There’s Puget Sound, and then there’s Pigeon Sound

| Seen around town | West Seattle beaches | Wildlife

Seen on the Alki promenade/boardwalk/whatever’s your preferred term:

By the way, tomorrow’s forecast is looking better, according to the fourth paragraph here.

Jiggers November 17, 2007 (12:41 pm)

I hate Pigeons. They are nothing but rats in the air with one purpose, to crap all over your roof and balcony.

chas redmond November 17, 2007 (2:35 pm)

They do provide a tasty treat for the handful of hawks who frequent the pigeon ponds and roosts. I’m all for more hawks and more pigeon-burgers. On the other hand, who would the folks at Pioneer Square feed the popcorn to, if not for the pigeons?

Jiggers November 17, 2007 (9:59 pm)

The problem is that people keep farking feeding them on sidewalks. Dont feed them then the will just hang around knowing sooner or later they’ll get some free handouts. It took me awhile to get rid of them on my balcony, but I assure you, I have no quarms about poisoning them if they keep on coming back.

Picklemom November 17, 2007 (10:58 pm)

Pigeons may not be the most appealing of all birds, but they’re tough, they’re resourceful, they’re survivors. Which is more than I can say for some of the idiots I’ve encountered around here.

WSB November 17, 2007 (11:09 pm)

We are fond of all critters including pigeons, seagulls, heck, even the squirrels in our attic and the mice that showed up in the living room a few years ago, because we dread the thought of this someday becoming a humans-only world, which would be incredibly dull, much as we love you all.

JumboJim November 18, 2007 (9:06 am)

I *heart* pigeons. We didn’t necessarily let them live in the niches of our old Green Lake place, but I sure loved watching them fly. There’s a reason they’ve evolved as they have – the Peregrine Falcon. Both shared cliff sites (when pigeons were wilder) and that’s why pigeons evolved to fly so fast…