Pigeon nuisance in city

When a particular nuisance crosses a tolerance threshold, you

        can expect an E-message from at least one guy. Yesterday was a beautiful

        day in downtown Providence, clear blue,sunny sky in early August.

             Pigeons -ugly city birds - are a common sight downtown. I have

        never been tempted to even throw them a crumb of junk food. Ugly, filthy


        creatures. And yesterday I reflected that they were just TOO MANY !

        Not a few times they have decorated my thick -nest like - hair, while

        flying brainlessly from one messy spot to another. In a scene right

        out of Alfred Hitchcock's " The Birds "  I was actually dodging the

        nasty fliers.


                I must ask : Do pigeons serve any useful , ecological purpose ?

        And must we put up with their crapping all over the streets and sidewalks

        of a " come-back " city ?

            I propose a FINAL SOLUTION to the pigeon plague !