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Reasons to be cheerful 2022

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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    How about polishing your wings with The Pink Stuff, give em a good fettle?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Fairygirl said:
    @Dovefromabove - think it was more luck than judgement with him. He's not the most 'mobile' - to  put it kindly  ;)

    Flying properly would be handy. Any tips?  :D
    …
    Possibly he’s a relative … it’s something I struggle with too 🕊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Not to be disrespectful @Dovefromabove but if perching is a basic skill why did the pair of pigeons back in my garden take so long to settle in the pine tree?  As they were trying (and failing) they fell from branch to branch down most of the height of the tree.

    Don't want to appear heartless but it was very good entertainment.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They're hopeless b*ggers in a conifer too @herbaceous . Why they like them for nesting in,  is a mystery to me  :D
    Not sure about that @Uff. Bit messy....

    @Dovefromabove - I bet you could make a better job of landing than Dave though  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I'm not surprised they have problems in pine or any conifers. The branches don't make any sense to me as a human let alone to a bird brain. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    But they insist on trying to land on the ends of branches @Uff with predictable (and fairly consistent outcomes), remind me, what is that snappy definition of insanity?

    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Einstein I think herbaceous, if you mean the one about expecting different results.  
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    That's the one @Uff, on reflection Einstein's Parable of Quantum Insanity might be a bit much for your average pigeon.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I think the term 'bird brained' was invented for pigeons.  They seem thick even by bird standards.  Falling off branches seems to be the only achievement they have mastered.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    edited January 2022
    I still get a pigeon returning to my garden and staring at the tree where I used to have a bird feeder more than a year ago!  Is that showing some semblance of memory or is it just an inability to realise that the bird feeder has gone and it's not coming back?! (I suspect the latter!)
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


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