Subject: Bandtailed Pigeons
Date: May 5 21:58:01 1999
From: Mary Manson - tonihawr at email.msn.com


>In a message dated 5/5/99, 9:30:52 AM, cfeiss at halcyon.com writes:
><<This blows me away since I thought they were only found on the west side
of
>the Cascades.
>
>Caroline Feiss
>Seattle>>
> I wish that were true...I have about thirty of them absolutely
monopolizing
>my sunflower feeders. They are PIGs!! and I wish they'd go somewhere
else...
>(I live south of Olympia, by the way, on prairie..so much for their
>reputation as forest birds.)

Some city pigeons also spread disease to lesser birds ..... I don't know if
that's true for "wild" pigeons .....