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Did you know that Rock Doves were bred like chickens are today for their their meat and eggs. Like chickens, they were bred to encourage regular menstration (eggs are birds' periods). When chickens replaced pigeons, the farmed pigeons were relealed en masse into the wild. Naturally breeding on cliffs, pigeons saw cities as cliffs, which is why they gather there to this day. Bred close to humans for so long in the past, they are still semi tame to this day. Here are a few Swansea pigeons hanging out outside Tesco Marina.

Beautiful Pigeons

Pigeons are beautiful. The risk of getting a disease from a pigeon is no higher than from other birds or pet, and the many diseases linked to them, are more common in domestic pets and farm animals. Here are two of the beauties, who mate for life and are another species cruelly treated by humans. https://www.littlegreenpigeon.co.uk/

And if you don"t believe pigeons are one of Britain's prettiest birds, you are wrong!

Here are two of the beauties, who mate for life, living their best lives along the River Tawe:

Pigeon Love

The highlight of this year's Swansea Vegan Festival had to be the talj given by this ladly, who definiteky attracted the largest crowd od the day with her talk of the vicioysly maligned and horrifically treated feral pigeon. Pets and fatm animals spread more diseases of the spectacularly.beautiful birds:

To learn more about these birds, and offer yourvkibd help, please visit the speaker's website:

https://www.littlegreenpigeon.co.uk/

It Snowed Last Night

Something Foxy This Way Comes

Haven't seen this gorgeous fellow for a while. It was nice to see him visiting our garden again today.

A Sad Tale I'll Never Tell

Paw-lickin' Good

We got a Maccy D delivered last night. The delivery guy included someone else's order of chicken nuggets. Unable to eat them ourselves, we stuff them out as a wildlife treat. And sure enough, within minutes of putting them out, one of our garden foxes took the lot:

A Wrong 'un

This wildtype miscreant is another of our neighbour's cats. You only have to make eye contact with her for her to scatter as though demons from hell were about to attack lol. Her name is Goldie:

She knows and I know she was up to no good when I spotted her through the kichen window. She was hiding out amongst these flowers, eyeing up the baby sparrows that are frequenting our garden:

pic by Mrs. Pixie-Led

Pic by Mrs. Pixie-Led

A Foxy Morning

JLS Purveying his Kingdom

Fox on a Cold Tin Rood

Boxing Day Garden

I put our Christmas day leftovers out in the garden in the afternoon to feed any hungry wildlife that happenned to pass by our patio. Whilst the second visitor was no suprise and cleaned up the bulk of the meal, the first visitor got a few roast potatoes down their throat before the food was cleared:

A foggy close to Boxing Day:

Down in the Dump

Wednesday, 20 March, 2024

"I'm beginning to feel like I live down the rubbish tip.

I know I promised to stop taking pics of gloves, lol, but I couldn't resist snapping these. I don't think that this particular pair were lost tho - just waiting for action:

I twinged my back today getting things out of the house and down the dump. North Gower didn't disappoint and the caravan park we are staying at gets some to temper my aches and pains:

Our Garden Fox is Getting Brave

Tuesday, 05 May, 2024

Ramshorn Water Snails Nano Tank

I recently set up a nano rams-horn snail aquarium from an old jar, a couple of moss balls and some green sea glass I have gathered over the years during my numerous beachcombs. The snails seem to have settled in well, and they have been feeding off the debris among the old moss, and the tank should become a self-care environment. They self-regulate their egg-laying depending on how well they are dining, so it should be easy to tell whether I need to add a few flakes of fish food to the jar...