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 ๐ 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.
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.