posted to tweeters on **Thur 11Jul02**:

>
> Subject: RE: Racing Pigeons?
> From: "Scott Ray" <scray at wolfenet.com>
> Date: **Wed, 24 Jul 2002**
>
> Tweets
>
> The best thing to do is leave the bird alone. It is probably very tired
> after leaving Weed California this morning which is where many of these
> races originate. The birds can make it back to the Puget Sound area in
about
> 10 hours from Weed. It will probably head on home soon. Racing pigeons
> have a very strong desire to return home and will do so unless captured or
> injured.

24 July??? My-oh-my, this li'l racing pigeon must be in warp drive. It's
only the 11th of July on my calendar. I don't know about Weed ... California
that is ... except that this fella must be or has been on some, but I think
there is a sizable racing pigeon community in central valley around Fresno.
During my many spring seasons on the California central coast (9 of 'em in a
row now) monitoring the annual Alaska bound gray whale cow/calf migration
from the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse (San Luis Obispo County), we get the
occasional wayward Racing Pigeon wandering by and in almost all cases, the
hapless confused creature winds up as a meal for the resident Peregrines.
Over the years we've found several remains on and around the coastal cliff
edge feeding rocks which usually consists of little banded legs and little
else which have been traced back to their origin usually in Fresno.

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Richard Rowlett
Bellevue (Eastgate), WA, USA

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what
nobody has thought" --Albert Szent-Gyorgi (1893-1986).
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