Calling All Pigeons Called David
Came across this today. Can’t believe I haven’t heard of it before.
In celebration of St David’s day, and especially if you’re Welsh, pigeons called David get together in Soho Square. Mental. Never seen to many Davids.
See this lot?:
All Davids. Every one of them.
And this lot…:
Mostly Davids with a couple of Daves. To be honest, I never knew there were so many pigeons called David.
Dave from Manchester (middle) said it’s probably a record breaking event and we should try to get into the Guinness Book of Records – the largest single gathering of pigeons called David. Genius.
Thankfully, only a couple of Welsh had bothered to turn up:
That’s David from Cardiff on the left, and David from Swansea on the right.
I asked them how long they were down for. They said they only came for the rugby last weekend, but decided to stay on when they heard about the Calling All Davids get together.
The event got a whole lot funnier when Mart pulled a moody one because I refused to call him David:
Hilarious.
So, I’m on the hunt for a St Brian’s Day. There must be one somewhere… Get hammered with a bunch of pigeons all called Brian. Bring it on.
Pigeon Blog 
Brown replied:
David, if you read this you left your bread crust at mine…I tried to look you up on Facebook but decided that I didn’t have time to message the 3’987’863 David’s that came up in the search results. Anyway it’s going a but green around the edges now so you probably don’t want it back anyway. I’ll put it on eBay and see what happens. Hope that’s ok with you, if not- look me up on Facebook. My name is David.
March 1, 2012 at 6:42 pm. Permalink.
Anastasia the Swan replied:
Brian – why not just declare your own Brian Pigeon day? Then you get to make all the rules about how, when, etc. Celebrate!
March 1, 2012 at 7:15 pm. Permalink.
myu replied:
Hi Brian. I love your blog update. reading yours from Japan, and didn’t know about St David’s day in UK. Can you fly to Japan someday? I hope.
March 2, 2012 at 4:21 am. Permalink.
joehoover replied:
Poor Mart, he knows the odds of ever having a St Mart’s day are very slim
March 2, 2012 at 1:01 pm. Permalink.
There’s something just marvellous about this replied:
[…] Here. […]
March 2, 2012 at 1:56 pm. Permalink.
pigeonblog replied:
Cheers for the link.
Your pal
Brian Pigeon
March 6, 2012 at 9:55 am. Permalink.
Josh replied:
Brilliant, brightened up my day.
March 2, 2012 at 2:03 pm. Permalink.
pigeonblog replied:
Josh: Nice one.
Your pal
Bri
March 6, 2012 at 9:55 am. Permalink.
Ross replied:
did Dave the daredevil from your post on january 25th do anything especially daring to mark the occasion?
March 2, 2012 at 3:37 pm. Permalink.
pigeonblog replied:
Thanks for all your comments. Apologies for the tardy response, just been nursing a bit of a heavy head all day. Got caught up with the Davids and did it large till the early hours. Ouch.
@Brown: David – nice one. FYI I am the original bona fide Brian Pigeon on Facebook.
Your pal
Bri
@Anastasia: Great idea. Brian’s Day. Bring it on!
Your pal
Bri
@myu: Love to! Send me some pics of your pigeon pals over there. Love to see some.
Your pal
Brian
@JoeHoover: Thankfully, yes.
Your pal
Bri
@Josh: Cheers, pal!
Your pal
Bri P
@Ross: Good point! I’ll have to hunt him down and find out. He was definitely a no show on the Square…
Your pal
Bri P
p.s. anyone bump into any other pigeons called David, take and pic and sent it on!
March 2, 2012 at 8:50 pm. Permalink.
pigeonblog replied:
@There’s just something marvelous about this: Cheers for the link, pal.
Your pal,
Brian Pigeon.
March 2, 2012 at 10:09 pm. Permalink.
ecky ecky ptang replied:
Actually, most Swansea pigeons are called Jack.
March 3, 2012 at 8:17 am. Permalink.
pigeonblog replied:
ecky ecky ptang: Why?
Your pal
Bri
March 6, 2012 at 9:57 am. Permalink.
Span Ows replied:
ecky, that’s why David flew the Swansea coop, well that and the fact that they kept calling him Die which was quite upsetting.
March 3, 2012 at 9:02 am. Permalink.
pigeonblog replied:
Span Ows: Die – now there’s a name. Is that short for David?? No wonder!
Your pal
Bri
March 6, 2012 at 9:57 am. Permalink.
Dave Williams of Hyde, Cheshire replied:
St Brian’s day is apparently December 10th, or at least this says so.
March 3, 2012 at 11:37 am. Permalink.
Dave Williams of Hyde, Cheshire replied:
Sorry, that doesn’t seem to have worked, try this instead.
March 3, 2012 at 11:43 am. Permalink.
pigeonblog replied:
Dave: Nice one. Well found. Dec 10th it is, although it doesn’t seem to be that popular as an idea. Maybe I can sponsor it? Make it go global? Waddya say?
Your pal
Bri P
March 6, 2012 at 10:00 am. Permalink.