Reblogged from JHartho on Tumblr
Coot fight in my backyard on Flickr.
Great photography – and how lucky to have waterbirds in your backyard. We’ve just got a small suburban garden in London with a bird table which until recently has been literally infested with pigeons.
As soon as we put out nuts, seeds or breadcrumbs for the local wildlife, down would come 20-30 pigeons like a swarm of locusts and everything would be gone inside a minute. The outside of our house became covered in pigeonshit as the bastards waited on the roof in rows for the next consignment of food. And pigeon fights are a lot less interesting and picturesque, I’m guessing, than coot fights.
In the end we put the seeds in a caged feeder where only the small birds could get them, and put up hanging cylinders of fat and nuts that the pigeons don’t like. The garden now features starlings, bluetits, jays, magpies and – the other day for the first time – a woodpecker. Result!
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