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Index of Subjects --part1_abfb3.291fd9c1.3fd3b402_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In Lincolnshire where I grew up we called them wood pigeons that nested in trees as opposed to the "domestic" pigeons that populated every farmyard. There were a number of folks that ate the wood pigeon offspring before they left the nest "Squabs". I remember them as quite dark meat and tasty. The farmyard pigeons were very tame and I adopted a couple that had fallen out of nests when I was young. They were easily hand fed but the problem was that once they were fledged, they followed me everywhere, even into the one room school house if they got a chance. They did eventually move on as they got older. Being on the coast we also had lost homing pigeons show up from time to time and had to read the numbers on their rings. There was a central number you could call to let the owners know that you had them. Peter Stow Hubbards --part1_abfb3.291fd9c1.3fd3b402_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII" http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 10.00.9200.16736"></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #= 000000"=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Dro= le_document=20 color=3D#000000 size=3D2 face=3DArial> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>In Lincolnshire where I grew up we called them wood pig= eons=20 that nested in trees as opposed to the "domestic" pigeons that populat= ed=20 every farmyard. There were a number of folks that ate the wood pigeon offsp= ring=20 before they left the nest "Squabs". I remember them as quite dark meat and= =20 tasty. The farmyard pigeons were very tame and I adopted a couple that had= =20 fallen out of nests when I was young. They were easily hand fed but the pro= blem=20 was that once they were fledged, they followed me everywhere, even into the= one=20 room school house if they got a chance. They did eventually move on as they= got=20 older. Being on the coast we also had lost homing pigeons show up from time= to=20 time and had to read the numbers on their rings. There was a central number= you=20 could call to let the owners know that you had them. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>Peter Stow</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>Hubbards</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> --part1_abfb3.291fd9c1.3fd3b402_boundary--
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