Neighbour objects to our eating pigeon pie

My Dad used to shoot wood pigeons at the weekend and we would eat them. Mostly the breast, but other parts can be eaten. Not had any for years. The meat has a deep flavour, not to everyone's taste.

Your neighbour needs to mind their own business and read up on the Wildlife and Countryside Acts.

I’ve eaten Pigeon years ago , stewed and fried ( or was it baked?) . I’ve eaten pigeon eggs too.
The pigeons round my way are so fat that the fences rattle when they land on them. They regularly get tagged by passing cars and lorries so the crows are fat too.
I should by a 22 air rifle just to tuck away in case of a catastrophe. I could shoot and eat them.

Well a pidgeon called walter was used to great effect in a movie by Roosevelt as propaganda to commit the US people to WW2 it was called Mrs Miniver.

Well you could shout out a warning and if anyone objected that they couldn’t understand you could say you used pidgin English 

I think you need a general licence to shoot pigeons and there is the problem of ringed birds which are usually actual property. I do not think eating them after legal shooting is a problem. It may be your neighbour made an assumption too far they are not protected as such but it is illegal to kill any wild birds without that general licence.

You should have used an opaque bag, too many people like the birds, I blame Mary Poppins 

Now not sure on the official line on eating wild pigeons I guess some might state there is a health risk although if cooked well and all the organs are removed that should not be a problem. 

Many years ago i was driving along and had to swerve to avoid a pigeon in the road, it didnt try to dodge, i stopped, caught the pigeon with some difficulty. This was about 1-30, i spent the afternoon in an office, getting out about 5, the pigeon was in the back of the car, i had phoned a vet and was going there.

The back seat was covered in pigeon shit.

The vet examined it, and said that there was nothing wrong, its crop was full, it was just stuffed, he threw it into the air.

It flew off.

I feed the birds daily, no miss, many ring necked doves come, pigeons . There is a lot of road kill of all sorts, pigeons are common, when they sense danger, the approach of a car, there is a delay, many are hit. Whats the point of this?, i am no being critical, we are who we are, but the death of any living thing is abhorrent to me, pigeons, humans, its all the same to me. The death of a pigeon might as well be the death of a human. I give worms on paths lifts to grass. I rescue drowning insects.

One day, you will need a helping hand. There is the hitchikeres guide to the galaxy, is uses the analogy of aliens, being so advanced it doesnt notice the death of the earth as it constructs an alien highway. Much like toady, the M1 M6 etc ushered in a wild life apocalypse.

Yet i eat meat, my father was a butcher, and all that entails. There is no winning.

I should say that i am religious, and there is the good samaritan thing, would i pass you by john, in the event of you needing help, no. Would a Mallard pass by that farmer in need of help?. If he has shot in him, probably. Any help afforded though would only be a quack or two.

The analogy is correct though. Show mercy and you will recieve it. If i ever need help, im sure there will be a queue, indeed, i had a bad illness, that now has dissapeared, coincidence? who knows. When passing, good people suffer less, if at all.