
This morning’s encounters included a cat, a dog, several birds and a professional football player who also owns pigeons.These pigeons here. I love the one standing at the back ready to catch any delinquents. He told me (the football player not the pigeon in charge) that they are making a lot of babies these days and are always on top of each other and he really can’t get their attention like before. While he was talking, his eyes sparkled with a mix of disapproval and envy. Mine with probably more of the latter. Who can blame them. Not even their stern supervisor there at the back.
My walk has a very well established routine. I get a coffee, I feed a very clever cat I befriended recently, say hi to a dog who lives behind a green gate, I stare in the distance a bit, then check that I haven’t lost my keys (I don’t know why, but that would represent the final straw:) Ok, I’ve lost my keys. That’s it. Descend into the abyss.
Anyway, today’s novelty was that I stopped to look at the pigeons who were doing extremely disciplined and acrobatic runs in the sun aiming at this lady’s ecstatic neck. I was lost in contemplation when the football player appeared from under the pigeons’ terrace and explained their current spell of sauciness.
This has opened up a vast new line of inquiry. So captivity breeds desire but then it also very cunningly does the opposite. Right? Which wins? How?
love this, love the humour and yes, those pigeons can be randy; i had a most distressing time with two of them when my grandkids stayed over for a few days; perhaps I will post it
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π go for it. It’s important we advertise their liberal ways worldwide.
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Young children see, and understand far more than we sometimes give them credit for …
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π sadly that can be the case. Hopefully not many of them have been enlightened too soon by those saucy pigeons…
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Nature sure can be naughty at times.
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Naturally naughty π
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“Which wins? How?” That’s where the fun lies, no?
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If u can call i that, yeah:)
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