Saint Helen's Wharf is a noted beauty spot on the River Thames, just upstream of the medieval bridge at Abingdon-on-Thames. The wharf was for centuries an important transport and shipping link up the Thames and between canals from Oxford and the perched pigeons, covering every spare surface, don't care. They're just chilling. Except for the single blurred fellow, just landing to grab his space before someone else

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