Posted by Richard Redding
The horses and camels are back. As a result the pigeons have returned to Giza. Now, if we can just the tourists to comeback!
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Horses and camels are back in large numbers and adding fresh piles of dung to the environment. (photo by Richard Redding)
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Pigeons in flight. It turns out that it is hard to get the pigeons to sit still for a photo. But several hundred have returned and are in scattered flocks of 15-20. (photo by Richard Redding)
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This is as close as I could get to a small flock that was searching for fresh dung. (photo by Richard Redding)
For more information about the pigeons, see the earlier post “The Mystery of the Pigeons.”