[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah I can post something when I'm done with the trip.

Now I have looked up agriturismo on Google maps, and most of them do not mention camping but they have rooms, even a pool, I am a bit surprised to see this now because i have passed "quite some" of them, they seemed to be littered all over the no-mans-inland and they all seemed camping ready and much more simple from the outside than what I see on google, some had a camping sign on them too. They were also all not listed in osm, not as a camp site at least.

I think they would expect you to eat there if you stay there, but I don't know if that is true.

I'm sure I will end up on one or the other, but not so sure if my sample size will be a good measure by the end of the trip.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I am waiting for my bus connection, so I have time to reply, haha.

What's up with the "quite some", is this not in the right context or what? Tried to look up its use but cannot really figure it out.

From what I read, half of the feral pigeons die before they're a month old and 90% don't make it a year. It is pretty tough shit, from the sheltered nest into the big city. When you see those clueless creatures on the streets, just trying to mirror the moves of the older pigeons, pecking at random ground, not even picking up any food, and also not knowing what is edible yet. It may look cute and funny but it is a real struggle. Not like the adults will care for them either, they'll peck at them, even the parents once they're old enough.

I tried figuring out how old wild rock doves, the wild ancestors of ferals get, it is kinda hard to find information because my rock dove research almost always turns into feral information. And there's a lot of conflicting information too. But what I currently think is the case, is that they get way older, more like wood pigeons or collared doves.

I definitely want to learn more about that, and what actually is going on with the rock doves.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I have only wild camped here twice yet, but yeah, I don't see a problem for the coming days. There seem to also be a lot of agriturismo places in the mountains, I guess farms where you can camp and probably get some food, also not opposed to use those. But I like wild camping too.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it is impressive. But the cable looks still kinda fine, good quality cable!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Oh wow, that is kinda crazy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No it is just two weeks of cycling Sardinia. Basically all around, I have no fixed plan but I am loosely following the Bikepacking Sardinia routes, have them as an overlay along with some others. But I also want to make it to the west coast. Not sure if i'll go all the way to Cagliari or turn west earlier, got to see how I will cope with the heat.

That camping spot was actually a marked possible camp spot "with a view" on the bp route, so I did not end up there by chance. And the dirt track that was blocked by the dogs was along the bp route.

It's nice cycling here, even though it is Italy so it's got Italian drivers. But inland there ain't much going on at all, it's quite lonely, which I like. Hardly any traffic even on the bigger roads other than sheep farmers etc. Bit hot for my taste, but I can't complain about that now, choosing to do it in summer.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Improperly sized cable housings? Like the length?

Yeah, generally no Spain etc in summer for me either. I was checking the forecast and it seemed alright for Sardinia, but my dumbass only checked coastal weather which looked fine, on the weekend it will be "only" 30 on the coast as well. 38°C is out of my comfort zone tbh, haha. Well, now I have to make it work.

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Oh yeah, you did not have the best luck with the weather. And spanish mud is a motherfucker 😆

It is getting pretty damn hot here, really exhausting on the climbs but I keep watering my shirt and hat that makes it bearable. Forecast says 38°C inland on the weekend, gotta take it easy.

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Love it. There is one couple in my yard but it never made it to my balcony, not that I know of. Only the wood pigeons. You got food there too or just the water?

I am right now sitting in a cafe, watching a collared dove bring sticks to the wistoria roof that covers the outdoor seats of the cafe.

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There it is 🥰

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Ah. So your original plan was to be on the road up to June which I figured you did. You gonna travel some more long time? Maybe with a tandem? ;)

This year I'll not do any longer trips, just regular holidays, got two weeks now.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Is ongoing, kinda hope to see a more cut case, but it's not like that was the reason for my holidays, just a side quest.

I've passed a few villages now that had feral looking pigeons, but they behave kinda weird. I've hardly seen them search food in the villages and they're very shy. The collared doves on the other hand I saw search for food in the villages. Feels a bit like bizarro land. I made up the theory that the feral looking population in at least inland Sardinia may be more of a rockdove. I am a bit confused. I guess the rockdoves lived here naturally, but I have found articles about people in Sardinia also being into breeding and racing pigeon sports.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

That was between Bitti and Nuoro, quite close to Bitti though. I am now in Orgosolo, eating gelato :)

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It grew up on the balcony above, this is one of its very first little flights. Don't think i saw it since.

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Leaves look like this:

it's growing in the same flower pot as the other one, about 80cm high.

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It's like two meters high and growing in the flower pot i use to empty the birds water dish in.

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And she also has a name.

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Very witty title.

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Hello bird friends. I have created a pigeon community to not post too much pigeon stuff here, as i don't think it fits all that well, but on some occasions i feel like it'd be fine to post. Like this one i took yesterday of this sweet couple. If you like pigeons, you are very welcome to [email protected] .

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/30632431

Just caught these two sitting together in the water dish 🥰 Made my day.

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Just caught these two sitting together in the water dish 🥰 Made my day.

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In a metro station. Pretty damn cool how it was sailing all the way down the long escalators.

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This young pigeon showed up in our yard a few weeks ago. It was searching for food pretty much all day below a feeder that's hanging in the garden, desperately looking for scraps that the finches and tits would leave. I felt a bit sorry for it. When it made its way to the balcony i gave it some seeds but quickly stopped doing so again, because it started squatting the balcony for the whole day. I don't want it to think that life is about hanging out on the balcony, waiting for someone to show up with seeds.

A few days ago then i was watering the balcony plants in the evening and noticed pigeon shit on the basil. I looked up and there it was sleeping:

(was a lot darker than it seems on the photo)

It must have slept there the night before already. I moved the basil and built some kind of poo catcher. Quite impressive how much poo it left in a night 😅 It stayed for about five nights but yesterday it did not show up, i guess it was too busy on the balcony. Still leaving the poo catcher for now in case it shows up again tonight.

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