DISAPPEARING RACING PIGEONS

Bird owners in Britain are devastated after a mind-boggling 5,000 homing pigeons seemingly disappeared during a race across the UK. Pigeon hobbyist Richard Sayers wrote in a Facebook post about the mystery, which occurred a week ago Saturday (June 19) after 9,000 racing birds took off from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire on a 170-mile round-trip flight that should’ve only taken three hours. Over half the pigeons are still unaccounted for. On a larger scale, 250,000 pigeons were released in approximately 50 racing events across the country — with just 10% returning on time and tens of thousands reported missing. It’s possible a meteorological event, such as a solar storm, may have distorted Earth’s magnetic field, which the pigeons use to navigate, although weather conditions across the country were good. Mr. Sayers is imploring “anyone who comes across a racing pigeon to feed, water and let it rest,” and maybe the birds will get on their way after a few days.
* This is cuckoo. Coo…coo.
* I’m no pigeon expert, but I’d start my search at EVERY STATUE IN THE COUNTRY.
* Maybe they’re all off watching the Peacock network?
* More likely: They all finally decided “this is the stupidest thing ever,” and chucked the whole “let’s race across England” thing.
* Can’t they just follow the trail of, y’ know, 250,000 homing pigeons’ crap?