While writing this in the last week of August, we in the south-east are still ‘enjoying’ unprecedented levels of sunshine, with daytime temperatures rarely dipping below 25°C. Here in Essex, we have had no rain for six weeks, and the effect it has had on the local pigeon population has been remarkable.
Last month, I described how Paul and I managed to scrape together a 100-bird bag from a situation that promised much more, purely because the majority of pigeons I had watched the day before simply failed
