by johnnymarin | Aug 14, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. – A tagged pigeon is on the loose in South Salem and some Good Samaritans are hopeful of reuniting it with its handler.
A South Salem resident reported to Lost Pets of Westchester County on Tuesday morning that a pigeon had flown onto her deck in South Salem and was approachable before eventually flying off to a nearby tree.
The woman reported to the organization that she was able to get a look at the band on its leg, which bore the characters AU 2017 and 5969.
According to the National Pigeon Association, domestic pigeons with individually identifiable leg bands are registered with one of several National Pigeon Organizations. The AU on the band stands for the American Racing Pigeon Union.
Anyone who may be missing their pigeon or has information about the missing bird can contact Lost Pets of Westchester County here.
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by johnnymarin | Aug 13, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
THERE was a flood of maximums when Swan B won 2-1 at George A in a high-quality Section 1 encounter.
No fewer than five players clanged off sixes as the visitors kept up their title challenge with a 27-24, 29-24, 25-29 success.
Gary Bailey (4-6-5) and Simon King (5-6-3) were Swan’s top men, but the hosts had more maximums, through James Morrison (5-4-6), Kevin Stuart (4-4-6) and Luke Purcell (6-2-3).
Leaders Three Pigeons had their wings surprisingly clipped in a 3-0 defeat at home to Red Lion A.
An impressive haul from Eddie Edwards (6-4-5) was in vain for the hosts, while Eddie Lacey (4-5-4) was Lion’s top performer.
Fellow high-fliers Woodman also crashed to a 3-0 loss, at Black Prince.
Rob Bradford (4-5-5) led the way in the 31-26, 23-21, 26-20 romp.
Gladiators A put down a marker with a 3-0 triumph at New Club A in the meeting of the Premier Section’s top two.
Kevin Giles (5-6-5) bagged 16 dolls, backed up by a baker’s dozen from Andy Beal (6-3-4).
Roger Goodall (4-4-6) was top dog for New Club, but it could not prevent the 26-22, 30-27, 35-31 defeat.
Swan A’s hopes of retaining their title are still intact following a 25-22, 26-25, 33-27 whitewash at home to Garsington Sports.
Jon Townsend (4-5-5) was their star.
There are still five teams in the Section 2 title race.
Six Bells E, helped by Andrew Hudson’s first six, lead the pack, but dropped a vital home point to lowly Vikings Sports A.
Bullnose Morris A were fortunate to win 2-1 at Black Horse C.
The hosts looked well-placed chasing in the opening two legs, only to collapse late on to lose 22-21, 17-16, 18-21.
Long-time leaders Chequers C fell to their sixth defeat in seven with a 2-1 reverse at Donnington Club A.
Mark Simpson (5-4-4) led the way for the hosts, who bounced back from losing the first leg 27-18 to take the next two 24-11, 21-19.
Section 3 leaders Chequers A collapsed dramatically to a 3-0 defeat at King & Queen, for whom Simon Jones (3-5-5) starred.
New Club B failed to cash in as they lost 2-1 at Tiddington Cricket Club.
The visitors won the opener 15-12, but Tiddington levelled 12-11 before taking the decider on three sticks after a 16-16 draw.
White House are just in touch after coming away from Six Bells A Kidlington with a 2-1 win, with leg scores of 21-18, 16-21, 20-15.
THE last unbeaten record in the league came to an end when Section 7 leaders Red Lion B Yarnton lost 2-1 at home to Northway Club B.
The visitors took advantage of Lion’s low scores to win the first two legs 13-11, 15-10.
Lion hit back to avoid the whitewash by taking the final leg 15-10.
Mick Walsh (4-4-5) led the way for Masons Arms A as they came from behind to beat George B in Section 4.
Masons lost the first leg 19-17, but recovered well to win the next two 21-17, 25-13.
Rock bottom Democrats A got off to the worse possible start against Swan C, when they could only muster a set of four in the opening leg.
They improved in the next two legs, hitting 11 in both, but it was nowhere near enough as the Swan won all three legs with 16, 14 and 18.
Bullnose Morris B’s slide in Section 5 continued as they lost their second game on the bounce, having won their previous nine.
Masons Arms B were the victors this time, winning the first two legs 18-17, 18-14 before Bullnose grabbed a point in the final leg 12-10.
Chequers B secured their first 3-0 home win of the season after beating Cricketers A.
Steve Jenkins (3-4-5) top-scored.
Florence Park’s ten-week winning streak in Section 6 came to an end when Original Swan A beat them 2-1 on their own patch.
Swan won the first two legs 15-13, 15-14, before Park won the last leg 18-14, which still gives hope of a title charge.
In the Greene King Cup semi-finals, Swan A had a comfortable 2-0 win over Section 2 side Crown, while Gladiators had a hard tougher battle to beat Three Pigeons.
Gladiators set and won the first leg 29-20, with Pigeons levelling in the next leg 28-22.
In the deciding leg Pigeons set with 25, which Gladiators matched.
In the three sticks, Pigeons could hit only nine which Glads passed with three players to spare.
In the last four of the Jim Whitbread Cup, Littlemore British Legion beat Vikings Sports C 2-0, while Donnington C overcame Florence Park 2-0.
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by johnnymarin | Aug 12, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
GAUTENG Pigeon Union (GPU) liberated the pigeons from Springfontein in the Free State on Saturday.
When the pigeons were liberated at 7.15am (young birds) and 8am (open birds), the skies were clear and the wind blowing a light north westerly. On the way back to the lofts the winds were blowing north easterly and south easterly in places.
This race was also the GPU’s second last middle distance race of the season.
Springfontein is an average distance of 518km for Riverpark which had 13 members flying 156 pigeons in the young bird race. The young bird race winning pigeon had a nett flying time of six hours 33 minutes and 33 seconds, which is 80km/h.
With his fourth young bird win under his hat, Blackie Swart’s Dark Check cock GPU 2016 12502 beat Doves Nest Guest House’s (Gawie Botha) Blue Bar cock GPU 2016 12438 by a margin of only 19 seconds. There were only five seconds between Doves Nest Guest House and Tallies Lofts (Johan Taljaard) in the third position.
The top 30 positions on the result sheet took 20 minutes and 19 seconds to fill up:
Blackie Swart 1st, 8th, 13th, 14th, 27th; Doves Nest Guest House (Gawie Botha) 2nd, 4th, 12th, 23rd, 24th, 26th; Tallies Lofts (Johan Taljaard) 3rd, 6th, 17th; Hilton Pitout 5th; Reinhold Brichta 7th, 20th, 22nd, 29th; Fred van Rensburg 9th, 25th, 30th; Sky Lofts (Corrie Moller) 10th, 11th, 16th; G & E Lofts (Graham Cheary & Elaine Russell) 15th, 21st; Bakgat Lofts (Danalien Snyman) 18th, 19th, and 28th.
In the open race, the club had 17 members flying 261 pigeons. The winning pigeon had a nett flying time of six hours 32 minutes and 22 seconds. With his second old bird win for the season Tallies Lofts (Johan Taljaard) pipped Hilton Pitout by two minutes and 54 seconds. Tallies Lofts and Hilton Pitout have now each won two of the open bird races this season.
The top 30 positions took only 14 minutes and 47 seconds to fill:
Tallies Lofts (Johan Taljaard) 1st, 10th, 19th, 23rd; Hilton Pitout 2nd, 8th; Albert Neilson 3rd, 20th; Beano Daschner 4th, 29th; Pine Pienaar 5th, 15th, 21st, 26th; Doves Nest Guest House (Gawie Botha) 6th, 11th, 16th, 17th, 22nd; Henry Mostert 7th, 18th; Sky Lofts 9th, 27th; Blackie Swart 12th; Connie Coertse 13th, 14th, 25th,, 28th; G & E Lofts (Graham Cheary & Elaine Russell) 24th and Fred van Rensburg 30th.
On Saturday the GPU will liberate the pigeons from Hanover in the Northern Cape. This is the last middle distance race of the season, about 660km for Riverpark members, and is also the derby race for the young birds.
This is the last race of the season for the young bird scheme as the balance of the races, long distance, are open bird races. Technically, Springfontein was the last young bird race for the season as the points from the derby race are allocated to the open bird scheme.
Riverpark will also have the second and last leg of their hat draw competition during this race.
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by johnnymarin | Aug 11, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
Honouring freedom fighters and their family members, distribution of commendation certificates to 183 government servants and welfare assistance worth Rs. 10.56 lakh to weaker sections marked the Independence Day celebrations at the Mahatma Gandhi Stadium here on Tuesday.
District Collector V. Sampath hoisted the National Flag and inspected the guard of honour presented by police personnel.
Mr. Sampath, and P. Rajan, Superintendent of Police, released white pigeons. Later they honoured the freedom fighters.
The Collector distributed welfare assistance provided by Different abled welfare department, backward class welfare, revenue, rural development and other departments to the people belonging to weaker sections.
G. Subbulakshmi and Ramakrishnan, both Deputy Commissioners of Police, R. Sukumar, DRO, R. Vaithinathan, Assistant Collector (training) and other officials, were present. Students from various schools presented cultural programmes at the end.
R. Sadheesh, Commissioner, hoisted the National Flag on the Corporation premises and paid floral tributes to the portrait of Gandhiji.
He gave away commendation certificates to the staff who had completed 25 years of service and also special awards to the SSLC and Plus Two toppers.
K. Pandi, Managing Director, Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) hoisted the National Flag at the head office. He gave away special award and commendation certificates to 11 drivers for accident-free driving, 36 conductors for maximum ticket collection.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Pandi said there was a marked increase in the revenue of the Corporation compared to previous years. The corporation was also able to save much in the diesel front, thanks to the cooperation extended by the bus crew.
At the Noorul Islam Madrasa at Suramangalam in the city, M. A. Haroon Rasheed, Muthavalli, hoisted the National Flag. Moulvi A. K. Kamaluddin Baqavi, chief Imam, Azad Nagar Mosque, and Moulvi J. A. Nainar Mohammad Baqavi, vice-principal of the Madrasa spoke. Qari Abrar Ahmed Qasimi, principal, hoisted the National Flag at the Markazhul Uloom Al-Islamiya Arabic College at Hasthampatti in the city.
In Namakkal, District Collector M. Asia Mariam hoisted the National Flag, at a colourful function held at the district sports stadium.She inspected guard of honour presented by police personnel.
Ms. Mariam released pigeons and honoured freedom fighters and their family members. She distributed commendation certificates to 31 police personnel and 108 government staff and also welfare assistance worth Rs. 57.73 lakh provided under the different government schemes to 136 beneficiaries.
School students presented cultural programmes.
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by Ryan Ponto | Aug 10, 2017 | Bird Netting
A lane behind a number of popular Swansea city centre restaurants has been labelled an environmental threat because overflowing bins there are claimed to be attracting rats.
The lane in Castle Street is where a large amount of rubbish from several sources is left out for collection in the same place.
Kevin Casey is a resident of Baron’s Court which overlooks it and was extremely concerned by the situation.
“I used to live in Townhill and people say that Townhill is a dump, but it’s heaven compared to this place,” said Mr Casey.
“There is a lane behind a number of shops and restaurants in Castle Square and it is absolutely filthy.
“There is rubbish all over the place and there has even been rats there.
“There’s about three bins that are overflowing and there has been some dead pigeons on the floor for weeks.”
“I know the council come and clean some of it up but they don’t solve the root cause of the problem.
“They need to send enforcement officers and tell people to stop leaving rubbish all over the floor.
“I have complained to the culprits. The Council are soft and just don’t do enough.
“There are another three restaurants going in there in the near future and I dread to think how much worse it is going to be.”
But the owners of various restaurants and businesses in the area said they were unsure as to who was responsible.
“It is absolutely disgusting but we don’t have a lot of rubbish ourselves,” said Anna Redfern, the owner of Cinema & Co.
“It really needs to be cleaned up because it is an environmental risk and there is often a lot of glass on the floor.”
A restaurant owner, who asked not to be named, said: “We don’t know who the culprits are but it is annoying us as well and we have been on to the council.
“We have four bins round the back and we always put our rubbish out properly.
“But as for the main culprit I couldn’t tell you.”
A Swansea Council spokesman said: “Our cleansing team regularly visit this area to ensure that fly-tipped waste is removed, but we will continue to monitor the lane and will contact businesses there to remind them of their waste management responsibilities.
“There have also been a number of incidents recently where illegally parked cars have blocked our waste collection vehicles from accessing the lane to pick up commercial waste, so we’ve alerted our parking services team. Anyone caught illegally parking there runs the risk of a penalty charge notice.”
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.
Contact Info: 1- 877– 4– NO-BIRD (www.pigeonpatrol.ca)
