TWO pigeon fanciers who fell asleep after parking their trailer with 450 prize birds near the mouth of a Scottish river, woke up to find that 120 of the birds had met a watery grave.
The racing pigeons, worth thousands of pounds, had drowned as the tide came in and lapped over the trailer.
The men, from the Stranraer area, had parked their car and trailer near the mouth of the river Annan, at Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, and had settled down to wait until it was time to release the birds for a race across the Solway Firth to Wigton in Cumbria. But they fell asleep while waiting for the race to start. They woke in the middle of the night to find water lapping around their legs.
The embarrassed pair managed to wade ashore and raise the alarm at a nearby cottage. But by the time help arrived the car was nearly submerged, the trailer partly covered by the tide and 120 pigeons in the lower decks of the trailer had drowned.
A police spokesman said the men, who have not been named, were shocked, but unhurt.
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The N.E.H.U race from Melton Mowbray 21/4/2012 was won by Peel bros of South Shields, they took 1st club 1st fed, also taking 2nd and 4th club and 15 of the 25 birds clocked in the club......well done Peel brothers.
Thats got to be one of the stupidest things i have ever heared of, dont they realise the tide comes in every day, I hope they never take birds off agian. If I was a fancier loosing pigeons this way they would have to hide for a couple of hundred years. 
