Mayhem in North London as perambulating pigeon assumes pedestrian privileges!

[swee'pea99]

Starkly contrasting with Accy's account of the sleepy hamlet that is Accrington, our journey to Wood Green in the further reaches of the frenzy that is that there North London was rudely interrupted last night, and I shaken out of my daydreaming, by my missus braking to a halt, saying: "Look at this! Get your phone out!" Unfortunately I was too slow witted to do the latter but I did manage the former, looking up to see an oncoming car stopped at a zebra crossing, which was what had caused my wife also to stop, with a pigeon striding across the crossing, for all the world like a regular upright citizen, except 9" tall. Having stopped, my wife could hardly then ignore it and drive on, so we sat there while it calmly continued its progress across the crossing till it reached our side of the road and walked off up the pavement.

 

[stephec]

Maybe it identifies as a Pelican?

 

[postman]

Maybe it identifies as a Pelican?

Oh no something more majestic a Zebra

 

[biggs682]

We have some very London like pigeons who have taken up residence on our solar panels, there in for a shock in a couple of weeks when the pigeon fencing goes up

 

[postman]

, there in for a shock in a couple of weeks when the pigeon fencing goes up

every flipping thing is going up in cost.How much is it to fence pigeons now.

 

[biggs682]

every flipping thing is going up in cost.How much is it to fence pigeons now.

A good few feathers

 

[PhotoNic69]

...... when the pigeon fencing goes up

Pigeon fencing ?
foil, épée, or sabre?

That would be cool as F to watch!!! En Garde!!

 

[Chris S]

I thought this was one of sungod's threads when I saw the title.

 

[Drago]

Wasn't there a Hitchcock film about birds taking over? Psycho?

 

[biggs682]

Wasn't there a Hitchcock film about birds taking over? Psycho?

Do you mean The Birds ?

 

[Drago]

Do you mean The Birds ?

Yeah. They're easy to mix up.

 

[biggs682]

Yeah. They're easy to mix up.

Never watched it

 

[Pinno718]

It's about time we had a low button for hedgehogs at pedestrian crossings.

Birds are far more intelligent than we give them credit for. In a study of seagulls nesting on a cliff face on the South West Coast, the most notable things that cane out of it were:
When there was a surplus of food, they would bury the food in nooks and crannies. They would remove the food to consume/feed chicks according to how long the food had been there i.e oldest first. Other seagulls wouldn't touch another seagulls stash. And this is the most surprising observation: in the event a parent went missing (usually due to a fatality), other seagulls would use the stash that that missing parent had stored/other parent to feed the chicks who were missing one parent.
Parrots were often thought as simple mimics but the mimicry requires memory and memory capacity is linked to intelligence.

Anyhoo, [in a not to dissimilar thread] there's a documentary film about stray dogs. In the docu film (amongst other things), is how the dogs latch on to people to cross roads safely and how they have adapted to their conditions.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C501MOh9Qc