While Fern was out today deconstructing a giant spray-painted pigeon on the facade of a North Avenue building, I was in Fells Point, where I encountered the old-fashioned three-dimensional kind that coos and leaves droppings on statues.

I saw two of them, actually, positioned in an open window, keeping a watchful eye on the 600 block of South Broadway.

Fells Point block watch captains? (Photo by Mark Reutter)