Bloody Pigeons!

H wanted to see the lottie in it's winter clothes and we had some food for the birds. We dropped the car off near the lottie and walked up the drive. As I came up to the gate something did not look quite right. The Sprouting Broccoli was not so sprouty as it had been the previous day. When I looked the tops had been completely mowed off. It was not hard to work out the culprits since there was pigeon crap on some of the leaves and a scattering of feathers on the snow. The netting had some damage from flying debris in the gales. I had patched up the holes but not all, evidently. The birds had got in by the damaged netting and had tried to fly up and out though the good netting but lost a lot of feathers in the doing. It so happened that the damaged netting was right next to my neighbours cabbage patch which the birds had scoffed as well. The foot prints in the snow showed perhaps one or two pigeons had been strolling about looking for a lunch spot. Having had a starter of kale and cabbage on Pete's plot they then decided that the main course would be had next door at Chez McDowell. I am choked about the Broccoli. Where is your shotgun when you need one. A single action twenty gauge would do.