Once pigeons have had sex....

A different bird but on Saturday we found a chaffinch sitting just outside our kitchen door - we walked very near to it and it didn't 't move. On close inspection we could see that he had some sort of growth on a foot - across all toes. OH went out and picked it up - bird just let him do it - we then decided to put Aloe Vera on the foot - so with a blob on his finger OH started applying it and the chaffinch opened out his toes so he could apply it all round and to the bottom of his foot! We put him in a large shallow box and he flew off and perched on a tree. We think it was the chaffinch that has been hoping around feeding for some weeks.

And they taste delicious!

I have to admit to nursing one with a poorly wing for days, then a week later, spotting the ravages to my purple sprouting broccoli, dispatched DBH to go and shoot as many as possible. He did look a bit at the time! But I explained that it was a bit like taking in a poor stray in from the storm and then have them steal from you. Not that I would normally shoot soggy light-fingered house guests. But the thought would be there.

How nice to see a thread about pigeons that isn`t condemning the poor, and in my mind, beautiful things to a horrid death, hardly anyone seems to like them, but it`s not their fault that they aren`t as healthy and hygienic as they should be, or that they exist at all.

They are the most flirtatious birds! The collar doves run them a close second and I can't help wondering if the pair that arrived on my bedroom window sill (outside) this morning were scouting around for a likely nesting site.

I've seen them just flop down onto the grass, wings spread out from exhaustion, on occasion. I always thought it was the male!

I didn't think they ever actually stopped having sex from what I've seen going on in my garden . They're worse than penguins in that respect [and that's saying something...]

Yes, that's it! I know just how she feels, DBH is back at work today. It's bliss. I'm just sitting here, chilling, meandering occasionally, trying to do nothing without feeling guilty...

Heaven knows jingl!
Perhaps she's just enjoying the sun in peace and quiet before her OH comes back