{"id":71565,"date":"2026-06-03T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=71565"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:40:16","slug":"pigeons-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/06\/pigeons-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeons 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That brown soul in the garden<br \/>\nThat pigeon that we see<br \/>\nCan Sleep with one eye open<br \/>\nVery purposefully<br \/>\nActually reaches REM sleep<br \/>\nOne eye at a time<br \/>\nGood neural activity<br \/>\nIt\u2019s dreams maybe sublime<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bones are actually hollow<br \/>\nIt\u2019s anatomy<br \/>\nReally extra special<br \/>\nAnd works miraculously<br \/>\nSitting heartbeat very slow<br \/>\nFlying very fast<br \/>\nIt is an amazing creature<br \/>\nIt\u2019s powers leave me aghast<\/p>\n<p>They mate for life<br \/>\nAnd rule the nest<br \/>\nAlmost equally<br \/>\nBoth create the crop milk<br \/>\nTo feed their lil baby<br \/>\nCalled squabs  when born<br \/>\nAre basic<br \/>\nFeatherless and blind<br \/>\nCovered in a yellow down<br \/>\nLike monsters that you find<br \/>\nThe crop milk is spectacular<br \/>\nAnd in the shortest time<br \/>\nOf love and care and passion<br \/>\nWhen the babies climb<\/p>\n<p>Out and fly, they are perfect<br \/>\nTheir weight increases fast<br \/>\nWalking you may have noticed<br \/>\nHead movement too a blast<br \/>\nAn optical illusion<br \/>\nHead thrusts forward too<br \/>\nBody then meets up with it<br \/>\nIt\u2019s how pigeons do<\/p>\n<p>The hokey pokey  ha ha <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That brown soul in the garden That pigeon that we see Can Sleep with one eye open Very purposefully Actually reaches REM sleep One eye at a time Good neural activity It\u2019s dreams maybe sublime It\u2019s bones are actually hollow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/06\/pigeons-2-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-and-the-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71568,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71565\/revisions\/71568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}