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So this is now the 4th spot on the balcony it has chosen to sleep. I just woke it up when i put tomorrow's raisins on the blackbird's plate and took the photo. I saw it before from the inside, it looked like the whole brain was asleep, haha. It has been sleeping here most of the nights since it showed up. One night we scared each other when i went out and it went flying, but returned. I wish it would find a better place to sleep.

I have been giving it some food every day, very early in the morning (it wakes me up, cooing at 5:15). So it has a bit of power for the day to search for more. I did not give it food at any other times and it does not hang out on the balcony. That's good.

It runs into quite a bit of trouble with other pigeons, but it is pretty strong and stubborn, not loosing all of the fights. There is also some bully pigeon who i somehow follows it around a bit, also to the balcony, bugging it at its original sleeping spot. Really weird, no pigeon ever hung out there before.

I'll now be on holidays for a bit and i hope it will look for something else.

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[โ€“] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

So...you want it to move somewhere else, but you feed it promoting it to return to where the food is.. am I understanding this correctly?

If you keep giving me free pizza every morning, I'm coming back to get more free pizza every morning.

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, i know. But it doesn't need to sleep here to get the food in the morning, and it had nights / mornings where it didn't. But i would also prefer for it to find food elsewhere. I just saw it struggling for survival and felt for it. I hope it finds its way when i'm gone, and that that way has nothing to do with my balcony.

I am giving treats to two amazing couples, which is what i would like to keep doing, i can't have the balcony become a crazy pigeon balcony, my neighbours hate pigeons. They have decorated theirs with spikes, fake crows and these plastic windmills ๐Ÿคฃ There is a crazy pigeon balcony on the other side of the yard, but i'm not sure if they feed outside of winter, can't look over there when the trees are green. They actually have the whole pigeon crew from the yard there, multiple sleeping guests.

[โ€“] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I would become a crazy pigeon balcony just to spite those spike placing haters xD

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Haha, tbh the main reason i don't want to have the crazy pigeon balcony is because of the mess, the mess is already sufficient for me as is. And her anti pigeon measures don't help a lot, they are not bothered much by those windmills and fake crows. They are still lurking around her balcony for a place to nest.

But yeah that woman does not like birds, also the parakeets, all the birds really. She dropped letters in the neighborhood last year, asking for people to stop feeding birds.

Yeh to be fair that is completely understandable. I have to clean quite a lot, I wish they wouldn't shit where they eat xD

You neighbour and I would not get on at all haha

[โ€“] Sal@mander.xyz 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Enjoy your holidays!! ๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ

[โ€“] bonjour@mander.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you! I will keep posting some pigeon stuff when i'm on the road, just not as regular. I also hope to get to see some of the ferals' wild ancestors on this holiday, but i will probably not have the right photo equipment on me.

[โ€“] Sal@mander.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago

Too bad you don't get to bring your equipment, but at least you will get to see them :D Good luck finding some wild ancestors!