Letter: Bridge birds are a blight

Re The Buttermarket and the very diseased and disgusting, miserable-looking pigeons I have seen sitting on the brickwork of the building and under the railway bridge, when I walk past it.

I don't drive, but cycle and bus and walk everywhere. I am nauseated by the pigeon excreta that splatter-paints the pavements under the railway bridge, and also under the river bridge when I cycle or walk home that way too. Although there is netting to try and stop them roosting under the bridges, it isn't working.

I believe that these pigeons should be trapped and stunned, to be killed humanely and made into pet food, and not allowed to breed any more.

I don't want them poisoned. I am a permaculture organic gardener and aware we have enough toxins from excreted medicinal drugs and other factory and house pollutants in our survival earth materials and must not add more.

But also I know an enormous amount about health and I feel that the council and schools should re-educate people and not allow them to feed the pigeons.

I feel sorry for the Effie's kebab shop – having this filth a few yards away.

When I get off the bus for the station stop – which is in fact not the now never-used covered stop outside the station – but further along, I inevitably am deposited in another pigeon-patch.

As they always have done, Buttermarket customers will be walking from the pubs and bars in town through these disgustingly dirty places to get to the Buttermarket.

Imagine how much healthier it would be if there were no pigeons in any train or bus stations in UK.

Newena Martin

Shrewsbury