27-04-2014, 04:43 PM
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I agree..AC..the first time I saw 'Daft Pigeon''as I call him..he was a fledgling..surrounded by 4 cats..He decided to flap off at the last moment..He regularly ''Crash lands'' into my Holly tree...and sits on my window sill..peering into the kitchen..
Completely thick!!
27-04-2014, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
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Would you consider it acceptable to remove the feeders until MRs S D 's brats had vacated their sacks.
Originally Posted by BowieEyes
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I have a stupid woman next door to me like that. She complained about my Starling who put his nest in the roof space between me and her for 13 years and then had a workman demolish it without my permission and knowledge.
27-04-2014, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by lilac
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He's gonna have to up his game if he is going to survive..I can't rush out and save him all the time!!
Pigeons are actually known to become very tame, not that someone should hijack them from the wild but many people do breed them & they make very tame, affectionate pets.
Btw, I don't have them as pets just in case you're wondering
27-04-2014, 05:31 PM
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You are preaching to the converted Autumn.Color..I adore birds..I have had a pet owl...A jackdaw..I love them all..but I am not always here when ''daft pigeon''makes a crash landing..the cats round here are super hunters during the spring..I hate listening to a baby birds that a cat has caught..and although they are not hungry..are determined to make them suffer...
27-04-2014, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by lilac
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I am sorry..but I give my regular garden inhabitants names..I have a Sid Vicious.(a robin)..Mr and Mrs Tubs..(a pair of blackbirds)...''Daft pigeon..who is a turtle necked dove, and does what it says on the tin..he will stand there until a cat is nearly upon him..and then decide to fly off...Harriet the hawk who sits up in a high tree..waiting to pick off the sparrows..and of course..the ultimate bandits..Magpies!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18049095
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27108910
27-04-2014, 11:09 PM
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I love my garden birds. I get a couple of wood pigeons, blackbirds, sparrows, wrens, magpies, robins, blue tits and coal tits around my feeding tables mostly, plus the wretched squirrels who wreck everything if they can!Around here there are a lot of Red Kites too. They have never come into my garden that I know of, but they are always circling round in the sky just above the rooftops when I go out. They was a big old bird of prey sitting preening in the old willow tree in my neighbours garden last week. I couldn't see him clear enough to identify because of the abundance of new leaves, but I think it may have been a buzzard, not sure though, but he was much bigger than a kestrel.
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