by johnnymarin | Oct 6, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
The Tennessee-Florida game is this week. No one wants to talk about it and that’s fine. One program is managed by a dull Battletoad whose idea of a rallying cry is a garbage can. The other spent most of his offseason taking offense at the implication that he looked like a man who posed nude on a shark. Neither is living up to expectations at places that desperately want a likable winner, and neither is happy.
This game will be like watching two pigeons fight over a half-eaten chicken wing. No one respects the pigeons to begin with, because they are pigeons. Both are poorly armed and equipped for the fight, because again: are pigeons. As an SEC East rivalry, the entire exercise is an exercise in cannibalism. As a fight over position in the blighted SEC East, it is a futile fight with very little meat on the bone to be won.
Bystanders will be mildly horrified, only mildly, because this game doesn’t have the gravity to merit full horror.
What it will have: The head coach of one team hawking barbecue sauce in the stadium’s concession stands. Jim McElwain’s recipe can now be yours in the form of Mombo3 barbecue sauce, named for McElwain’s mom, and for the number of children the McElwain family have, and definitely not for field goals. Nope. Definitely not a 3 for endless field goals to end offensive drives.
Reading over it, it sounds like this is a production of McElwain’s wife Karen and Marty Hurwitz, who is some dude who used to manage Raquel Welch, but who now lives in Sarasota. (We would put money on there being at least five dudes in Sarasota who say they used to manage Raquel Welch.)
When asked to describe the sauce, Hurwitz, who did not think of the football implications of this at all, gave the Gainesville Sun this:
He describes it as “perfume for the mouth. Sweet at first, then tangy and finally a kick at the end.”
That is correct. The Gators’ barbecue sauce starts sweet, but then turns bitter and ends with a kick. No, this is perfect. The branding is perfect, don’t change a damn thing, not at all. Tennessee at Florida will be broadcast at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS, and Jim McElwain definitely did not pose nude atop a shark this offseason. He says it wasn’t him, and that offends him and his family when you say it.
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by johnnymarin | Oct 5, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
Only two birds made it back to West Cumbria on the day from Portland after the 8.30am liberation on Saturday.
Ian, who flies with wife Denise, clocked a blue hen at 4.54pm after the 284 miles flight. The only other bird on the day homed to the Salterbeck loft of Graham Best at 6.46pm.
Ian, who has enjoyed a tremendous season, is leading the race for the coveted Big Cup in the Derwent Valley Federation ahead of this weekend’s final race from Windrush. His winning bird was bred in the stock loft and prior to the Gold Ring test had six races, only missing Flookburgh 1 and Southport.
Flying to the perch she is a Kees Bosua pigeon, her sire being bred by Paul Fisher Blackpool out of two of his best pigeons named The Joker and Princess Kees responsible for many winners. The dam was bought at Premier Stud Ed Sittner’s (Kees Bosua) sale in Blackpool. She is out of two principle pigeons namely Big Daddy and Blue Belle.
Ian says: “The parents of this hen have bred me several winners, one being my West Cumbria Amalgamation bird of the year in 2015 and 2016. He was also an RPRA Cumbria Region award runner-up last year to a loft mate.
“His nestmate has also scored many times for me in the Club, Fed and Amal.”
Ian collected £3,000 for winning the race, plus another £3,000 as the breeder.
He was also seventh at 8.44am on Sunday morning with a blue white flight hen which earned him £350 and also a further £350 for breeding her. She is also a Kees Bosua pigeon bred in the stock loft from two of Paul Fisher’s birds which were gifted to him.
Ian sent four birds, all bred by him, and clocked two of them while a third was reported after being found on the Wirral.
Twelve birds were clocked on the Sunday with three by Richard Martindale and George ‘Pal’ Lawman; two by John and Liz Walters and two by Joe Fitzsimmons and son.
After the total pay-out the Gold Ring organiser Danny Rodgers will hand nearly £500 to the Henderson Suite at West Cumberland Hospital.
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by johnnymarin | Oct 4, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
“Please don’t curse me. Uncle, please forgive me. I made this mistake for the first time in my life. I will not repeat it. After taking away your pigeons I haven’t been able to study well. My mother also scolded me. I will repay your loss after I get a job… I am giving them back. I am even giving you my pigeons…”
This is a portion of the note Binu Philip found outside his house a week after he lost 10 rare pigeons costing nearly Rs 48,000. 44-year-old Binu, a manager at a showroom for tiles, collects rare species of pigeons, and his pets are priced at around Rs 1 lakh. On September 4, while Binu and family were away from their house in Venjaramoodu in Thiruvananthapuram, 10 pigeons went missing.
The theft was discovered when Binu’s friend, who was feeding the birds while Binu was away, came to the house and found the enclosure broken into and some birds missing. Binu immediately filed a complaint with the police.
On Tuesday evening, at around 7pm, some of Binu’s neighbours saw two persons on a motorcycle throw a box into Binu’s compound.
When they opened up the box, they found pigeons inside, as well as a plaintive note of apology.
“The note was written in pencil, on a ruled sheet torn from a notebook. The person who wrote it mentioned that he had visited my house once. I think it might be some school boys. The neighbours couldn’t recognise the bike riders as they had covered their faces,” says Binu.
Among the pigeons that accompanied the plaintive note, says Binu, only five were among the rare birds that he lost. “There were another four pigeons in the box. But these were regular pigeons, and were ill too. Two of them died soon after,” he says.
Even among the five rare birds that were returned, one bird’s feathers had been badly cut off.
Binu suspects that his remaining birds have been sold off, as the writer of the note offers to repay him after getting a job.
The note makes another plaintive plea for forgiveness. “I just have my mother at home. She scolded me a lot. Please forgive me I will not do it again,” says the letter.
However, Binu says that the losses to him have been too large for him to withdraw his police complaint. “The pigeons that are still missing are worth Rs 25,000,” he says.
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by johnnymarin | Oct 3, 2017 | Bird Netting
PLANS to install netting at an iconic Knutsford building in an attempt to move pigeons on have been agreed by a town council committee.
The window areas of the Gaskell Memorial Tower at the Belle Époque will be blocked by netting, similar to that at The Courthouse, to deny the birds access.
The tower and surrounding buildings have become overrun with ever-increasing flocks of pigeons, furthering the issue of pigeon fouling in the town centre.
Members of the town council’s assets and operations committee voted to allocate almost £6,000 to the project, which would also see blunted spikes installed to prevent roosting.
Town clerk Adam Keppel-Green wrote in a report to members: “The committee has previously discussed the issue of pigeon fouling within the town centre and the environment committee is looking at town centre-wide options to reduce the overall pigeon population.
“It is proposed to install netting to the window areas on the tower, building and side building to prevent birds infesting the area. The netting will enclose the affected area and deny the birds access.
“This will involve installing steel fixings at each corner and at 500mm intervals to which wire and netting is then attached. There are existing areas of netting on the building already. Netting would be translucent to minimise any visual detraction from the listed building.
“Bird point would be affixed to the top ledges of the tower, ledges on the tower and on the piping around the building. The points are blunted and do not harm the birds but prevent it from being able to balance which encourages them to find a new place to roost.
“Whilst installing the netting and bird point existing bird fouling in the areas would be cleaned up.
“The council’s agent would oversee the works and arrange for listed building consent if required by the conservation officer.
“The cost of the works is £5,934.07.”
The council’s environment committee voted last month to explore further the installation of dovecotes in the town centre, with a budget of £2,600.
Installation will follow discussions with businesses and groups, and will allow for easier destruction of eggs to control the population growth.
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by johnnymarin | Oct 2, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
KANPUR: Now, birds are not free to travel on roadways buses. If any bird is found to be travelling on bus window it will liable to buy a valid ticket for its journey to nowhere. One bird can sit anytime to rest after its long flight but the Avian’s very presence inside the bus will not be forgivable. It is generally seen how the birds come and sit on the moving vehicles and quickly fly after a few seconds. However, a state government bus cannot put up with this haughtiness of the flying avis.
There is a strict rule for ticketing of the birds in Tamil Nadu buses. That’s why a pigeon sitting on the state corporation bus window was fined for travelling without a ticket. The conductor was issued with a memo. The passenger denied the presence of the pigeon when he boarded the bus. During the course of the ticket checking a pigeon was found with an inebriated passenger in the bus. In accordance with the rule of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, it is imperative to pay one-fourth of the whole fare in case one person travels with more than thirty pigeons.
Just as none can put control on free air, free sun, the free movement so as a pigeon’s free movement cannot be checked calculatingly. The birds have total freedom to fly in the sky, to sit at its desired spot and rest at its nest after the darkness. The bus conductor insisted upon the absence of the pigeon from the passenger while getting on the bus. Unsatisfied with this point of the conductor, the officials in the rank of inspector issued him a memo. It seems just as a human being is nothing without the proof of Aadhaar Card so as the unshackled bird was carrying a punishment for without ticket travel.
About Pigeon Patrol:
Pigeon Patrol Products & Services is the leading manufacturer and distributor of bird deterrent (control) products in Canada. Pigeon Patrol products have solved pest bird problems in industrial, commercial, and residential settings since 2000, by using safe and humane bird deterrents with only bird and animal friendly solutions. At Pigeon Patrol, we manufacture and offer a variety of bird deterrents, ranging from Ultra-flex Bird Spikes with UV protection, Bird Netting, 4-S Gel and the best Ultrasonic and audible sound devices on the market today.
Voted Best Canadian wholesaler for Bird Deterrent products four years in a row.
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