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At the end of May, in terrible weather, we found a “lost and stray” homing pigeon on the yard, very much the worse for wear. We read the number on his leg ring and traced the owner, via the Internet through the North of England Homing Union, to an address in Sunderland; he asked that we hang on to him until the weather improved … Our visitor had been released over the May Bank Holiday weekend from Lille in northern France. Well the weather took its time … but on June 6th we noticed that he wasn’t pecking around any more and that evening we got a phone call to say he had returned to his loft “absolutely shattered” but safe and sound.