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1 Feb
2:31pm, 1 Feb 2024
6,187 posts
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Windsor Wool
They do damage too but the Woodpigeons just sit on trees and shrubs and completely strip them of buds. There’s an elderflower over the bottom fence from us - it hasn’t had flowers for years now, it barely has time to get in to leaf! The bigger issue is my prize wisteria though. My flower bud count last spring was 300+ but in the end there was only about 100 flowers. Then they started to eat the flowers themselves.
The Great 2024 Windsor War of Woolley vs Woodpigeon is about to commence. LOL!!
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1 Feb
2:35pm, 1 Feb 2024
6,188 posts
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Windsor Wool
Apologies. This is surely a thread for bird lovers. Which I *ordinarily* am!
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1 Feb
4:43pm, 1 Feb 2024
4,262 posts
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jacdaw
Bullfinches eat all the flower buds off my damson trees; I never get any fruit. But I love the bullfinches more than damson jam, so it's all good.
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1 Feb
4:48pm, 1 Feb 2024
5,019 posts
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J2R
WW, you should start a sparrowhawk breeding programme. Woodpigeons make tasty, hearty meals for sparrowhawks.
My pet hate at the moment is feral pigeons, a number of which have taken to roosting on a narrow sloping ledge at the side of my house (why???), and which crap all over my bike. Fortunately they don't seem to do any non-faecal damage in the garden or they'd be making me stretch the boundaries of my RSPB membership responsibilities. Sparrowhawks would take them out nicely, too...
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1 Feb
5:04pm, 1 Feb 2024
31,114 posts
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Rosehip
Also not a fan of wood pigeon - although the pie grandma used to make with them was rather good 
The annoying birds here are collared doves - because they sit on the chimney pot and coo and the noise echoes down the house.
Ok at this time of year, not so good at 4 in the morning in the summer
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1 Feb
5:20pm, 1 Feb 2024
4,263 posts
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jacdaw
Woodpigeon is delicious. Am I allowed to say that here?
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1 Feb
5:37pm, 1 Feb 2024
31,116 posts
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Rosehip
(And something we could make more use of, like grey squirrel and rabbit )
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1 Feb
10:39pm, 1 Feb 2024
5,020 posts
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J2R
OK, seeing as we've moved a LONG way from "isn't Nature lovely" here... And muntjac deer, Rosehip. People should eat more muntjac deer. Even vegans should eat muntjac deer to keep the numbers down, because they're munching everything.
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1 Feb
11:01pm, 1 Feb 2024
4,213 posts
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paulcook
My pet hate at the moment is feral pigeons, a number of which have taken to roosting on a narrow sloping ledge at the side of my house (why???), and which crap all over my bike. Fortunately they don't seem to do any non-faecal damage in the garden
If I forget and cross the road under the railway bridge here in Darlington rather than away from the bridge, then I have to wade through a sludge of pigeon poo in the middle of the road.
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1 Feb
11:05pm, 1 Feb 2024
31,118 posts
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Rosehip
Muntjac are a bit of a menace here, though they are road-stupid and therefore keeping a lot of kite and corvids well fed
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