West country cops ponder appearance of 40 dead pigeons on A35

Don't forget...

the Carpathian Lynx that roamed the Devon countryside for three weeks after escaping Dartmoor zoo; I guess like my cats (6) he hated most cat-food brands and preferred fresh meat.

I love Devon

Pretty much all of the south west from Bristol onwards has weird stuff happening every day and people just go about their lives.

The Police suspect 'Fowl Play'.

Ta Dah

It's pokemon go players ditching the stupid Pidgeys they keep catching...

Witchycoo

I lived in North Devon for a couple of years, in those days it had one of the largest and oldest covens in the country, so maybe this is someone casting some kind of spell.

Otherwise Damien Hirst lives in Ilfracombe, it could be one of his art pieces.

Pigeon flash mobs

There seems to be a time of year, or perhaps a type of weather, that prompts pigeons to stand around in the road, sometimes in crowds. They seem reluctant to move, and if you're driving at any speed you're highly likely to hit one or two. This year I noticed it about three weeks ago.

meanwhile...

the discovery of a 25ft 'Wicker Man' on a nearby hill, is purely coincidental.

Oi've got a brand new pigeon harvester

My first thought was that the birds were trapped/roosting in some farm machinery, unknown to the driver, who then took it out on the road. After a while the driver hears some funny noises, pulls over, checks the contents of the hopper (feathers, feed, and perhaps some distressed survivors who fly away), and dumps the remains before trundling away from the scene.

AFAIK, churning things around, and dropping them down at regular intervals is well within the purview of farm machinery.

In the world of printing...

you can examine the linear spacing of a recurrent defect (in the direction of paper travel) to determine the diameter of the defective component (usually there's a table). Presumably at a spacing of exactly 100 yards, they would be looking for a wheel of diameter ~1100 inches. That's a big truck.

Looks like there is no longer an absence of a certain ornithological piece: a headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety.

Art Project

Funded art project to highlight the blight of wildlife

to afflict Albion?

Dead of course

Live ones don't stay put when you dump them.

"Conspiracy theorists might suggest that the lion spotting might have something to do with the pigeon mystery. However, the apparent use of the feedbag to transport the pigeons coupled with the lions presumed lack of opposable thumbs work against this theory."

Yeah, that and the fact that St Austell and Honiton are close to 100 miles apart.

That said, I don't know how far a typical lion roams, so perhaps the lack of opposable thumbs is the best evidence against that theory.

Maybe someone is trying to make the point that the wind turbines kill a lot of birds.

Grocks on Scrumpy

It wuz bloody grocks on scrumpy wut did it, they make nut'n but trouble 'ey do.

PPP

It's not against any religion, to want to dispose of the pigeon...

Sport

It doesn't say what type of Pigeons.

I don't kill for pleasure but there are plenty that do.

I'm only interested in receiving the bounty of other peoples sport for the table.

Wood Pigeon is one of the most delicious meats that you can eat but you only take the breast off and throw the rest away.

We once got given 150 birds that had been shot on a farm in Southport.

It took us all night to breast them and in the end we were knee deep in feathers and viscera, in the dark and wearing head torches.

We disposed of the carcasses responsibly but I'm guessing that somebody in Devon might have taken an easier route.

Was Aleister Dabbs in the area at the time? I heard rumours that he was working on a new ritual against problems with Adobe's CreativeCloud.

Evolution

What we're witnessing is the emergence of the first carrier pigeon internet.

The A35 is the first ever bird2bird decentralised wingternet.

Or maybe its just a landing strip for the survivors of a particularly long flight.