Sunshine, trees, flowers, a calmly preening great blue heron and Mr and Mrs Coot teaching their four toddlers what to do for food.
Very few pigeons here nowadays. Jackdaws have taken up their place.
Before, when I was growing up, sparrows were abundant. So we did what we could to eradicate them, after which the descendants of the pigeons that we once took from their sea cliffs flourished.
