Out on my bike yesterday, I was extending one of the routes I follow – exploring, if you will – and placed right in the path was this pigeon basket. Used to transport racing pigeons to their release point, I can’t think how it got there, as the location would not be conducive to releasing pigeons, being next to a major motorway. It didn’t look broken at all, so it’s unlikely to have fallen off the back of a lorry – although, of course, it might have ‘fallen off the back of a lorry’ (been stolen). I suppose I could have carried it home on my bike but as I had no use for it – I prefer my pigeons in a pie – I left it for somebody else. It will be interesting to see if it’s still around when I next venture out that way.
—-Stephen—
Stephen G Hipperson 
Ah, sweet mysteries of life …
For those with a creative writing gift, a starter for 10, so to speak!
A strange enigma – but a good subject for a photograph!
🙂 – give me an enigma to photograph and I’m a happy person (providing I have my camera with me!)
Perhaps it’s an unusual form of lobster pot. Can lobsters fly? Homing lobsters?
🙂 – I think they would have to fly as the basket was around 60 miles from the coast!
See, this is not something I’m likely to stumble upon in my neighborhood. Thanks for sharing your slice of the world! 🙂
🙂 – well, I have to admit it wasn’t something what was on my radar to see!
Pigeon racing is something that is supposedly quite popular in northern England, but I don’t know anyone who does it. Having said that, I have seen lorries which have been converted to carry 100s of baskets to release points.
Didn’t you look inside? Who knows what was in there.
I did, of course. I did! (Leave no stone unturned!)
The birds had flown, the basket was bare, except for a layer of bedding – some sort of grain husk by the look of it.
Excellent as a shabby-chic decorative item…
🙂 – now there speaks an interior decorator – not something I have much experience/practice in (a department for the missus!)