Squabby.

[flitsnowzoom]

It sure is nice to get a victory every once and again!
Glad to hear the babies are trying out their wings a bit and getting a bit adventurous. I'm jealous, everybody here has their own pigeons and all I have are visitors (pout, pout).

[draykie]

Here, they started off as visitors as well. You just need a barbecue and a nice, warm tarp over it.

[Charis]

Originally Posted by flitsnowzoom

It sure is nice to get a victory every once and again!
Glad to hear the babies are trying out their wings a bit and getting a bit adventurous. I'm jealous, everybody here has their own pigeons and all I have are visitors (pout, pout).

I can remedy that for you. Just tell me where to ship them and how many.

[flitsnowzoom]

Originally Posted by draykie

Here, they started off as visitors as well. You just need a barbecue and a nice, warm tarp over it.

Hah! All I get under my barbeque are some very nasty wasps!

[draykie]

I'm suddenly a bit happier that it's usually too cold on the top floor of a southwestern Canadian apartment for hives to be built.

[draykie]

Another small update.

Still no sign of the Orkin guys. Hooray. We had bad rain for the past two days as well, so hopefully, if there -is- any poison left, it's very diluted or washed away now.

In other news, the babies are almost ready to get out. They've already mastered flying to the top of our balcony bar and one even made it up to the roof already, with Mom's encouragement. Mom also rewards the babies when they fly higher, kissing them and feeding them, but the big one - who is most definitely male - won't have any of the kissing. He's really begun to take on a macho image, because he seems embarrassed by his mom kissing him around the neck, and kept an older hen out of the house by blocking her off earlier today. He's also been helping his smaller sibling, who is probably a girl, find the water fountain and food on our balcony, and watching over her while she eats, drinks, and flies.

They grow up so fast.

[TAWhatley]

Good news all the way around, Draykie! Thanks for the update!

Terry

[draykie]

Are pigeons ever openly fascinated with the unusual traits of others?

What I mean is that there's this one pigeon, a very small male or a young hen, that seems to be constantly infatuated with one of the babies and his little feather pants. It'll go up to him, looking him over closely, then start pecking lightly at his feet. Of course, he doesn't enjoy this much, and he headbutted it today in frantic self-defence. Considering the fact that neither I nor I think the headbutted pigeon had ever seen a bird headbutt someone, it was funny in a surprising sort of way. He's becoming a territorial brat way too quickly.