WOOD PIGEONS' LATE NESTING.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—In reply to your correspondent's inquiry, about the end of September, 1898, a pair of woodpigeons built a nest and in November hatched and successfully reared two young birds in my acacia tree here. As far as I know they were the second pair known to nest in London, the first being a pair that built in a tree in the Green Park overhanging the pave- ment of Piccadilly—a fact which was called attention to in your columns at the time. Since then woodpigeons have several times nested in my acacia trees, once, if I remember right, as late as December and as early as January ; but they have not done so now for several years past, owing, perhaps,
to the gradual decay of the trees. But they are as fond as ever of eating any acacia blossoms, and when the fruit is ripe a dozen of them may be seen in my mulberry tree at a time. I noticed some in Paris a few years back in gardens near the Rue de Rivoli. I suppose they have discovered that in Paris, as in London, guns are not allowed.—I am, Sir, &c., 7 The Bolton, S. Kensington, S.W. H. R. REYNOLDS.
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