Loft of gipsy homing pigeons painted in the colours of Spain and Andalusia

Snapped by SG on a lovely clear day last week on a variation of this Barcelona city walk. The birds belong to three tired-looking gents who one would have said were hippophiles pertaining to the kingdom of Dionysus smackheads, and our party did not feel inclined to enquire as to the whys and wherefores.

Birds are often painted for ceremonial or magical purposes. For example,

• 1,500 painted pigeons were released when Perón met Dutra to swap diamonds and chitchat in 1947.
• Red and yellow pigeons helped Victory obliterate Valencia in the final of the 2002 Maldives National Tournament.
• John Huston and Shelley Winters starred in a Ovidio Assonitis flick, which has John Huston as an extra-terrestrial pretending to be a Polish tourist who can’t pronounce his own name and who grows bald men in a box, and which ends with a battle between hawks and doves pigeons painted white. Franco Nero is Jesus Christ, both here and elsewhere.

Why hasn’t Zapatero banned it?

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