doos are due

 

A new perspective on pigeons has to be advertised to the nation,We can’t live on what the birds did in the wars before most of us were born and I beg that the unions would adapt to this thinking and bring this amazing and historic sport into the modern day as it the only way the sport will survive

[STB]

Wildlife adapts.

 

You live in a coastal area, but others live in towns and cities. The seagulls travel far inland to feed on the likes of McDonalds, etc strewn about the streets and even raid the bins themselves. No deliberate feeding, just council cuts and the clean ups being more spread out. When I spot a fox and try to show the kids, even from two fields away they hear me and scarper. Town foxes come up to you to be fed.

 

Nature perseveres to overcome all difficulties and the wildlife learns to live alongside mankind. A deer was found dead on Princes Street, Edinburgh.

was it an old dear.

[Kyleakin Lofts]

was it an old dear.