Another Entry from the Pigeon Diary

Diary, 4/25/08

I was on an outing again. Together with Joey and Mommy and Daddy watched from the board. Very exciting and after that we had to take a nap again. Our parents are feeding us now every hour or so and visit us often. We are never alone for long.

During the whole day we do our exercices to train our little wings and our feet. Yes – they have grown considerably. And piece by piece we both look like real pigeons. The funny thing is that I will look like Daddy with his white wing feathers and Joey looks like Mommy with a decent and elegant pattern of grey and black on his back. Isn’t this wonderful?

Now look at us – aren’t we real cuties?

and this is Joey alone – a real beautiful pigeon-to-be:

look at these feathers – they are growing and become really beautiful:

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More Entries from the Pigeon Diary (2 weeks)

Diary, 4/23/08

Ah today was very exciting – with a little help from my landlady I did my first outing. Very short – but I was outside the nest. Oh yes – I have already realized that there is a very interesting world outside the nest – but then I started to become a little afraid so my landlady put me back into the nest and I huddled with Joey again. But it was nice!

I am training my wing muscles. Oh yes – in the meanwhile you can recognize what they are supposed to be and I am already very excited about learning to fly. I wonder how that will be…

Ah – I forgot something: I am 2 weeks old now! What a progress if I check back how I looked like when I crept out of my egg shell…

Am I not a beauty??????????????????????????????

Growing up – Diary of a Pigeon

Diary, 4/22/08

Hm – I have to think about what changed these days in our lives. Ah – yes, Mommy does not sit any more in our nest during the night – instead she sits on a board on the balcony high above us and has a watching eye on us – so that nothing bad can happen to us. Yes – she really takes good care so that we can sleep without any fear.

Last night was terrible – it was raining like crazy and our landlady had to get out of bed in the middle of the night to save from getting totally wet. The rain was so bad that it kept coming into our nest which started to become damp as we did. So the landlady moved us a bit further from the wall near to the window so that we had a lovely dry place again. Oh yes – our landlady cares for us too.

Slowly I start to look like a real bird – not like a porcupine any more. My feathers are growing and you can see where the blood goes in to the quills. My belly is not as naked as before any more – it is not covered with feathers yet but soon it will be. Oh – and my skin – it seems to be soooooo thin and when my landlady picks me up she is very very careful. It feels so delicate – she always says.

When it’s becoming dark outside we go to sleep and as I already said Mommy is watching over us. Normally our landlady comes outside each night before she goes to sleep and looks around whether everything is okay. So it happened last night that I did not recognize her and thought that it was a stranger that was creeping over the balcony – so I ruffled up my feathers – I have learned this from Daddy and clapped with my beak. But then I realized it was only my landlady and I went to sleep again. But while I was so afraid a little malheur happened – a little smell came out of my booty and my landlady laughed about this. How embarrassing !!! (But did you know that pigeons can do this just as dogs and cats?)

No photos today – but tomorrow!!

Yipeee – my Wings get Feathers…

Diary, 4/21/08

Yes folks, it’s not far away and my wings do not look any more like those spiky funny little things. But it’s itching still like crazy – hey – don’t look at me like that or…

Pigeon Babies on Video… (9-11 days)

Diary, 4/20/08

Here we are – the new superstars after 11 days:

yes – we are growing and our wings look more and more like wings…

and you can see we really love each other and …

Willy knows a lot of jokes so we can laugh a lot …