average farmer
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- North Notts
Anyone else noticing more than usual dead pigeons in the field or around the yard. I’ve seen a few in the fields and the combine driver noticed to.
Strange pigeons
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Wilksy
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- Location
- East Riding
It might be acorns, every year they gorge on them and they get canker in there throats
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Not seen much vermin about lately in general, unless it's just round here .
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Sooner they become an endangered species the better. Vermin.
Never knew this...
TripleSix
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- Helmsley, North Yorkshire
There was one walking around in the road today in town.
I ran it over with the combine.
Unlucky.
I ran it over with the combine.
Unlucky.
Devil's advocate
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- Location
- Posh side of Barnsley
We had a racing pigeon die inside a grain trailer. Presumed exhaustion from racing too far, may be acorns.
Wilksy
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- Location
- East Riding
Yes been shooting some decent bags of pigeons and majority are young un's i think they've had a good summer, and still at it seen a few nest building
middlepiggy
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Noticed the same .. a lot of flightless pigeons, huddled up as if cold and slow to move.
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- Scottish Highlands
Back in the '60s, it was seed dressings. I was feeding my goshawk on shot feral pigeons from a quarry and it started to have fits. I sent the body off to the veterinary laboratory and they offered to do an autopsy for a fee. I said not to bother as I could guess. So they did it anyway. Came back BHC, DDT, etc, but that's not used any more. W hen birds die like this it is usually starvation, disease, or some form of mass poisoning (acorns). But cwis will blame farming anyway.
Maybe - and it's a big maybe - Covid cross infection, if it originated from bats and it crossed to humans, then why not cross-over to
birds, taking into acccount the amount of scavenging off waste food in towns ??
Please don't start that one
I come on some of these threads to try and get away from the whole covid thing.....Devil's advocate
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- Location
- Posh side of Barnsley
Lets hope not, we have/had a chicken industry.
I'm not seeing loads of dead pigeons
If it was going to happen surely it would have happened in China, years ago.
- Location
- Cirencester
Seen plenty here, a lot more than usual, did think it was a resident pair of peregrine but plenty under trees, assumed shooting was the cause but yes, they seem everywhere when cultivating. We have had an amazing crop of acorns this year so would explain it.
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- Loading....
If so lets get some lab to make a covid cross infection that only affects the flys that sit on cattle!
HolzKopf
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- Kent&Snuffit
There's a lot of dead pigeons in that field
They're gulls
Boys or gulls, there's a lot of dead pigeons in that field
with acknowledgement to Spike Milligan for allowing me to bend his joke a little
They're gulls
Boys or gulls, there's a lot of dead pigeons in that field
with acknowledgement to Spike Milligan for allowing me to bend his joke a little