I don't feed birds in my garden but I often have pigeons around - Wood Pigeons. They are beautiful birds, big too, and they strut around like they own the place. I know there is a pair nesting in the guttering above my bedroom window, as the occasional egg has rolled down on to the patio, and sometimes they sit on the chimney and coo - it echoes down the flue.
We do feed the ducks on the canal and the Dam. They get left-over bread from an awful lot of people, not to mention tit-bits from the holiday-makers on the canal boats. All our ducks here are fat and fit but sometimes they seem to get thinned out. I presume it's coincidental that the Chinese Restaurant (which backs on to the canal) never runs out of crispy duck.
