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·Yesterday afternoon, a beautiful pigeon landed just at the edge of our pool. While a bit startled at first, it was obviously so comfortable with humans, my husband and I took a closer look and noticed that it had a dark green band on one leg and a bright green, with numbers on the other. It explored our fenced in yard, seemed to be in search of water, so we freshened the water in the bird bath and even put a little bird seed where it could eat. It did.
We watched this beautiful creature for another fifteen minutes or so, then went in the house, leaving it in the yard (poolside actually). I walked to our screened porch and noticed it on our roof, near the porch. Back inside to prepare dinner. Walked the dog and saw it atop my neighbor's home.
Dinner. A bit of TV and never gave the lovely creature another thought. It seemed healthy and quite capable of taking care of itself.
This morning, we found the remains of the bird at the edge of the pinestraw on a flower bed in the yard. I was crushed. Have wept and fretted like a silly girl at the loss. I guess I should have gone online last night and sought advice. We suspect a cat as don't think a possum or fox could scale our fence. Could have been a predatory bird, but doubt it would still be in our yard.
I am so so sorry to all of you who know and love these birds so......From the bright green band, we would like to pass along this information: AU with a GL under it and the numbers 1385......with 2008.
If there is anything I can or should do from here, please let me know.
Respectfully and with sincere regret and sympathy to whomever cared for this lovely creature,
J L Garr
Johns Island, SC
We watched this beautiful creature for another fifteen minutes or so, then went in the house, leaving it in the yard (poolside actually). I walked to our screened porch and noticed it on our roof, near the porch. Back inside to prepare dinner. Walked the dog and saw it atop my neighbor's home.
Dinner. A bit of TV and never gave the lovely creature another thought. It seemed healthy and quite capable of taking care of itself.
This morning, we found the remains of the bird at the edge of the pinestraw on a flower bed in the yard. I was crushed. Have wept and fretted like a silly girl at the loss. I guess I should have gone online last night and sought advice. We suspect a cat as don't think a possum or fox could scale our fence. Could have been a predatory bird, but doubt it would still be in our yard.
I am so so sorry to all of you who know and love these birds so......From the bright green band, we would like to pass along this information: AU with a GL under it and the numbers 1385......with 2008.
If there is anything I can or should do from here, please let me know.
Respectfully and with sincere regret and sympathy to whomever cared for this lovely creature,
J L Garr
Johns Island, SC