Red Felégyhaza Tumbler, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd

Show racer, chequer pattern blue modified with recessive opal, an autosomal modifier linked to the pattern series of alleles. #pigeonsky

Chinese Nasal Tufts in flight. #pigeonsky

Improvised loft/cote in Hurghada, Egypt. #pigeonsky

Thirsty bird #pigeonsky

This is a dovecote over in Kings Cliffe, 17th century I think. The owner had the cupola refurbished. The Red Kite weather vane was added because that was where the original reintroduction took place. He didn't use it as a dovecote, just a very fancy garden shed.

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Sooty blue bar with white flights #pigeonsky

Pigeon toed. #pigeonsky

White Marchenero in flight, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky

Video of the British Pigeon Show Society show in Murton, Yorkshire here: youtu.be/pMoOVk4JOto?... #pigeonsky

What was already known has now been scientifically proven: pigeons play no role in the spread of bird flu. #pigeonsky www.bmleh.de/SharedDocs/M...

Valencian Figurita, black, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd.

Red and Yellow Frillbacks, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky

If anyone is interested, the British Pigeon Show Society are holding their annual show this weekend in York, at the Auction centre in Murton N Yorkshire, YO19 5GF. This is one of the UK's largest fancy pigeon shows and there will be numerous varieties exhibited there. I will be judging for the...

Buchon Jiennense, Spanish pouter pigeon, charcoal, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky

Message written on the ground at a railway station somewhere in Germany #pigeonsky

Dragoon, silver, head profile, soft pastels. Dragoon, blue cheq, soft pastels. Dragoon, blue bar graphite on paper, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky

Stettiner tumbler pigeons, blue bar and blue grizzle, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd #pigeonsky

Festival of St Swithin, William Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelite artist. #pigeonsky

Pigeons at the George Inn, Huntingdon. #pigeonsky

Lanner Falcon, soft pastels, Graeme Boyd

Andalusian Blue American Show Racer. Soft pastels, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky

The place where pigeons don't dare go... #pigeonsky

Examples of the three basic colours in Columba Livia modified with dilute. Ash red becomes Ash yellow (Chinese Owl), Blue becomes silver (Danish tumbler) and brown becomes khaki (African Owl).

Nice example of Ash red split blue. This happens when a male has a different basic colour on each of his Z chromosomes. He has the dominant colour mutation Ash red on one chromosome and wild type blue on the other. His pattern is chequer. #pigeonsky

Heap, big, many, many, Peacock butterfly caterpillars on a nettle among my wildflower.

Asterix the Gaul by Goscinny & Uderzo, I loved these books. Getafix, the Druid, kept pigeons in a dovecote. #pigeonsky

American show racer, blue bar, soft pastel drawing, Graeme Boyd. #pigeonsky