This young pigeon showed up in our yard a few weeks ago. It was searching for food pretty much all day below a feeder that’s hanging in the garden, desperately looking for scraps that the finches and tits would leave. I felt a bit sorry for it. When it made its way to the balcony i gave it some seeds but quickly stopped doing so again, because it started squatting the balcony for the whole day. I don’t want it to think that life is about hanging out on the balcony, waiting for someone to show up with seeds.

A few days ago then i was watering the balcony plants in the evening and noticed pigeon shit on the basil. I looked up and there it was sleeping:

(was a lot darker than it seems on the photo)

It must have slept there the night before already. I moved the basil and built some kind of poo catcher. Quite impressive how much poo it left in a night 😅 It stayed for about five nights but yesterday it did not show up, i guess it was too busy on the balcony. Still leaving the poo catcher for now in case it shows up again tonight.

  • bonjour@mander.xyzOPM
    1·
    6 days ago

    It did not show up in the last four days, but tonight it is sleeping there again. Luckily i did not remove the poo catcher yet, haha.

    • bonjour@mander.xyzOPM
      3·
      9 days ago

      Thanks, yeah i have been very happy with the feeder, i have removed it a couple weeks ago, but for the winter season i am going to build a new one like that, just a bit roomier and with more sticks to perch on towards the balcony windows.
      Here’s a better view of it:

        • bonjour@mander.xyzOPM
          2·
          5 days ago

          It’s amazing how it is going off, so many birds coming. I think i’m really lucky in my yard with the birds. I have built another feeder, but i did not set it up last winter:

          The wooden one is much nicer to watch, because the birds stay around to eat, at the lamp one really only the parakeets stay, the others grab a snack leave.