 |  | | | Pigeons on the Scilly Isles | 4 Aug 2006 | | |
One of the less reported consequences of the bird flu scare was a ban on flying racing pigeons internationally. But in June the Government agreed that birds could be taken up to 400 miles into France and then released to race back to their homes in the UK and Ireland.
Even though the pigeons have a strong homing instinct, they can get lost in bad weather when they'll descend on the first bit of land they see. That bit of land often tends to be St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly, 28 miles off the west coast of Cornwall. There the artist Patsy Swanborough looks after the pigeons and nurses them back to health. Fiona Clampin went to meet her.
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