THANK goodness journalism is not dead (Star Letter printed in last week's Wiltshire Times).
I wonder if those stray, disorientated birds contain any of the genes of those used by MI6/MI8/The Secret Y Service: the birds bred by Mr Hammond of the then Wyke House taken over by intelligence, so silky, so trusting, so fast.
Pigeons were so important, working without agents, secreted on the continent. Hundreds flew with RAF crews on bombing raids.
In our museum at Blandford next to the Enigma machine is the wounded, bloodied, stuffed VC still with its metal message container strapped to its leg.
Pity the RSPB, RSPCA and pigeon fanciers do not do more to help these lost birds. It is so easy with a few bits of bent wire to catch them up without any cruelty.
What a good country pet they would make in a loft for little Johnny. What a good hobby.
There are some wonderful people close to me who adopt ex battery hens. They even get rewarded with a couple of years' supply of free-range eggs, why not pigeons.
R BREWER,
Mortimer Street,
Trowbridge.
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