Electric bike pigeon rescue ambulance: What a week

[morphix]

Last Tuesday evening I had to do an emergency pigeon rescue from the roadside. I was riding along a buses-only lane heading home after my daily post drop at the Sorting office when I saw this injured wood pigeon in the middle of the road with bloodied wings and clearly unable to fly. Looked like it had flown into a bus, poor thing was helpless.

I managed to capture it and put it in my empty rucksack and made the rest of the journey home on throttle-only, avoiding the bumps!

A trip to the vet and six days on, and the patient is on the road to recovery and currently living in my living-room! He was initially in an enclosure in the loft has been well enough to start using his wings a bit over the weekend and is now happy perching!

Here's a little video I made of him cleaning up some water he knocked over..

[video=youtube;K_gN5w8ZarE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_gN5w8ZarE[/video]

Hope everyone is well and enjoying riding. The more time goes by the more I realise how useful my bike is becoming and what a joy it is to own one!

Paul

 

[banbury frank]

Hi

And thanks for looking after one off Gods creatures without your intervention he would off suffered a long painful death. well done

Frank

 

[funkylyn]

What a lovely story and video, hope he makes a full recovery.....he's certainly looking good.....well done you are obviously a really nice person ....

( I once stopped my milk van to rescue a large hairy caterpillar in northumberland.....my eyesight must have been better then ! )

Lynda

 

[Marchant]

Pigeons are nice. Well done Paul, you are evidently a Top Man.

 

[eddieo]

Hi

And thanks for looking after one off Gods creatures without your intervention he would off suffered a long painful death. well done

Frank

Indeed...But! If he suffers a reversal of fortune and deteriorates...I can send you a nice recipe for pigeon pie?

 

[flecc]

Well done Paul, I'm sure it will recover completely, I've rescued injured ones twice some while ago and both recovered completely. These days it's more likely to be small birds hitting my windows that are my patients, like this chaffinch, click to enlarge:

 

[jerrysimon]

Nice story, though I am not a great fan of pigeons given how many I have cluttering up my back garden.

We are lucky though, as we have a free local pest control facility for them. If you tire of yours feel free to bring it along and I will put it in my back garden for re-cyling.

This was shot outside my patio window


[video=youtube;4SOCHxIb2mU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SOCHxIb2mU[/video]

Regards

Jerry

 

[PennyFarthing]

( I once stopped my milk van to rescue a large hairy caterpillar in northumberland.....my eyesight must have been better then ! )

Lynda

Woah, woah, whoah and stop right there! Rewind and tell me all about the milk van!

Intrigued, Penny

 

[PennyFarthing]

Last Tuesday evening I had to do an emergency pigeon rescue from the roadside. I was riding along a buses-only lane heading home after my daily post drop at the Sorting office when I saw this injured wood pigeon in the middle of the road with bloodied wings and clearly unable to fly. Looked like it had flown into a bus, poor thing was helpless.

I managed to capture it and put it in my empty rucksack and made the rest of the journey home on throttle-only, avoiding the bumps!

A trip to the vet and six days on, and the patient is on the road to recovery and currently living in my living-room! He was initially in an enclosure in the loft has been well enough to start using his wings a bit over the weekend and is now happy perching!

Here's a little video I made of him cleaning up some water he knocked over..

[video=youtube;K_gN5w8ZarE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_gN5w8ZarE[/video]

Hope everyone is well and enjoying riding. The more time goes by the more I realise how useful my bike is becoming and what a joy it is to own one!

Paul

Awwww, Morphix - how lovely! I couldn't bear to think of it waiting there helpless, waiting to be fully run over.

Hope it makes a full recovery.

Penny

 

[funkylyn]

Woah, woah, whoah and stop right there! Rewind and tell me all about the milk van!

Intrigued, Penny

well....just going about my milk round business near Lowick saw this caterpillar in the middle of the road ( van was a VW so I was near the windscreen ) braked, picked it up to place in hedgerow...but the incredulous look on the lorry drivers face, who also had to stop because of me, when he saw what I had slammed the brakes on for....well, it will live with me forever LOL

Lynda

 

[funkylyn]

Nice story, though I am not a great fan of pigeons given how many I have cluttering up my back garden.

We are lucky though, as we have a free local pest control facility for them. If you tire of yours feel free to bring it along and I will put it in my back garden for re-cyling.

This was shot outside my patio window


[video=youtube;4SOCHxIb2mU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SOCHxIb2mU[/video]

Regards

Jerry

Oh Jerry...you are so bad.....and this being such a nicey nicey thread

Lynda

 

[jerrysimon]

lol Lynda like most I can be both good and bad

The sparrow hawk attack was facinating though I had my wife and two daughters next to me whilst I filmed it, horrified at what was being done to the little pigeon.

Nature is indeed a wonderfull thing both in terms of its beauty and the more uglier side of survival of the fittest. We are indeed fortunate to have a garden where we can see these roles played out daily.

Regards

Jerry