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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
What?
Is this pigeon doing for goodness sake?!
(Bigger pic than usual so you can see clearly) I took this in the garden yesterday afternoon. The pigeon flew down off our house roof, landed on the path, waddled a few steps and the sorta flopped down on the path and spread itself out! At first I thought it might be injured - it stayed there for about 10 minutes and then got up, had a shake and few away!
This is where I need the highly knowledgable Chris Packham (or "gorgeous Chris Packham" as one Googling person who showed up on my site stats wrote - *laughs out loud*). I have 2 theories - both along the same lines. One is that the pigeon was exhausted (perhaps from chick feeding - we do have a nest of pigeons in the garden) and was taking a bitofa nap. The other is that is was HOT and, basically, trying to cool itself down by fanning its wings out.
Any guesses?
Also (non-pigeon related), I had to share this totally cute pic of April in the sandpit looking very cool and funky :)
Off out to Christchurch after lunch - gotta feed those duckies :)
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