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  • thetomahawkkid
    thetomahawkkid Posts: 763
    Hal1x said:
    Callumcafc said:
    I don’t remember there being so many in years past. Is it something to do with the way the pitch is being prepared nowadays that’s encouraging the pigeons?
    Didnt they used to pay for a bloke to come round every so often with hawks or something? When I was a "Valley Volunteer" they certainly had one.

    Anyroad.... "They put 50 tonne of shit on the foreign office roof, who suffers from nine known deceases.... etc"


    That brought back happy memories. Lovely little 70s EP from Genesis. Inside and Out is a fantsatic song (should have been on Wind & Wuthering in place of Your Own special Way)>
  • muppetman
    muppetman Posts: 287
    edited March 2023
    Will The Valley be renamed The Coop?  ;)
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,185
    What we should do is catch them , then drive them miles away then let them go. 
    The would never find their way back!!!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,860
    We need to replace Terry and Greg in the commentary box with Henry Blofeld.

    "There's a lovely pigeon bobbing along the touchline, completely impervious to the action going on around him. Now he's looking up at his friends, as if to summon them over..."
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,610
    killerandflash said:
    We need to replace Terry and Greg in the commentary box with Henry Blofeld.

    "There's a lovely pigeon bobbing along the touchline, completely impervious to the action going on around him. Now he's looking up at his friends, as if to summon them over..."
    Oh dear god, don’t give him ideas 😳🫣
    Stop him moaning about the ref I suppose…………….for a bit 😜
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,169
    I think they're filming a sequel to the Hitchcock film, The Birds.

    https://youtu.be/59fsRDsJh48
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,392
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    This chap works for London Falconry and could solve the problem, but he don't work for peanuts.

     
    I Used to do that for a job about 20 years ago and the Valley was one of my contracts , also done quite a few grounds around the country  , a couple of Harris Hawks fly them around the ground for a few hours .
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448

  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    KBslittlesis said:
    I miss the Valley pigeons.
    In fact, I miss pigeons full stop.
    Hardly any here in West Cork 😞
    Stupidly I read that as west Cork, as in west London. Hadn't realised West Cork is a region, not just a town. 
    Are you in Bantry, Castletownbere, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Schull, Skibbereen, Baltimore, Ballydehob, Courtmacsherry, Drimoleague, Durrus, Glengarriff, Leap, Rosscarbery, Timoleague or Union Hall?
    I was in Cork a few years back and really liked the town - and the countryside is lovely.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,392
    Just going through my old photos and found this press clipping of me back in the day .
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  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    fadgadget said:
    Just going through my old photos and found this press clipping of me back in the day .
    I see the valley just as full then as it is now.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,392
    Wheresmeticket? said:
    fadgadget said:
    Just going through my old photos and found this press clipping of me back in the day .
    I see the valley just as full then as it is now.
    Just shows how good a job i was doing .
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,864
    edited March 2023
    fadgadget said:
    Just going through my old photos and found this press clipping of me back in the day .
    "...we have always been interested in birds - of the feathered variety of course". 

    It wasn't really funny at the time (late 90's?) but it certainly dates the article...
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,610
    JamesSeed said:
    KBslittlesis said:
    I miss the Valley pigeons.
    In fact, I miss pigeons full stop.
    Hardly any here in West Cork 😞
    Stupidly I read that as west Cork, as in west London. Hadn't realised West Cork is a region, not just a town. 
    Are you in Bantry, Castletownbere, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Schull, Skibbereen, Baltimore, Ballydehob, Courtmacsherry, Drimoleague, Durrus, Glengarriff, Leap, Rosscarbery, Timoleague or Union Hall?
    I was in Cork a few years back and really liked the town - and the countryside is lovely.
    Sorry, only just seen this. I’m in Baltimore. Which is about 90mins from Cork city centre. It really is beautiful 😍 
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,392
    SporadicAddick said:
    fadgadget said:
    Just going through my old photos and found this press clipping of me back in the day .
    "...we have always been interested in birds - of the feathered variety of course". 

    It wasn't really funny at the time (late 90's?) but it certainly dates the article...
    Yes , prob 98/99
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,860
    It does beg the question of why the pigeons have been present on mass at recent games. Did we have a hawker before, and cut it to save money?

    Other grounds don't seem to have the problem.
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,652
    killerandflash said:
    It does beg the question of why the pigeons have been present on mass at recent games. Did we have a hawker before, and cut it to save money?

    Other grounds don't seem to have the problem.
    I think it’s a new form of protest group.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,483
    Is there any way we can include them in our attendance figures?
  • Blockhead
    Blockhead Posts: 37
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyaHdjcO9h0

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  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    Are there any changes to the pigeons line up today? 

    Could this be included in the Match Preview thread?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,330
    SoundAsa£ said:
    Is there any way we can include them in our attendance figures?
    Your presuming they havent been already?
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,155
    Let’s hope the pigeons improve significantly from last weeks tepid performance.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Will the heavy rain have washed away seeds, but the patter patter have brought worms to the surface?
    Pigeons are mainly vegetarian, Robins eat worms but are more solitary.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    Hopefully the Robins devour the shrews  this afternoon.
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,576
    fadgadget said:
    Just going through my old photos and found this press clipping of me back in the day .
    Which one is you?
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    Next season the club have decided to retire Floyd & Harvey as our matchday mascots, to be replaced by Percy Pigeon


  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    Seen these on Amazon. Maybe an idea for passive protests? 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    That's a bit of a coo.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,860
    No pigeons today!

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