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.

We have resident pigeons in our garden. Patsy and Patrick. Always the same place on the fence. Patrick can be a little... aggressive, with Patsy. 🥰

There’s a couple of wood pigeons that frequent the birdbath - Mr & Mrs Fatpigeon - and they do have gorgeous feathers round their heads, it’s almost iridescent. They are hilarious when they have a bath - a vair dignified descent into the water and then loads of mad splashing.

We have wood pigeons come to our garden. They dominate and so aggressive towards other birds. But they are so clever. One of them pretended to be a robin so he gets fed, after recognising we feed the robin every time he comes to our garden and wait for us at certain place.

Dumb pigeon update: not so dumb after all. There are lots of twigs on the ground and it now looks as though they’re collecting those and taking them to a nest site up a tree. Hooray!

I would like Wood Pigeons more if they didn’t take to congregating on my roof at the moment!

It’s mating season and I’ve been woken up each morning at the arse crack of dawn to the sounds of horny males trying it on with the lady pigeons 😂

They did successfully fight off some Seagulls (the big scary feckers) from their territory about a week ago, that was impressive to watch! Scared the crap out of my cats too

Our local sparrowhawk loves pigeons too. He hides in the hedges, waits for them to land in the grass, and drops down on them from above. Nature is cruel, but fascinating to watch. Only feathers left.

Anyone heard of wood pidgeons being called snarks? DH is from Wiltshire and is convinced this is a normal term for them.

We have regular visitors:

Fat Bob
Bobette
Wobbly Gob Bob (has a wonky beak)
Pigeon John

Assorted sparrows, starlings, blue tits and squirrels.

Can’t be doing with them.

They’re handsome but stupid, crash into things, shove everyone else off the feeders. If they take a bath in the pond they leave a filthy oily slick, and they hoover up bird seed in industrial quantities.

I love all the birds that visit the garden except the gulls (shouty and violent) and the pigeons (clumsy and greedy.)

Bloody love starlings, though. Same family have been coming for 8-10 years (one has a lump on its head so very distinctive)

They are cute to look at, but are greedy feckers and they breed like you wouldn't believe. They are particularly fond of brassicas and a flock can do a lot of damage in an hour or so.

This is why they end up in pies.

Hate the term 'vermin' and hate the term 'weed'. Silly labels that humans place on animals and plants they choose to dislike.

I totally disregarded pigeons until I was sat waiting on a delayed train once at Bristol station. An abandoned tower block opposite was full of them. Proper urban scene with grey concrete, broken windows and graffiti tags everywhere. These were definitely the 'urban vermin' variety not country bumpkin wood pigeons.
I had plenty of time to watch them and realised that their flight is utterly amazing! One of those beauty in unexpected places moments.
They don't just flap around, or fly in a boring straight line like lots of other birds. Their flight is a series of graceful sweeping arcs, propelling themselves up to a high point then swooping down, slowly losing momentum then gently catch themselves and start to go up again. If you get the chance to watch them flying for a while I'd really recommend it. I love seeing them now.

I also came across a flightless pigeon in my back garden once. Looking for advice I came across this Facebook group:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/190932967643243?groupviewwreferrer=profilebrowser

You may have found your people OP!

Wood pigeon is nice in a pie.