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Dear Cunard Street: there has been a dead pigeon in your gutter for the last week. It makes me sad when I walk by and see a wing sticking out over the edge, and some of the other pigeons are getting upset. —Always Homing and Never Home
This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2010.
25 Comments
Rats with wings! How can you feel sorry for such a disgusting creature?
HRM has a cadaver removal service. Alert them as to the location of the dead bird and they will come and get it.
That is sad. There was a dead seagull on Summer St for at least a week last time I was by. There is no love for ordinary birds in the city these days.
you should have picked it up, taken it home, and made a nice pidgeon pie out of it, mmmmm.
PAS, you’re sad because a fucking gull was dead?
I wish to fuck they lifted the ban on killing those pieces of shit.
need more fish/chum trucks to go by so they can get all slimy and suicide off the back while it’s going a good clip.
I am sad, yes. Gulls and Pidgeons are essential creatures in the city because humans are so bloody filthy. Wanna see less of them? Get people to pick up after themselves.
Are you aware that dandelions are actually grown in gardens in some places because they’re a rare beautiful flower in some parts of the world? My point? Just because it’s common and seems in the way to you doesn’t make it any less beautiful as a piece of nature, it’s all about perspective.
I suppose. I’ve lived just off wharfs over half my life and would have given anything to get away from the god damn gulls. pigeons are ok… I suppose… but gulls get under my skin something fierce.
GO SHIT ON SOMEONE ELSE FOR A CHANGE…
I’d trade every gull out there for two pigeons each.
Don’t feel bad.
It’s dead, so it isn’t feeling anything !
unlike zZz, who sounds like, just the thought of sea gulls is going to make him go postal ( & I don’t mean sending out mail )
I hate those flying rats. They are everywhere! Ewwwww!
zzz. Lol. Getting shit on by a bird is def on the boooo urns list.
1 down, millions to go…
I had to walk a group of kids past that poor bird every day. Not fun 🙁
crows rawk…gulls are fine at sea when you’re moving
pas is right humans are gross…they’re just cleaning up our crapola
I’ve picked up dead birds and disposed of them in a kind and dignified matter. They are fellow creatures and don’t deserve to decompose before the eyes of the indifferent.
I’ve encountered two headless pidgeon corpses on Victoria Rd. within the past two months, and just the other day I found a headless squirrel on Tower. Somebody’s cat(s) must be having quite a good time. Ugh!
Oh no a serial killer in our midst…
you can’t say serial killer. it’s cereal
the moderator
Pigeons are nature’s trailer park boys, only following their prime directive, french fries and pizza crusts. I think they’re pretty comical, all that effortless strutting around Pizza Corner in the summer, until the crows or gulls chase them off. Too bad they didn’t wear bling and tiny baggy jeans with their explosive holes showing. Still, the poor little fuckers are living, breathing creatures and any dead pigeon deserves, at the very least, a burial in the Chickenburger dumpster.
Pigeons annoy me less than any panhandler. Never had a pigeon ask me if I had money or if I wanted to help it out today.
that was gold ttfn^^
The best pigeon I saw was the one on Gottingen missing a leg and balancing on his remaining leg. He was speckled white and black like someone tried to spraypaint him (maybe they did?). Precious Gottingen Memories! 🙂
yea god knows there’s not enough pidgeons these days; and what wonderful creatures they are all shitting all over everything and everybody; that’s it i’m curling into the fetal position and have a ggod cry over the loss of such a magnificent beast; oh the humanity 🙂
Why do people think there’s too many animals but not enough humans?
cosmo,
you are a crazy bird lady… your opinion means about as much.
and because YOU’ve never been shit on, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.
far as I’m concerned, you can HAVE the gulls and pigeons.. take em.
move to Zimbabwe for all I care. good riddance.
here’s an idea to cut down on the birds of shit, and maybe even the feral cats too. when you go to a park or some place that has lots of shit hawks, take them some small pieces of bread. but make sur it is laced with a good strong poison, they die, cats eat them, they croak too. you get rid of all the skanky birds, and a bunch of feral cats too. don’t get me wrong people, i like birds and cats too, just not the ones that make life outside miserable for most people. just don’t tell anyone you are going to do it, i’m pretty sure there is a stupid law against said offence.
Isn’t bread bad for birds? And I don’t know what the pigeons down by the ferry terminal have been eating lately but the shit they’ve been leaving everywhere makes me worry about ’em a little. Not natural in either colour or volume, to be sure.