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I might have a slightly bigger problem now though - rabbits. We have
had
some in the front garden a couple of times and I got the dogs to chase
them away so hopefully they will get the message and not come back.

Aren't you lucky? As above but make a meal of it to go with the runner
beans.

I can go along with that - just as long as the wife doesn't mind her
gloves constantly moulting.

Agreed. First wife had a rabbit skin fur coat, back in the '60's. It
moulted
all over the place.

That's because rabbits moult continuously, rather than at set times of
the year.

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The trouble with pigeons is that the descend on the farmers' fields and
tuck into the seed he's just sown, and that's usually dressed with
pesticides and fungicides, and that is absorbed into the pigeon's flesh.
Too many pigeons can be bad news for the nosher of casseroles.

Does it remain in the flesh? Do they make safer eating later in the year?

Some does, and i would guess, some doesn't.

Fortunately (I think) mercury isn't permitted as a seed dressing any
longer, which was one reason for poison pie.

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