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.
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.
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!
Pretty sure I saw a rockdove couple already. In the town where I was at I did not see any ferals, only collared doves, but 15 km off the coast into the mountains I saw two feral looking pigeons fly and land beneath a highway bridge. Very feral like spot, and might be some ferals who live next to a horse farm or something, but I’ll take those two as my first sighting of rock doves.
Congrats!! Is your trip still ongoing, or you are done for now?
Is ongoing, kinda hope to see a more cut case, but it’s not like that was the reason for my holidays, just a side quest.
I’ve passed a few villages now that had feral looking pigeons, but they behave kinda weird. I’ve hardly seen them search food in the villages and they’re very shy. The collared doves on the other hand I saw search for food in the villages. Feels a bit like bizarro land. I made up the theory that the feral looking population in at least inland Sardinia may be more of a rockdove. I am a bit confused. I guess the rockdoves lived here naturally, but I have found articles about people in Sardinia also being into breeding and racing pigeon sports.