Sentence examples for pigeon watching from inspiring English sources

I bring it back in notebooks, poly bags of plants (and poo) and photographs, so when I'm writing in my study, where I really am is a Colombian riverside, an Indian jungle or a Dominican fishing boat – with a few moments of Welsh pigeon watching, as a break.

The pigeon watched the men with its vacant pigeon stare.

A.: It's probably breadcrumbs, not lampposts, that are attracting the pigeons, says Veronique Connolly, a Cornell ornithologist associated with the university's Project Pigeon Watch.

Pigeons tend to adopt the same hours as other creatures in their environment, says Karen Parcell, an assistant at Project Pigeon Watch and Urban Bird Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

As your new pigeon watches you handle your old one, taming, and bonding with the new one will be much easier.

Eric Niven of Dundee says: "This wood pigeon was watching us having our Xmas dinner in Leven". Rainbow on Christmas Day over Shawbost on the west side of the Isle of Lewis, taken by Charlie Green.

Ever get a feeling like the pigeons are watching you?

The climactic passage of "The Origin" 's opening chapter is at once innocently wide-eyed and scalpel-sharp conclusive, using the amused first person to make the central, impersonal point: I have discussed the probable origin of domestic pigeons at some, yet quite insufficient, length; because when I first kept pigeons and watched the several kinds.

The climactic passage of "The Origin" 's opening chapter is at once innocently wide-eyed and scalpel-sharp conclusive, using the amused first person to make the central, impersonal point: I have discussed the probable origin of domestic pigeons at some, yet quite insufficient, length; because when I first kept pigeons and watched the several kinds..

"when I first kept pigeons and watched the several kinds, knowing well how true they bred, I felt truly as much difficulty in believing that they could ever have descended from a common parent, as any naturalist could in coming to a similar conclusion in regard to the many species of finches, or other large groups of birds, in nature".

Even if pigeon lovers don't approve of his hunting, we have to admit that it's a better spectator sport than watching pigeons root around in garbage.