Tag: pigeon
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Victorian toilets and another pigeon destrung
Last Friday I was wandering around Aberdeen city centre checking out venues for the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention as I’m a volunteer lead organising the busking trails for the event. One of the venues we booked are the Victorian toilets beneath Union Street. They’re obviously no longer toilets and indeed smell a lot nicer than…
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Another pigeon destringed and a trailer for Elizabeth’s game
I went to Union Square to get a few things yesterday but did not plan to attempt any pigeon destringing as my trusty helper Ben couldn’t come, so I left the net at home. However, I still investigated the pigeon situation to see who was there and immediately saw two birds foraging on the ground,…
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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…
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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…
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