What pigeons do on Christmas Day?

[Feefo]

It is midwinter. The forecasters say the temperature will plummet tonight. It is also Christmas day. The city centre will be empty all day. No french fries or bits of bread roll or pizza dropped accidentally or deliberately by the shoppers for the pigeons to eat.

I went into the city before sunrise to leave a healthy breakfast at each of the spots where I know pigeons congregate. Far too early for any of them to be up, but as I walked down a pedestrianised area I saw a single grey and white pigeon walking ahead of me scanning the paving anxiously.

How hungry must a pigeon be to come down that early?

I tossed it a handful of mixed corn...he didn't hear or see it drop. Another handful. Now he stopped...he had spotted what he was looking for and picked it up eagerlly. He tested it in his beak...then he flew off to deliver the little twig he had found to his appreciative hen, waiting in the nest.

Christmas day, mid winter, plummeting temperatures and a pigeons mind is still on breeding!

Merry Christmas one and all.

Cynthia