Martin, who has done some lovely flights of pigeon reporting himself, just let me know that according to Gothamist, it’s National Pigeon Day today, and here’s the pigeon post from those eagle-eyed swifts at City Room. I don’t want to hear any boring cliches about winged rodents; these are our birds, and we’re all living together trying to peck out a living in this pitiless metropolis, so let’s show our fellow citizens a little compassion. And appreciation: They’ve got a beauty and gumption all their own. (John Tierney knows so, too.) Cast not the first stone at a beaked neighbor, lest you be shat on in return!
So, to paraphrase Pogo’s Churchy LaFemme, Friday the 13th comes on a bird’s day this year.
