Nina 101 Posted May 23, 2009 Report Posted May 23, 2009 Hello Everyone. I am babysitting & feeding/watering two stray racing pigeons (they both have little red rubber bands on their feet) according to your site this means they are racers?? (Reported both as strays through relevant societies on Tuesday, but they are rather slow in contacting me). Anyway they decided to roost on my bathroom window sill in North Wales 5 days ago. (left them alone until day 3, or 4 in the hope that in the meantime they would recover and then fly home, but they didn't). They are now in my spare bedroom in a cat cage ( one of my cats almost caught one of them, so had to do something; trying to keep the cats out of there too is a nightmare, they can smell them and have been constantly sitting outside the bedroom door). Not only that, the pigeons are not terribly grateful, they keep growling at me every time I give them food and water!!! Talk about metaphorically biting the hand that feeds you Managed to trace the owner of the GB 80 D3 1211 (Red Checker) bird via information on this site; re: looking for telephone number printed on birds wing (I do think the Racing Pigeon Society should mention this via their reporting procedures, but don't, perhaps one of you keen pigeon people could mention this to them sometime?) and hopefully the GB bird will be winging (metaphor again ) its way home quite soon. No luck with the Scottish bird SU 08 A 5487 as it has no telephone number on its wings, or tail. How long can one keep a Scottish pigeon in a smallish cage, without the bird becoming poorly? What should I do if no-one contacts me?
Guest numpty01 Posted May 23, 2009 Report Posted May 23, 2009 firstly thanks nina for makeing the sffort to find owners of these birds im wondering were in north wales are you as a few flyers on here from around that area??????
pjc Posted May 23, 2009 Report Posted May 23, 2009 where abouts are you? There maybe a local member on here who can look after the birds pending there return. Well done for taking the trouble to report them.
abbeypap Posted May 23, 2009 Report Posted May 23, 2009 SU 08 A 5487 Bird come from Irvine H/S Ayrshire, club secretary R. Thornhill 01294 216615
Nina 101 Posted May 23, 2009 Author Report Posted May 23, 2009 I'm in the Snowdonia National Park, close to Porthmadog. These birds by the way, although grumpy, are very beautiful; totally unlike your run of the mill scruffy old pigeons one sees often in town centres etc. I can now understand why pigeon fanciers are so keen.
just ask me Posted May 23, 2009 Report Posted May 23, 2009 come on lads surelly someone in the area that can help
Guest Freebird Posted May 23, 2009 Report Posted May 23, 2009 Hello Everyone. I am babysitting & feeding/watering two stray racing pigeons (they both have little red rubber bands on their feet) according to your site this means they are racers?? (Reported both as strays through relevant societies on Tuesday, but they are rather slow in contacting me). Anyway they decided to roost on my bathroom window sill in North Wales 5 days ago. (left them alone until day 3, or 4 in the hope that in the meantime they would recover and then fly home, but they didn't). They are now in my spare bedroom in a cat cage ( one of my cats almost caught one of them, so had to do something; trying to keep the cats out of there too is a nightmare, they can smell them and have been constantly sitting outside the bedroom door). Not only that, the pigeons are not terribly grateful, they keep growling at me every time I give them food and water!!! Talk about metaphorically biting the hand that feeds you Managed to trace the owner of the GB 80 D3 1211 (Red Checker) bird via information on this site; re: looking for telephone number printed on birds wing (I do think the Racing Pigeon Society should mention this via their reporting procedures, but don't, perhaps one of you keen pigeon people could mention this to them sometime?) and hopefully the GB bird will be winging (metaphor again ) its way home quite soon. No luck with the Scottish bird SU 08 A 5487 as it has no telephone number on its wings, or tail. How long can one keep a Scottish pigeon in a smallish cage, without the bird becoming poorly? What should I do if no-one contacts me? Not long without a wee dram(evil)only kidding, well done for taking these birds under your wing, Ha ha!
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