Homing pigeon racing in the United States dates back to the 1800s

Ledger correspondent After Thanksgiving, Derek Duke and I were scouting Walk-in-the-Water WMA near Frostproof for an upcoming deer hunt. About 3 miles into the hike, we discovered a dead pigeon in the sugar sand trail.

Now, this was in Deep Woods — not where one would expect to encounter a feral pigeon, deceased or otherwise. And as anyone who has traipsed through that labyrinth of scrub oaks would tell you, the particular odds of this bird croaking in an open space for people to find were spectacularly low.

As such, we approached cautiously. Perhaps this was a trail camera set-up to […]

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