Pigeons

[David Willis]

I have received permission to sent you part of some personal from a Vicar who thought it best to not put his name to it in public !

  " . . . and we had a huge pigeon problem there. The RAF did a wonderful job of putting up louvres for us (they had not had them till then!), and we then cleaned the various floors - nothing about masks and the like in those days - by hoofing all the s**t out whatever hole we could find to save bagging it. Much just disappeared into the wind. We then set about shooting the birds. At 1,000, we stopped counting!

A couple of months ago 2 flew in through the church doors just as I was beginning to say Mass. At the end of the service, one of the congregation said it was a shame the birds were in Church - not only would they leave a massive mess, but they would die a slow death.  'Not with a .22 pellet in them',  thought I.  Actually, it is the most humane way I know of getting rid of them in that situation.

In my last Parish, we had to do likewise with squirrels: they used to come in through a hole in the roof somewhere. On one occasion one decided to run around inside the organ: it cost the insurance a bomb to practically rebuilt it."




                 
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