Nowt as strange as pigeons

[The White Rapido Man]

what do you think to this!!!

 

I got a stray in on Sunday morning (in S*expletive removed*horpe)....the birds was I.D'ed and the owner contacted. He was based in Tonypaddy -  Wales.(some 200 miles to the west of me)

 

As luck would have it, I hd some friends going to Swansea on Tuesday.....so I rested, fed, and watered the bird...and had it tossed oustide Swansea on Tuesday lunchtime...

 

I called the owner who was expecting the bird.

 

The following morning I go down to the loft with the feed tray......and this bird drops out of the sky and lands on it whilst in my hand.........................low and behold it was the Welsh bird.....who have come 200 miles accross unfamiliar country, and had come back to me........

 

I called the owner who was as amazed as me.........he told me the bird was a very well bred Stav Van Reet, and he said if I wanted it he will send me all of the pedigree papers etc..........

 

after that...............it obviously likes me!!!!......so I'll have it transfered and give it a good home.........................

 

I thought that that was amazing...................................fascinating are they!!!

 

 

Has anyone else got some strange stories like this to tell????  

 

 

  

[little sam]

my grandad this is ages ago before i was born got a stray in from scotland a nice mealy cock he phoned owner and the owner said it hadent done ennything special for him so my grandad flew it with the cocks and trained it up wih them and just for a bit of fun he entered it into the national and he won with them mealy cock lol  ;D ;D shame it was ages ago or i would have got a couple of babies from it lol and as my grandma told me she said the following week it got took by a hawk lol  ;D ;D

[Back garden fancier]

I had a phone call from a woman non fancier 200 miles away reporting a pigeon on her drive, and she had managed to catch it. After a minute I recognised her voice, and it was my brothers mother in law!!

[little sam]

hahahhahahahahahahahha ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Back garden fancier]

Chap at the club caught a stray which was eating scraps outside the local chip shop. He reported it and the owner said he would come for it. When asked if he knew the area, he said yes because he was a driver and delivered fish to ..........................you guessed it, the shop where the bird was picked up!!

[thunderboult]

i remeber years ago when i was a kid this old chap showing me this dutch cock he got , i'll tell you a story about this cock he said,  i sent it to lerwick in a race and he flew back to holland where he was from the guy out there fed it up and let it go about a week later and it flew back to south wales(although it took 2 days to get back)  

[Guest slugmonkey]

I had a friend who hit a bird while going to work one morning turned out to be his brothers

[The White Rapido Man]

just test out me new camera!!!

 

 

heres a photo of the welsh cock that flew 200 miles back to me acoss country, after only beibg in mny loft for 2 days!!

[Back garden fancier]

We think that pigeons only remember the loft, but the truth is they can remember lots of locations. In the wild this would be used to go back to good food sources and watering holes. They can probably "remember" hundreds of locations. It still knows exactly where it can from, it just prefers your loft now. An old fancier used to tell me that the clever pigeons were the ones that took their time to home, only the thick ones raced home blindly week after week!

[The White Rapido Man]

We think that pigeons only remember the loft, but the truth is they can remember lots of locations. In the wild this would be used to go back to good food sources and watering holes. They can probably "remember" hundreds of locations. It still knows exactly where it can from, it just prefers your loft now. An old fancier used to tell me that the clever pigeons were the ones that took their time to home, only the thick ones raced home blindly week after week!

 

 

very interesting........................ and validate the fact that pigeon have 'preliferal thinking' (think in 3 dimentions similar to us)...as proven in a recent scientific study.

[David Home]

what do you think to this!!!

 

I got a stray in on Sunday morning (in S*expletive removed*horpe)....the birds was I.D'ed and the owner contacted. He was based in Tonypaddy -  Wales.(some 200 miles to the west of me)

 

As luck would have it, I hd some friends going to Swansea on Tuesday.....so I rested, fed, and watered the bird...and had it tossed oustide Swansea on Tuesday lunchtime...

 

I called the owner who was expecting the bird.

 

The following morning I go down to the loft with the feed tray......and this bird drops out of the sky and lands on it whilst in my hand.........................low and behold it was the Welsh bird.....who have come 200 miles accross unfamiliar country, and had come back to me........

 

I called the owner who was as amazed as me.........he told me the bird was a very well bred Stav Van Reet, and he said if I wanted it he will send me all of the pedigree papers etc..........

 

after that...............it obviously likes me!!!!......so I'll have it transfered and give it a good home.........................

 

I thought that that was amazing...................................fascinating are they!!!

 

 

Has anyone else got some strange stories like this to tell????  

 

 

  

I had similar thing happen to me. Only the bird was from a loft 20mls away. My mate from our club worked just 2mls from this guy. Let it go. Bird returned to me. Did this twice. Then transfered the bird only for it to drop into the other guys loft first time I raced it.    :-/

 

 

[The White Rapido Man]

done the same!...................had strays in...and have kept them and flown them for several years.......then one day they suddenly realise that they dont live with you and go home............had this a couple of times!!!!!  

[Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS]

my dad bred a latebred and only let it out once and then sold it to a man in scotland, the bird got out and it was thick snow and bad winds in the middle of winter up there and not to bright down here in cornwall anyway guess what....

 

yes it turned up at dads loft the next evening think scotland to cornwall!

 

 

a bloke in my club had a irish stray his mate  took it to swansea and portsmouth and it came back through rough weather hard as  nails!!

[jimmy white]

def,, ;D  nowt as strange as pigeons

i got a pigeon home after 6 years ,lost  from cheltenham as a yearling ,,,it doesnt say much for its racing ability, but boy ;D what a memory ;D ;D ;D  [true]

[Back garden fancier]

Pigeons don't get "lost" they choose not to come home. ( unless they've been wired/hawked)

[jimmy white]

Pigeons don't get "lost" they choose not to come home. ( unless they've been wired/hawked)

 

with due respect ,, in my opinion[ especialy yb,s ] they do get" lost" in trying their hardest to get home

[celtic]

Have to agree with Jimmy, i don't think they choose to get lost intentionally, many's a yb probably just tired itself out trying to get home and ended up being further rather than nearer to it's home loft.

[Roland]

Had a dark chequer youngster in from the Netherlands. Owner didn't wanna spend money on it's return. So said keep it and he'd send the card etc. So trained it with my y/b's and it came well. Tossed it just before the first race 50 miles with the others and never sa it again. Informed it had returned home. This scenario often happens in this country too.

[jimmy white]

i was in truro, cornwall  visiting ,, for a week or so,,[ to a pigeon lady friend ;D] however we took her g children to the park and fed the pigeons etc ,, i spotted one with a ring on ,,caught it ,couldnt believe it,,it was a pentland fed bird [my own district in the lothians ] almost 500 miles away in a park ,,,wonder what odds ladbrokes would give for that ;D

[DJ]

i really enjoyed reading all the posts but it doesnt suprise me what some pigeons will do and the distances they will cover to get back to their lofts (or adopted lofts) ive had strays that have been with me for months and been transfered over to me only for them to decide to go back to their old lofts after 6 months or so (especially the foreign strays) but then i still have some strays with me that came here last year and are hopefully here to stay as some are now paired up with my own pigeons   one things for sure and that is that pigeons take some working out but thats all part of keeping pigeons as i see it and i wouldnt want it any other way, i only stumbled into keeping pigeons after a stray racer adopted my garden shed but i wouldnt be without them now          debbie

[Guest TAMMY_1]

Pigeons don't get "lost" they choose not to come home. ( unless they've been wired/hawked)

 

nonsense, plenty pigeons are reported hundreds of miles off course, they are not all chosing not to come home

[harky]

 

nonsense, plenty pigeons are reported hundreds of miles off course, they are not all chosing not to come home

 

well it would take a brave pigeon to come home to you MERRICK ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Roland]

But -  like children - they love and if too far from home will be full of zest by early next morning.

So I believe they choose to be care free and not com home.

Likewise old birds, they don't stay lost, if they want to home they will... yes sometimes elements, whatever cause, may decide they can't make it on the day etc. But they then decide whether to home or not! My firm belief.