"My" Flock

[relofts]

What are you going to do with them all if they do come down, they may follow you home you do know that don't you, and then you will need a bigger loft.

Ellen

[zoo keeper]

great, a bigger loft. I think I do have pigeon fever. The kids always tell me I am going to wreck my car watching the sky or following my pigeons in my car

[relofts]

Ok, well lets see if you cut down the trees, take down the fence, fill in the pool, build stairs up to the roof, you might be able to fit them all in at the rate you are going.

Ellen

[zoo keeper]

Well the tree has been trimmed and I have talked about filling in the pond to put a loft there, I asked for the stairs to the roof and I was told to seek help!!!! The fence blew down, so that is not longer a problem. I think I just have the stair problem. LOL

[relofts]

Well heck just use a ladder and act like you fell off because you didn't have stairs to walk up, bet you will get your stairs soon then. With a loft on top of the roof your pigeons would be able to see home from that much further away.

Ellen

[zoo keeper]

You should not give me ideas. I have pigeon fever bad and they are starting to cloud my normal thinking process. Actually I wanted a patio on my roof so I could sit and watch them comfortably. You know a patio with a small fence around it, a table with an umbrella and starts going up to it. I wonder what my neighbors would think. They already think I am crazy climbing on the roof each time my birds fly. The tennis balls did work good the other day. I was tossing balls at the birds and they would fly get off the roof fast. LOL

[ZigZagMarquis]

Originally Posted by zoo keeper

great, a bigger loft. I think I do have pigeon fever. The kids always tell me I am going to wreck my car watching the sky or following my pigeons in my car

... and other people too.

Originally Posted by zoo keeper

The fence blew down, so that is not longer a problem.

... a result of blond-carpentry, huh?

[Yong]

I have a large flock outside my home office window, and I support them. It is VERY cool to see them coming swooping off the powerline when they see me go to my car. I don't get much work done though, as I love to stare out the window at them. I have a great set of binoculars, so that makes it even more fun. I have rescued some of them, so some have ID bands on them. It's fun to try and spot them. enjoy! Yong

[kooper]

the picture you posted looks awesome. i wish there was a flock living on my roof. i think it'll be so cool, feed and observing them. your very lucky to have them. it was very nice to me you and your other half of the family.

kooper

[Pete Jasinski]

Thank you! It's great having them around, I look forward to seeing them each morning and I think they feel the same. Here's a pic of them all coming down from the roof for their breakfast.
http://www.elliotscoins.com/images/myflock.jpg

[traci_sss]

Pete

what an amazing photo of the birds coming down to eat. I love the wing span being caught in the sunshine. I would love to be out every morning to watch this event. How wonderful. I don't have any feral pigeons in my area. I know it is wierd. I did when we lived in town, all I have out here now are sparrows and one very noisy woodpecker.

[Pete Jasinski]

Hi Tracie,
It's a treat to wake up to them every day. I'm not a morning person but they give me that boost I need to get up and start the day. I can't wait to go down and see them. I have my fair share of sparrows and woodpeckers! There's a redheaded and hairy woodpecker family living in my vicinity that come to feed and I know the noise you speak of!

[pigeonlover01]

your lucky you have all those friends , i wish i had pigeons on my roof all the time, i love pigeons and i have around 40 but i like em so much i always want more birds lol
i live in b.c. and sometimes our family will go to a place called "white rock"
its all located at the edge of the ocean and there is a bridge and stuff there.
Any way when ever our family goes there i always have a backpack and lots of corn handy........ every time i go there i attempt to catch some pigeons....
And everytime i try, i catch around 5 birds and take them home to my loft
its a great hobby i love them
recently i have been there and there are two homers there they are white and have a black tail both identical i have been trying to catch them but they are fast i hope i can catch them and put them in with my birds. lol any way i just thought i would htrow that in.
man i love this site you can talk to people who relate to you my mom and dad arent the typical pigeon people
but my brothers 5 and 8 years old they love em to.
got to go

[Garye]

My feral flock is annoyed when there is a lot of wind. Sometimes it takes them several times to land on the ground, the wind seems to scoop them up just as they are trying to land. It's sometimes funny to watch them as they are getting their landing gear down and then the wind picks them up again and they have to start all over again. They hate it! It's very windy here and they just have a hard time with the wind.

It's nice to know a lot of you are able to have pigeons visit you in your own yards. I could never do that. The neighbors here would complain so I just visit the pigeons at the shopping mall.

[Pete Jasinski]

Hi Andreas,
I feel special having all those pidgie pals, it's like they knew that they're welcome and safe here. How do you catch your pigeons? My flock would be easy picking if I decided to try and catch one, they come within inches of me. I would never try and catch one because I feel I would loose their trust plus they belong together as a family and I wouldn't want to separate a family unit. My family want really pigeon friendly until they got to know Dudley. Once they were sucked in by his charm they fell head over heals for him.
Gary, it was windy here today and my guys and gal were having the same trouble. I took almost half the day for them to come down and eat, they were very unhappy with the situation. I'm sorry to hear your neighbors are anti pidgie, unfortunately everyone isn't educated as well as we are and still believe they are dirty and disease ridden.