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’The Light Green Bird’ painted by Edward Lear in Northern Italy circa 1880
via @V_and_A The Victoria and Albert Museum

Dear Journal ..
Today a lady in a hooded puffer jacket was pushing another lady in a wheelchair .. they came along the pavement and threw bread, aiming at the edges of our feeding group so the shy birds got some .. I did okay

Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), closest living relative of the extinct Dodo. French illustration from 1950s.

Dear Journal ..
Still at Camberwell mostly down by Wyndham Road .. what with people chucking stuff out of cars I hardly had to move .. also it was windy & bits of food came down the road on the breeze

'Snow Pigeon' #Columba_leuconota from 'A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains’, published in 1832.
Painted by Elizabeth Gould.

Key West Quail-doves (Geotrygon chrysia) painted 1832 by John James Audubon (1785-1851). The purple flowers are railroad-vine, white flowers are rubber-vine

Dear Journal ..
Today we had peanuts on the balcony of a council flat. Out of fourteen birds I came in fifth in terms of quantity ingested. Well I got 15 peanuts down my gregory peck in seven seconds flat. Not bad and now I can sit quietly and transfer from crop to tummy.

Dear Journal ..
good advice is avoid chimneys
don't breathe your last in some boarded-up fireplace

Dear Journal ..
tonight the hidey-hole is in Carter Street Walworth nice full crop no real worries

Dear Journal ..
Still on the peck at Camberwell.
I had a couple of mates round here - Freckle and Bluey. Sadly Freckle got hit by a white van - she has cooed her last coo