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□ THIS year, a pair of wood pigeons made a nest in a small tree in my front garden and laid two beautiful white eggs, from which hatched two comically ugly little chicks. I watched them each day as they grew and began to turn into two cute, feathery balls of fluff. However, as the chicks got bigger, the nest became unstable and began to tilt forward and threaten to slip from the tree. The heavier the chicks became, the more the structure tilted, and it seemed certain that they would fairly quickly fall out and plummet to the ground, their short lives over before they had begun. However, with a few bamboo canes threaded through the foliage, I was able to create a restraining barrier that shored…