At the bottom of the garden, there is a wisteria-laden archway (marked) leading to the kitchen garden ...
Photo 1: Wisteria Arch marking the entrance to the Kitchen Garden |
For a few weeks I have heard a gentle cooing coming from the wisteria with the occasional rapid exit of a wood pigeon when passing through the archway leading to the Kitchen Garden. A pair of wood pigeons had tried, unsuccessfully, to nest in our winter-flowering cherry last year. This year they paid regular visits to the flowering cherry tree but only (with hindsight) to collect twigs to build their very rudimentary nest in the wisteria.
On exiting the kitchen garden today (22nd July), I noticed a motionless wood pigeon sitting on a nest no more than a foot above my head.
Photo 2: Wood Pigeon Nesting in the Wisteria |
Photo 3: Wood Pigeon on its Nest |
Pigeons are slow and, outwardly, rather stupid so are easy meat for predators like the sparrowhawk and peregrine falcon. As one pigeon leaves this world, possibly several new ones enter!
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