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    Two’s company

    May 11, 2021 4 minutes

    Write to us: Letters, Amateur Gardening magazine, Future Publishing Ltd, Unit 2, Eelmore Road, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 7QN (please include your address). Email us: amateurgardening@futurenet.com

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    SINCE moving house to a rural part of York 15 years ago, we have been blessed by the wood pigeon families to our garden. They are not always a welcome visitor to peoples’ gardens, and it crossed our minds that they would discourage other birds from using our bird feeders. We soon realised they are the most messy (poo everywhere), territorial bullies we have ever encountered, the most embarrassing promiscuous birds, known to us, they choose the

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