An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about the cruel activity on the Common yesterday: Read more.

John Daley captured this winged spectre perched at the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street.

Josh Bittker captured a hawk enjoying some squab - and a vehicle that is probably going to need a good soak at a car wash - at Twin City Plaza in Somerville yesterday afternoon

Today's top research news comes via the New York Times, which reports a scientist has discovered that Boston and New York pigeons are genetically distinct - and that as with Red Sox and Yankees fans, the boundary runs through the middle of Connecticut.

Erik Hjortsho has posted video from his doorcam showing a hawk swooping in and grabbing the pigeon that had been resting above his door.

As the snow began to fall on Washington Street in Downtown Crossing this afternoon, a pigeon found a place to ride out the storm.

On the other side of the Shawmut Peninsula, some sailors were not as eager to get in from the snow: Read more.

One of the statues in the Irish Famine Memorial couldn't get this pigeon off her head at lunchtime today.

A worried citizen reports on conditions on Wellington Hill Street in Mattapan: Read more.

Just what it sounds like: Questions posed to pigeons.

H/t Peepears.

City officials say they're noodling ways to keep pigeons away from the statutes of the Irish Famine Memorial in Downtown Crossing, since signs urging people to stop feeding the damn birds have failed miserably.

In response to a citizen request to clean the statues, the city says: