The Pigeon Lady is causing a flap in St. James Town, where huge flocks of birds follow her every step to devour the food she spreads.

Wherever she pushes her bundle buggy, the pigeons tag along, swirling around pedestrians and filling the air, while smattering the sidewalk with droppings.

We were driving along Wellesley St. recently when we spotted hundreds of pigeons in front of the St. James Town Food Basics store, east of Sherbourne St. — so many that we just had to pull over.

An elderly woman was slowly moving along the sidewalk, ladling out bird seed from a buggy, while a dark mass of pigeons covered the ground around her.

The buggy was loaded with sacks of seed and also a big bag of Whiskas — signs that she has an, uh, uncommon commitment to feeding birds, and quite likely feral cats.

Pigeons hovered above her and swarmed people walking in and out of the store, who bobbed and weaved around birds crowding the sidewalk.

A guy at one of the tables in a rag-tag flea market outside the store said he has seen her spreading seed along Wellesley before, always surrounded by an enormous flock.

“There are pigeons all over the place when she comes around,” he said. “Too many.”

Pigeons are adept at feeding themselves, judging by the mess they leave wherever they roost (which we wrote about on Sept. 14), so we asked her the obvious question: Why are you feeding them?

“Because they get hungry just like we get hungry, that’s why,” she said.

So you try to take care of them?

“Take care of their hunger, yes. Because I know how it feels to be hungry.”

She steadily scooped handfuls of seed onto the sidewalk as she shuffled along, while the flock moved in tandem with her.

It may be irritating to run a gantlet of pigeons and their plentiful feces, which can spread disease and be tracked inside on the feet of people who step in it.

But who’s going to stop her, and how?

As far as we can tell, the Pigeon Lady isn’t breaking any law.

If anything, her willingness to feed the birds is admirable, even if her choice of location could be better, like a nearby park.

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It’s not like they wouldn’t come along.

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