{"id":126071,"date":"2014-12-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=076faa1dd99c9395c190f45d68f09188"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:43","slug":"pretty-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/pretty-pigeons\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Pigeons"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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I walked around my Brooklyn neighborhood today, scouting for handsome pigeons. I am partial to the piebald ones that have patches of iridescence. Although pigeons rarely seem to stay still for long (at least when I am trying to photograph them), some paused long enough for these portraits. Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Two-toned bill!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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And a poem – Pigeons by Richard Kell<\/p>\n

They paddle with staccato feet<\/p>\n

In powder-pools of sunlight, Small blue busybodies Strutting like fat gentlemen With hands clasped Under their swallowtail coats;<\/p>\n

And, as they stump about, Their heads like tiny hammers Tap at imaginary nails In non-existent walls.<\/p>\n

Elusive ghosts of sunshine Slither down the green gloss Of their necks in an instant, and are gone.<\/p>\n

Summer hangs drugged from sky to earth In limpid fathoms of silence: Only warm dark dimples of sound Slide like slow bubbles From the contented throats.<\/p>\n

Raise a casual hand – With one quick gust They fountain into air.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A puffed up pigeon on my porch celebrated the relatively warm day…<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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With a nap.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And a poem – Pigeons by Richard Kell They paddle with staccato feet In powder-pools of sunlight, Small blue busybodies Strutting like fat gentlemen With hands clasped Under their swallowtail coats; And, as they stump about, Their heads like tiny hammers Tap at imaginary nails In non-existent walls. Elusive ghosts of sunshine Slither down the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2148435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[3172,2450,1842],"class_list":["post-126071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-brooklyn","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-pigeons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}