Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Racing pigeon rescue
We have just spent two hours or our evening rescuing a trapped pigeon from our chimney. It was tagged, and fortunately unarmed after 2 days of fighting his way through 60 years of accumulated soot. It is a beautiful bird, different from our London pigeons. We have informed the relevant body. However, it could also be one from an Harringay loft, should you worry about a lost one. Basically it is safe, we gave him drink and food to give him strength and it flew over the Ladder roof. Could it be yours ?
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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I once spent much more time than that on a trapped bird. Was woken early by a great clattering about two feet from my ear. Once I had come out from under the duvet as it turned out not to be the axeman, we worked out that a bird was trapped behind the boarded-up fireplace which had a gas fire in front. The plaster sheeting was screwed in tight, so the only answer was to coax it out of the 4" hole for the gas chimney.
As a bird-brain, it couldn't figure out this exit. I slowly filled the fireplace with empty bottles and anything else to hand, so raising the level. Finally was able to grab it and somehow hoik it out. Carried outside and it soared away in a scene worthy of any movie ending.
So then we capped off the chimney with mesh, in a never-again move. One to copy if you're on the roof, folks.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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It was tagged, and fortunately unarmed after 2 days of fighting his way through 60 years of accumulated soot
Shell shocked from the trenches, I expect, but then that would be more like 100 years of soot. Fortunately, TBD, it wasn't one of the 1915 armed squadron of drone or suicide belt birds. They really were armed, to the teeth or the gizzards. Their contribution to the Great Slaughter is too often underplayed. Michaels Gove & Morpurgo and Blackadder, some curricular and filmic revision is called for, I think.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Perhaps it was the new King of Rome
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