Tag: pigeon

  • Rachel 1; pigeons 5

    Rachel 1; pigeons 5

    For the past couple of weeks I’ve been trying to catch some pigeons with stringfoot at a local shopping centre. Stringfoot is a common affliction among urban pigeons where thread gets tightly tangled around their toes, cutting off the blood supply and eventually the birds loses a toe or sometimes the whole foot. It must…

  • Pigeon rescue, St Andrews, Rufflets, and antique lecture notes

    Pigeon rescue, St Andrews, Rufflets, and antique lecture notes

    We got back to Aberdeen today after a couple of nights in St Andrews. Daniel wanted to go to the university open day so we decided to make it a short family holiday. More on that later. Far more exciting right now is that not long after arriving back Victoria became obsessed with something behind…