Baby Pigeon Update

These photos were taken over the past few days. Baby's fine,
doing well and growing fast. It sensed D for danger everytime
I climbed a rickety table to get a closer look. I was wrong in
thinking it'd go "cheep-cheep" (an overdose of bird cartoons in
my younger days!!) because the only sound it made came from
opening and shutting its beak. Although I took great care not
to scare it, it was annoyed. I was, after all, an alien.

All puffed up as I went nearer for this shot.



I didn't see the mother near the nest when I went to the shed
but she was in the vicinity, either on the wire or on a tree,
and that was a heartening sight.

These might also turn out to be the last pictures. Look at the
feathers! Isn't she beautiful? And beginning to look like the
mother too! She even raised one feather when I went too close.
She could well be on her maiden flight in a day or two. And I
also found out that a fledgeling pigeon is called a squab. I
wasn't aware about this earlier.

I thought the beak looked too long for such a tiny body but
a few days' growth has changed all that. Here's to a fine
little bird....may you never run out of worms, nuts, leaves,
bugs and berries. And if you're a 'she' as I'd like to believe,
may you come here when it's time for you, to nest and brood...