New neighbours. Messy, Noisy and PDA.

[ChamomileLawn]

They are moving in and taking their sweet time over it. Scattering bits all over the lawn. Niggling and bickering. He wants this bit in, she throws it out. Then they make up with total over the top public affection cooing and snogging loudly.

We have Pin, short for Pinhead, who clears up the seeds that the little birds knock onto the ground. He is a complete shagger with multiple birds on the go. He will just move from one to another in front of their eyes.

They really do build the most rubbish nests. I see them flying into a tree with twigs far too large for the gap. Meanwhile the small birds (blue tits, sparrows, woodpeckers) are bankrupting us with their constant demands for food.

We had a budgie that loved himself…literally. He had a mirror in his cage, he’d sidle along the perch up to the mirror, gaze at his reflection,, then sort of nudge the mirror with his head. Every spring he’d get really amorous, he’d grasp the mirror with his feet and legs, and, using his tail as balance shag the mirror. Really proper, going for it shagging. The little bell on the mirror would be clanging away. DH used to say “ He’s at the vinegar strokes”.
After this outstanding performance he’d sit on his perch absolutely exhausted. All he needed was post shag fag to complete the act.
He’s buried in our garden with his mirror. RIP Archie, we miss you.

A rather sad update.
After a day of non stop pigeon sex outside our bedroom window yesterday, this afternoon my DH found a dead pigeon lying in flower bed.
The "petit mort" became the "grand mort"

😯

Try living next door to a gazillion parakeets.
Yeah yeah you might be pretty but "shut the f up"

@Thinkingblonde my mother in law's bird has a very special relationship with an old plastic lid. He really loves that lid. But right in front of me....no I don't want to watch thank you very much.

I had to break up a fight in my front garden yesterday. Mrs P obviously brought her fancy piece home and poor downtrodden Mr P was literally trodden on by Boyfriend P.

I let the fight go on for a minute in case Mr P wanted to fight back but the poor wee soul just stood there and took it 😞

Its like Shamless here.

We have the pigeon equivalent of a tower block (rowan tree) of the fuckers here. They fight and bonk all over the garden. However the worst offenders are the jackdaws. They are like a group of rowdy youths terrorising the neighbourhood.

There was a massive fight between the rooks and the magpies the other day. They were attacking each other in the air. It was like the Battle of Britain.