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Meet Pigeon

This little fella, a racing Pigeon appeared around our bird feeder just over a week ago.  He has spent the hot days laying in our bird bath and is feeding well from below the feeders (the sparrows and tits do tend to through the seed everywhere). We can see that he is ringed but he's too timid for us to catch.  We thought we could try encouraging him down from his roust on our roof to the open shed.  That way we might catch him and find out who his owner is - no luck though.  We have also heard rumour that if away from their original home and roast for too long the birds are classed as pretty useless and it could have it's neck rung on return.  So, not being knowledgeable on these things we are a little reluctant now to catch him.  If he likes it here, then he's welcome, he's free to choose.