Pigeon Surprise 7

Well, the pigeons were back in our son's balcony! They settled on to an empty flower pot again, on the one that had just plain soil filled in. They laid 2 eggs, as usual, in a span of 48 hours. They kept them well. Brooded... and finally hatched them. The little ones were very cute. They grew up in front of our eyes every day. The adults kept a very close watch on them. Whenever we playfully tried to poke our hand near the little ones, the adults bounced on us with a noisy pat with wings and a yell to shoo us away. They were always guarding the balcony. They brought food for the little ones regularly. Our son kept watching them all the time. He talked about giving the young ones a better shelter on colder nights. He felt low whenever the adults didn't come back and show up at the balcony for a stretch of 10-12 hours.

While this was going on one side, there were more pigeons coming and trying to settle in our main balcony as well as our son's balcony. They kept laying more eggs... we saw nearly 10 eggs over a period of 4-5 weeks... and we kept aborting all those! Would have been a menace if we had allowed them to progress!

These two little ones though, grew and learned enough, and finally they hopped down from the pot to the floor. They walked around. They played around in the balcony for a few weeks, and they grew slowly and steadily.

From the eggs that were laid around 18th May, finally the little one's grew up well... and... flew away around 10th July. A full cycle was complete successfully!! Take a look at the pictures.

Pigeon Surprise 6

What to say... it was a tragedy, yet again!

For the first 3-4 days after the little ones came to see light, they were all happily feeding and growing up etc. It was a nice sight for us all days and nights.

But on day 5 we first found both chicks on the floor, down from the pot soil. We wondered how the mother brought it down.

The very next day, one was missing suddenly. We suspected that it might have walked to close to the balcony edge where there is a gap through the grill, and probably it might have had a fatal fall all the way down from our 4th floor (level-5 actually!). But there was no way we could confirm. It was, just, missing from the scene!

And, again, the very next day, our son saw the mother grabbing the other little one and trying to fly out of the balcony grill, and, lost grip of the chick -- while on flight! The chick fell on to the balcony railing of the floor below us! But... luckily, it seemingly survived, even after that. However... a few hours later... we did not find it there. Disappeared from the scene!

That was the end of Solomon Grundy!

How sad.

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Pigeon Surprise 5

Well, here is the good news finally!

The pigeons, after we aborted their project, not once but twice (yes, a second time again) in our main balcony, they chose our son's other balcony! In another plant pot! It laid exactly two eggs again, they both took turns to brood them for the past few weeks...

And finally, ahoy, here we go... The eggs hatched yesterday... Here are the new little ones ahoy! Take a look and feel good!

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Pigeon Surprise 4

Well, well, well...

This never seems to end. Three days ago, the Pigeons came back to camp - at our mini garden in the balcony. Back with a fresh project: An Egg once again... in one of their favorite plant pots! And this time in a pot where we have our fresh new drumstick sapling! Well, what was exciting initially -- with 3 episodes before this, see Pigeon Surprise 1, Pigeon Surprise 2 and Pigeon Surprise 3 -- now turns out to be a trouble actually? Opinions, Interests and Perceptions change for man so soon and look how! This time we decided to abandon their project! Pigeon egg - anybody?

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Pigeon Surprise 3

Here is an almost final, climax, update to the Pigeon Surprise incident that I had first posted on 16th December 2011, with that subsequent update on 7th January 2012.

The two eggs have hatched successfully under effective brooding of the adults!

The young ones are doing well, growing under the warmth of their elder ones. Here is a picture of the happy scenes at 5 PM, 21/Jan/12.

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Pigeon Surprise 2

There is an interesting twist / update to the Pigeon Surprise incident that I had posted on 16th December 2011.

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Pigeon Surprise

We were very pleasantly surprised when the Pigeon had laid an egg in our garden, that too inside a pot!

Our garden, in the 5' x 12' balcony, is a small one but arranged reasonably well. We have a 3-step pot stand, a couple of hanging pots, and then some independent 2-level pot stands. The balcony is covered with safety grill. Since the time we moved in here, for the past 3 years, we have always found the pigeons visiting our garden. And when they come in, they pass time here -- they take a walk, drink water overflowing from the pots, eat seeds, pollen, insects and worms. Even though we have our garden chair placed very next to the pots, and we also spend time once in a while in this surroundings, the pigeons have never felt scared. They always like to visit our miniature garden in our small balcony.

But, we never expected that they will find our garden so comfortable to come in and lay an egg -- inside a pot that was kept filled with soil.