pigeons

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nemo
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I was really puzzled by the article in the Dom Post in the weekend featuring local architect Angela Foster claiming that Wellington was an “expensive and constipated drain hole that can’t get moving” – and saying, like John Key did a decade ago, that “Wellington was dying”. It appears that she is comparing Wellington to Melbourne – and that we come off very much second best….

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Maximus
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I swear, these things are breeding. A whole family has appeared overnight. Luckily the weather has taken its toll on them already, and one of the blighters is on its way to pigeon-pie land.

Maximus
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I know that Wellington has a pigeon problem, but it does seem to have grown all out of proportion…. seen here near Prefab cafe. Does anyone have advice on how to kill / dissuade pigeons ? Even if they are smaller than this one….? Post-script: far from flying away completely, following its disappearance from Prefab, the giant bird is now perching on a rooftop at the…

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Maximus
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A sperm whale washes onto a beach, in Paraparaumu, the place of many, many ovens. It is an extraordinary sight. Very few of the population have ever seen a whale before in real life – even fewer have seen a sperm whale. Almost no one has touched one. A jogger runs past early morning, snaps a photo, posts it onto Flickr. He is lucky: he is…