Bird Love

So about a month ago, we noticed a couple of pigeons seemed to be nesting out on our balcony. They went through several weeks of taking turns sitting on the egg while the other one left for food, keeping watch over the egg to make sure no one harmed it, etc. Then one day the little egg hatched a little birdling.

We were able to watch the birdling grow up, staying in the nest at all times while its parents were out gathering food, flying around, and who knows what else.

I knew one day the little birdling would leave the nest. It got huge! After about 30 days I looked out the window and the little bird was gone! I thought he might come back to rest that night, but we never saw him again. That was about 5 days ago.

We have new visitors. I have decided to keep track of their progress, daily, by taking photos of them during the day. Today I noticed two birds out there kind of nesting, so I took a photo of them, shown below. I think the grey bird is the female, and the other one is the male. The female is considerably smaller. I also took a photo of the nest after they left--they must have just gone out for a date or something. :)

I will continue to show the progress every day until the little birdling has flown the coop!