Willy and Winnie introduced their little Son: Angelo

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Diary as of 5/18/ – 5/22/09

5/18 This morning Willy and Winnie introduced their son to us at 7:45 in the morning.  We called him immediately Angelo -Wow! the little guy was so recognizable as Willy’s son without  any doubt – totally white head and white wing feathers – amazing. He was soooo beautiful and so incredibly graceful. Instantly I grabbed the camera and made those photos as you can see below.

5/19/ – 5/21 Angelo is coming every day now!
Jimi appears in the morning to get his seeds – his little face is all ruined – probably by his demanding baby mongers or from fighting. I really don’t know.

Winnie laid an egg – # 2 – in the new nest I made for the Willy people – I removed it. Now they are happily courting again.  She regularly seems to lay one egg only! Maybe it’s her youth??

Willy seems to have a competition with Pete. Who can coo the loudest and who will be the chief of the balcony. Ridiculous – as if there wasn’t enough place for half a dozen piggies!
Winnie and Willy are both sleeping on the balcony now! Also Erwin – mostly in the basket on the board.

5/22 Sweet Angelo was here again – he drank water from the bath tub. He was here quite a while and then flew away with uncle Joey! What fun – he such an excellent flyer….

I had Wally on my hand today – so small still – but he seems to be very healthy. He has white claws! Emma is protecting them very much. She comes into the livingroom to get her seeds – as in the past. And then walking off again to do her own business….

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Winnie and Willy sleeping in Pigeon City again!

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Diary as of 4/22/ – 4/24/09

4/22/ – 4/23 – Winnie and Willy are sleeping together on the balcony in pigeon city again – so their babies apparently are grown enough to be left alone. They appear often during the day and eat like crazy. They are probably eating for four!

Emma has left her plaster eggs. She realizes quicker and quicker when the eggs will not hatch. Now she is flirting with Pete again. So there will be some new eggs soon again. Oh my – she has become an egg-laying-machine. But what can I do?

At least I could take off the roof of the nest, loosen up all the soil and clean it up a bit for the next “breeding cycle”.

4/24 – Tonight Jimi was sleeping in pigeon city and Willy was also here but alone – without Winnie.  And little Erwin was sleeping in pigeon city as well.  Apparently Pete did not want to chase him away. Winnie apparently slept with her kiddos again  in order to keep them warm because of the very cold wind (my assumption). Even Pete and Emma were huddling together – although I have never seen them sleeping so close together! Pete normally does not like it when Emma sits so close! He is very peculiar about his sleeping place. He is the patron! But the night was so cold and windy that he apparently needed Emma to keep the warmth. Sounds so humanlike – doesn’t it?

During the days we had quite a few pigeons which apparently chose our balcony as a safe harbour against the cold and the wind. So we suddenly had quite a lot of travellers here:

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Second Egg for Schlomskaja and another new Visitor

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Diary as of 2/23/ – 3/8/09

Schlomskaja has laid her second egg today – I removed it of course. That’s why they desperately tried to build a nest here on the balcony and Pete got nearly crazy. He cannot allow a second couple to breed here. THAT IS REALLY IMPOSSIBLE!

2/23 – 2/28 nothing really special besides the new citizens: Little Obama – he is a sweet one too, completely dark but not really black with eye rings… he seems to be a companion of Angelino – they often appear together.

I am missing Socks but Stockings is still there, also Blessy. There are a couple of new ones which I cannot identify because they all have that checker morph. Very difficult to identify. Also the birds change so quickly that I don’t have the time to make out a special mark.

I am happy that Joey appears more often again. He has become quite shy but he still remembers the noise I made with the little seed pot with the red lid and comes feeding. This is a great feeling.

3/1 – 3/8 Freiburg – buried my Mom on the 4th. I am terribly sad. She loved my stories about “my” pigeons.

And here a few images from Little Obama:

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DIY in Pigeon Town…

From the

Diary as of 2/16/ – 2/20/09

Mr.  Black as all the other males have started with the DIY business again: that means that they feverishly try to collect all sorts of little stems, twigs, dry pieces from my plants. Mr. Black is so eager to demolish that old basket, that is wired to the balustrade. He uses all his strength to break out some little twigs – I wonder when he will have demolished the whole basket.

Pete is collecting dry long leaves to embellish the nest Emma is sitting in – so funny how busy he is all the time. He works like a horse and hardly gives himself a break. Forgot to shoot some photos of his activity (was soooo solc on the balcony that the camera always showed low battery…)

Schlomo and Schlomskaja try for the xth time to build something like a nest in one of my empty flowerpots as well and Pete is going bananas about this because he cannot accept another couple breeding on the balcony. IT IS ALL HIS OWN!

It is still deep winter here and so cold that I have to change the water still every couple of hours because it is completely frozen after a short time.

Nonetheless each morning I have my fun with Willy and Winnie who are always patiently waiting for me and their social contact. They are sooooo sweet and very gentle. Jimi and Hillary are not quite as “tame” – who would ever have thought this – Willy always was the nervous, sheepish one and Jimi was the one who sat on my head. Now it is somehow vice versa.

Joey does not appear every day – at least I don’t see him ever day but he is perfectly okay. He comes when he is hungry….

Only another photo of Angelino because he looks sooooo cute:

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Angelino – a new Visitor with an incredible Morph…

From the

Diary as of 2/13/ – 2/15/09

We have another new visitor: I call him Angelino – because he has an incredible morph. He is a little shy still – so it is quite difficult to get some nice photos of him. But see for yourself how cute he is:

And believe it or not – he has two-coloured claws – just like Willy – so he also is a very special tot!! But while Angelino has 2 black claws and 2 whites,  Willy has only one black and 3 white claws on his feet. Isn’t this funny?

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