Edmonton ALberta-Warning to feral lovers!!

It's always best to be covert when feeding. I have two little flocks that I feed, one behind my apartment building in the carport. Because I don't want my neighbors to know, I feed at night when the pigeons aren't around (throw the seed up on the carport roof). I call myself their "Secret Santa" because they get the benefit of the food - the carport roof is their buffet, they come by every day to see if there's anything to eat - but they don't know I'm the one putting it out, so I could pass one of "my" flock on the street and they wouldn't recognize me. The other flock is on a busier street where I get coffee every day, so I feed in daylight and the little buggers know who I am and fly down to greet me. There's a bunch of ladies in an office who step outside to smoke right where I feed (it's an otherwise blank walled building without many pedestrians), and sometimes they pop out for a smoke JUST as I'm arriving with a cloud of pigeons around my head. Whenever I see one of the ladies I don't feed, I just walk by. I'm sure they're totally on to me anyway, but I'll be darned if I'll confirm it by feeding in front of them. In fact, I almost never feed if someone is walking by, walking toward me, or standing there for any reason.

I suppose I *could* go up there at night and put the seed out and they wouldn't associate it with me, but this flock kind of got wiped out almost overnight - used to be 20 birds or more, now there are 5-8. And I like seeing them. Plus I don't like to walk up there at night, it's four blocks away and I'd have to cross a very busy street to get there.