neville park

check out this good pigeon nest I saw. one was busy bringing sticks to add.

I yelled "ever seen a baby pigeon?" at two intoxicated people passing by, and pointed out the pigeon nest to them. I tried to impress upon them that it was a really good nest, by pigeon standards.

*I'm* keeping Parkdale weird, what about you??

#pigeons #parkdale #toronto

Apr 23 at 11:37pmWeb
Show threadA cool crab wearing shadesApr 23
@nev Oh that is a damn good nest, for pigeons. Poor dears aren't made for this, they really want to be nesting in cavities in cliff faces where you just put a few sticks across the front to keep the eggs rolling out.
Show threadDeborah Preuss, pccApr 23
@nev I think I heard that pigeons are not great nest builders? So the bar is pretty low. Good enough!
Show threadMs. Que BanhApr 24
@nev Some people in fancy condos called the cops on me, back in 2012, by a waterfront walkway. I was physically blocking people from accessing beach stairs & refused to move for anyone. I was trying to protect baby otters from pesky humans. I was familiar with the longtime family of river otters & didn't want humans going down, trying to pester their family.
Cops showed up fast. I told them what was happening. They ended up telling people who reported me that I wasn't breaking laws & if she called again about me blocking people from entering otters den area, they'd be facing possible charges for making multiple non-emergency nuisance calls/reporting false crimes. The rare time I was OK with cops presence.
Show threadneville parkApr 24
@PhoenixSerenity good on you!! Here there's a beach boardwalk that some foxes sometimes den under and in multiple years the kits have been killed by people's dogs 😡
Show threadMs. Que BanhApr 24
@nev Dogs need to be leashed in areas where wildlife are breeding/nesting/denning!
Show threadMs. Que BanhApr 24
@nev I worked in a bird sanctuary before & was threatened with physical violence by shithead dog owners who refused to leash their dogs - even after their dogs killed multiple birds & scared off many others from safely nesting.
Show threadneville parkApr 24

@PhoenixSerenity dogs are banned from the entire Leslie Spit here (peninsula park with important bird nesting areas), I cannot imagine the havoc if they were permitted. People are absolutely terrible about leashing their damn dogs.

The dog we had when I was a kid would run off never to be seen again if she was off the leash for a single second, but 1) we were still able to have plenty of adventure with her on a 6' leash, and 2) other people's unleashed dogs were a terror to me.

(We took her camping in a provincial park, and she was on a very long lead attached to a stake in the ground. At her first sight of a white-tailed deer she ripped the stake out of the ground and took off obeying her wild wolf instincts. Had to switch to the most heavy-duty stake and a heavy metal chain. She had the neck of a sled dog.)

Show threadneville parkApr 24
@PhoenixSerenity (BTW these pidges are safe, nest is well off the ground and inaccessible. I really had to zoom to even see the baby)
Show threadPapyrusBrigadeMay 2
@nev Wow! I've never seen a baby pigeon.
Show threadWendiGoose 🇺🇦May 3
@nev @clive Usually just a couple sticks tossed together. That’s architecture!