FLAPPER, my personal Pie-Pigeon, who hangs out round the cherry tree on the corner, was nowhere to be seen this morning. I hope he's OK and not been made into a pie by somebody else. Maybe he has decided to do a spot of homing and flapped off somewhere wood pigeons like to congregate on their days off. Bankholiday Monday's coming up. Maybe Flapper is ensconced up some Parisian tree, in a five-star nest with some exotic bird... preening each other's plumage; ordering the choicest seeds on nest-service and feeding them bill-to-bill... all the while cooing sweet nothings...
Quite the imagination - but wouldn't he be even more likely to find himself in a pie in Paris?
ReplyDeletePerhaps, but I'm sure he's glad he wasn't born a frog or a snail!
ReplyDeleteFor sure he's over there for the long weekend ... I can picture the two of them strolling wing tip to wing tip down the rue du rivoli cooing to the little sparrow's non regrette ;)
ReplyDeleteThat's a great photo*!*
Did you know there used to be loads of house sparrows in London, about 20 years ago. Pigeons and sparrows, that's what you used to see, in huge flocks, pecking breadcrumbs off the paving. Now it's just pigeons and no-one can explain why. Perhaps all those sparrows emigrated to Paris ... who knows?
ReplyDeleteWe have a holiday on Monday as well (Memorial Day). Thank God. I am so tired of working.
ReplyDeleteI hope your Flapper comes back to roost.
Love you, buddy. Have a good weekend. I hope your Mother is feeling well.
SB
BIG NEWS! I think I heard Flapper cooing at 6am ...
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that Flapper is back. Give him a treat for flying home.
ReplyDeleteAye I will, when I next see him. He seems to like our cherry trees first thing in the morning for a coo. He also pecks round on the street around them, where he spots me and flaps off...
ReplyDeleteWe have a pet pigeon name Pidgie. She's very sweet when she's not laying eggs.
ReplyDeleteShe's in love with my husband.
Janice~
... you mean you actually keep the pigeon in a nest or a loft in your house?! Seriously??
ReplyDeleteFlapper just lives in the tree outside. I have adopted him as mine but he's not tame... Wood pigeons are wilder than street pigeons, by a long way. I also noticed they are bigger ("more portly" as the BBC website proclaims..!) with different markings ~ matte rather than gloss feathers and a distinctive white cravatte at the throat...