Why We Enjoy Our Pigeons Hobby..............Graham
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When my family lived in Scotland (where I was born) my brother had a hobby with pigeons, they would fly to his friends house about a mile away with a note and fly back with an answer.
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Sep 11, 2019 13:00:49 #
Graham, Here on the island of Hawaii (the largest of the Hawaii Islands) I often see a large flock of pure white pigeons circling for hours over someone's house at about 30-100 meters above the terrain. Pigeons aren't common here so I'm assuming they belong to a fancier but do you know why they spend so much time flying around and around like that?
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Sep 11, 2019 18:26:52 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
Great images. Is that you in the photographs? Are your pigeons the same as the ones we have flying around wild here in the America midwest?
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Sep 12, 2019 06:42:31 #
CaptainBobBrown wrote:
Graham, Here on the island of Hawaii (the largest of the Hawaii Islands) I often see a large flock of pure white pigeons circling for hours over someone's house at about 30-100 meters above the terrain. Pigeons aren't common here so I'm assuming they belong to a fancier but do you know why they spend so much time flying around and around like that?
CaptainBobBrown, thanks for taking time to view and comment, The answer about the flying white pigeons. My answer would be," The pure pleasure of flying". The guy probably lets them out every day, when he does, the pigeons make a mad dash for the glorious skies. They can fly, for almost any amount of time, usually my ones for about fifteen to twenty minutes. Ideally when they have had their morning exercise, you want them to go straight backs into their loft/housing, instead of landing on house roofs etc etc. I have severe problems with sparrow-hawks. So I put food in troughs in the loft and don't let the pigeons get to it until they have done their flying. They then, hopefully, go straight back into the loft and safety to eat. To see them flying in a flock as you have seen them, is a major pleasure for people like me who has had pigeons for (yonks) do you use that word "yonks" in the US, it means a 'very long time'.
If the pigeons you see, fly regularly overhead from where you are, try taking a few photographs
of them you may be lucky enough to get some interesting shots like this one I got last year.
Thanks again........
Cheers and Beers
Graham
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