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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I don't give a shit about your politics drama, and i don't want to have anything to do with it. Please stop reposting my pictures here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Stop reposting my pictures here, i don't want nothing to do with your politics. How self-righteous can you be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours 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.

 

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours 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.

 

In a metro station. Pretty damn cool how it was sailing all the way down the long escalators.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lots of local "speciality" breeds. And of course not just for beauty, or athletics but also perversions like ground roller pigeons who are bred for having a severe movement disorder and only tumble in backflips across the ground instead of being able to fly. Although i guess in the eyes of the breeders this is beautiful and athletic.

Thanks for having another look after the pigeon!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah i meant dovecote, as in an actual domestic pigeon house. Pretty sure that it's a breeders pigeon that got stranded. Just because it looks so unique nice golden and of course the ring. Maybe you could report the sighting to a bird / pigeon group, at least where i live, there is an active scene of people who try to secure pigeons like that.

Not sure if you know, but feral pigeons pretty much all stem from abandonded dovecotes, stranded wedding doves, lost carriers or other breeds that managed to survive and reproduce in the cities, they are not really wild animals but more like stray pets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Poor bird. Looks like the right wing is hurt too, seems like it's hanging down. Have you seen it fly? A pigeon that is so visibly weak is usually super weak, they try real hard to hide it until they just can't anymore.

If you happen to see it again, maybe you could try to secure it and hand it over to some pigeon care / animal shelter, if you have something like that around. Or contact the carrier / pigeon breeder association and give them the ring number. Some breeders are real assholes though and don't want their "failures" back. It is probably super hungry and relatively easy to secure when you feed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Beak makes it look more like an adult bird to me.. Also that it apparently did not find its way back to its dovecote. Gonna be tough in the streets. But a nice looking pigeon!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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:

 

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for keeping your windows dirty as a bird protecting measure, i do the same 😇

 
 

Father taking the kids for their first little rounds off the balcony.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, alright that sounds great, so cool that you get to work with owls now too! I am also volunteering in animal help, but with normal pigeons, not superb owls 😆 Also all really awesome people involved there, quite happy i slid into this (by catching a sick pigeon and looking for help).

That is funny that the squirrels keep chilling in the cage! Are they still there today?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Impressive photos, real cool.

Now i am curious what you released the squirrels from, why did you have them?

 
 

Love the light there in the evening.

 
 
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