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Put down these nuisance pigeons



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Mitchell Street,
Sowerby Bridge.

I READ your item about pigeons ("'Dive-bomb' pigeons face chop", Courier, April 5).
The council put a breeding hut at Halifax bus station but doesn't take the eggs from the nests.

Pigeons breed three or four times a year, with two eggs to a nest every 18 days.

Come on, council, get your act together and put them down. They are not racing pigeons and I am fed up of ducking and diving in Halifax.

John Mitchell
(ex-pigeon racer)



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  • Last Updated: 07 May 2008 9:26 AM
  • Source: Evening Courier
  • Location: Halifax
 
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Barry,

07/05/2008 16:11:55
Put down the pigeons? Better still put down the filthy scratters who drop their food waste on the floor giving the pigeons something to eat. If they have no food, they move on......to somewhere where there is food
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The Minstrel Boy,

Halifax 07/05/2008 19:28:18
It is only the pidgeons cleaning up the food waste from our town centre that keeps the rat population down. If the birds are removed, the rats will move in. I know which I'd rather have! Anyway, the people of Halifax are quite used to getting dumped on, usually by Calderdale MBC.
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Bilabong,

07/05/2008 19:55:43
John Mitchell [ex pigeon racer] If your fed up of ducking and diving in Halifax I suggest you start shopping locally in Sowerby Bridge....
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Barry,

07/05/2008 21:38:42
Minstrel, if you remove the food so the pigeons have nothing to eat, there'll be nothing to eat for the rats either!
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Darren,

07/05/2008 23:12:57
Fed up of ducking?
Don't blame the pigeons - who are stupid as stupid can be - blame the fat chavs dropping their Greggs slop on the floor, blame the offspring of the aforesaid running after the pigeons making them fly off smack into other pedestrians, and blame such as the old people who feed these rats with wings by North Bridge - look out for the old lady in the benny hat
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Scouse1,

Halifax 08/05/2008 20:13:53
Why doesn't the useless Environment Officer for Calderdale have the guts, and set some poison bait on the roof tops of Woolshops and exterminate these disease carrying vermin once and for all,then maybe,just maybe, we will have a Council to applaud.
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Bilabong,

08/05/2008 23:28:19
Scouse1 The reason your idea is not implicated is because this method then causes the birds to die on the rooftops falling into troughings and blocking them causing all sorts of problems , also the birds could die in flight and drop out of the sky causing serious or even fatal injury to someone below... Anyway what right have we to impose a death sentence on a bird ? Who will be your next victim when all the pigeons are killed ?
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Ex Bradford Lass,

09/05/2008 12:44:59
Bilabong? FATAL???? I can't see that a small bird like a pigeon falling on someone could bruise them, let alone kill them; although they might get a scratch if the bird's claw hits the person's face - possibly
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Scouse1,

Halifax 09/05/2008 21:56:48
Bilabong, I want to live in the fantasy world you live in, please advise what Planet ?
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