Just seen a Pigeon do a loop the loop!!!!

[Streetrod]

Sitting in my home office staring out the window I see three pigeons making low level high speed passes across the garden. Anyway they come around for another pass with the lead bird weaving and the other two running in very close formation behind, then suddenly the lead bird goes ballistic, then upside down and drops back in behind the third bird, I was almost expecting him to get weapons look. It was amazing to see.

Is this normal Pigeon behaviour or is there some kind of Pigeon Top Gun School that I am unaware of?

[GTIR]

Coo story bro.

[Buff Mchugelarge]

GTIR said:

Coo story bro.

[Vieste]

He/she must be one of the rare breeds from Top Gun School.

[Streetrod]

Buff Mchugelarge said:

GTIR said:

Coo story bro.

Have another

[Pixel Pusher]

You sure it wasn't the Red Sparrows?

[davepoth]

Streetrod said:

Buff Mchugelarge said:

GTIR said:

Coo story bro.

Have another

And one from me.

[Streetrod]

Pixel Pusher said:

You sure it wasn't the Red Sparrows?

Nah! Sparrow's are crap at holding a formation

[stevejh]

I think it's something they do to avoid being caught by a swooping bird of prey. I'm sure I've seen some video of this behaviour on TV, probably on Springwatch or something else involving Kate Humble.

[y2blade]

Pixel Pusher said:

You sure it wasn't the Red Sparrows?

I nearly fell off my chair at that ^^^^

[DAVEVO9]

Vieste said:

He/she must be one of the rare breeds from Top Gun School.

They do exist..

[Marf]

GTIR said:

Coo story bro.

[Cock Womble 7]

There are shallow rollers, and there are deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers or their young, their offspring, will roll all the way down, hit and die.

Agent Starling is a deep roller, Barney.

Let us hope one of her parents was not.

[GTIR]

DAVEVO9 said:

Vieste said:

He/she must be one of the rare breeds from Top Gun School.

They do exist..

Wait a minute!

It shows a RAF roundel but "color" is the US spelling.

SPY!

[Jamie VTS]

Pixel Pusher said:

You sure it wasn't the Red Sparrows?

Got some strange looks in the office after laughing at that..

[sunbeam alpine]

Cock Womble 7 said:

There are shallow rollers, and there are deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers or their young, their offspring, will roll all the way down, hit and die.

Agent Starling is a deep roller, Barney.

Let us hope one of her parents was not.

The fact that you often post the same thing I'm thinking on quite a lot of threads worries me.

A lot.

[SystemParanoia]

anonymous said:

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[z4me]

Could've been a squadron of these ? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbler_(pigeon)

[Ikemi]

To be fair, if I was a pigeon, I'd do the same ...

[iphonedyou]

Worst 'I've a home office' thread evAR!!!!!