Missing homing pigeon Bob found 4,000 miles away in Alabama

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The bird was racing home to Gateshead but was found by a puzzled resident at his home in Alabama.

Bob the pigeon is being cared for at an animal shelter in Alabama

Bob set off from Guernsey in the Channel Islands three weeks ago on the 400-mile route to Gateshead, which was supposed to take 10 hours. Mr Todd, from Winlaton, who has been reunited with Bob via webcam, is planning to travel over to bring him back."He was covered in oil - it could have been an oil tanker.

They said they had been contacted by an elderly resident who had found the bird at his home in Mexia on Wednesday.

 

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The government has released ufo footage and the world's in a crisis but today someone lost their bird 😑

Cue the 'global warming' theorists as to the reason for this birds misdirection.

Did Dick Dasterly catch him?

Sweet homing pigeon Alabama.

Possibly the worst homing pigeon of all.

on s'en fout complètement

Singing... Sweet Home Alabama!

_HerrDavid_ xxxx

Says alot for Gateshead

Hope Bob was not looking for Democracy. He is F…ed.

Sweet homing Alabama!

Maybe he wasn’t missing, maybe he’d decided to leave home! 😄

He's a far-from-homing pigeon.

What about speckled Jim?

Grand coalition

Loving the name!

Wrong Birmingham Bob!

Don’t tell his owner.🙀 A racing pigeon that just flies of is no use to him/ her.

Speckled Jim never screwed up like this, Bob.

Sweet Home-ing Pigeon Alabama.

Alabama is awesome.. Welcome Bob !!!

maybe his home was alabama all along lol

Obviously fed up with the cost of living in this shit out of a country

Bob is a shite homing pigeon!

Sounds like he sucks at his job ngl

More Like A Roaming Pigeon

Rita and Sue miss him.

He must’ve been heading south

Keep growing👍

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