To think pigeons are treated unfairly?

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I've just seen one close up in my back passage and they're actually rather beautiful and elegant.

😂

I really don't know what to say to that!

Is this the first time you've seen a pigeon?

Evidently Pigeon Town

I like them. DH tells me they are vermin but as I have pet rats I am evidently a vermin fan. I like squirrels too

Up your back passage?

But yes, I do love pigeons.

You need urgent medical care if you have a pigeon up your back passage....

Which kind? The scrawny, flea infested urban rats of the sky or nice plump wood pigeons? We have the latter , but where we used to live the former there's a definite difference, neither is comparable to the evil seagulls we have now though.
In a separate note if you've got pigeons up in your back passage you might want that looked at. I hear GPs are doing video consultations

I love it when pigeons come in my back passage too OP!

I mean the alley way behind the house.

Do you mean wood pigeons or rock doves?

Wood pigeons are the big fat ones with the white collars you see in the countryside, rock doves are the ones which congregate en masse in cities. Their natural habitat is cliffs, hence why they (like peregrines) do so well in areas with lots of buildings.

I love Rock Doves, to give them their proper name. Not sure I'd want one up my back passage though.

They are disgusting. Especially when people feed/encourage them when you are in a cafe or eating outside abroad. Makes me feel sick when they are walking all over the tables

I don't know what kind of pigeon. I didn't know there are different sorts. It was grey and yes quite fat tbh.

We have a garden full of woodies (and at the moment, their appallingly made nests!). I adore them. Nothing as soothing as a woodie's call.

It was a wood pigeon. I've just looked up the RSPB.

My cat likes pigeons 🙈

Best post of the week!

Love them all.

We have a very chilled one that comes in our garden. Oft to be found having Mexican standoffs with the dog over food. Pidge wins.

Wood pigeons are lovely. There was a young one which followed my mum around the garden when I was small. Very sociable thing.

Rock doves are also lovely, although sadly not generally well thought of. Their success and global range is directly attributable to humans, and yet we sit there and complain about them.

Ooohhhhh eeerrr back passage

YANBU at all. I have lots of birds that come to our feeding stations and the Pigeons are lovely.

They are disgusting. Especially when people feed/encourage them when you are in a cafe or eating outside abroad. Makes me feel sick when they are walking all over the tables

so dramatic

I love pigeons! We get loads in our garden. I call them all Keith

@Dita73 our name for all wood pigeons is Fat Brian. Not really sure how that came about. All squirrels are Steves too.

Keith! Loving Fat Brian too.