HOMELESSNESS BECKONS FOR UNLOVED PIGEONS OF CLEETHORPES AND GRIMSBY

Cleethorpes Town Hall

                                                                                                                                          

Pest control firm Rentokil has released photographs of the netting schemes  that will soon be used  to prevent pigeons from roosting or nesting at the town halls in Cleethorpes and Grimsby. The firm says the birds carry parasites which pose a threat to human health though no evidence has ever - throughout the long history of both buildings - been presented of a town hall worker  having become ill as a result of the presence of birds. Unfortunately for pigeons, no one seems to like them - especially since former London mayor Ken Livingstone once described them as "flying rats". If they had been swifts, swallows or house martins, maybe they would have been given the benefit of the doubt. The pigeons  will now have to find alternative locations to roost and raise their families - perhaps, in Cleethorpes, under the pier, and, in Grimsby, under the flyover.

Grimsby Town Hall

                                                                      

Alas, no place on council property for this lonely pigeon