The Digbeth is Good pigeon
Digbeth is Good is now the proud sponsor of a Project Pigeon pigeon in Rea Garden, Floodgate Street. If you would like to join the Project Pigeon Syndicate and own a half share in a Project Pigeon bird for just £20, see the details on We Are Eastside.
Keep away from it Nicky, a pigeon fancier friend is dying of emphysema thought to be connected to Newcastle Disease carried by pigeons.
“Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of serious respiratory infections in children as well as a serious cause of disease in elderly and immunosuppressed populations.”
Journal of Virology, January 2010, p. 1110-1123, Vol. 84, No. 2
“Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) not only infects birds it also infects humans. Although NDV causes a potentially fatal, noncancerous (Newcastle) disease in birds, it causes only minor illness in humans.”
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/viruses/Newcastle_disease_virus.html
I won’t John, I’ll just admire it from afar and let Project PIgeon do the handling! May have a little flutter on it though, now you’ve given me the gambling bug!! :-)