A Beauty on our Balcony

Since a couple of weeks we have a regular new visitor on our balcony, a young lady with an incredibly plumage. I wanted to share a few photos. We called her "Copper". You cannot imagine how these feathers glow in the sun while I had photographed her on a dull day...

She is stunning, Petra.
With the sun shining down, I'll bet she's a real sight to behold while in flight.
She sure is a plump little pijjie!! Has she been dining at your place?

We had an adult, as well as a youngster, with incredible copper coloring (or at least that's what I called it). The adult is featured in my slide show.

Oh Petra...what a stunning bird. Beauty is a really good name for her.

Fancyfeathers wrote:

She sure is a plump little pijjie!! Has she been dining at your place?

Oh yes, Cindy, she's definitely "dining" at our place - I take care that the foodie pots are well filled. Can you imagine that they all gobbled 25 kg seeds in 2 1/2 months? I could not believe this myself and we call only 9 pijjies "our own" i.e. the ones which really belong to "our" family - all the others are visitors... - this also means a lot of I have to clean off the balcony each day
but as you know - I love our feathered friends...

Matilda wrote:

Oh Petra...what a stunning bird. Beauty is a really good name for her.

Charis - her name is Copper - but maybe we should have called her Beauty - although we have quite a few very pretty birds here. I try to catch them on photo whenever I get a good shot as well when I am outdoors, cycling around the neighbourhood with the camera.
Those results are on my other blog In Terms of Colour with hundreds of blossoms photos and other colour related objects, scenes....

WOW What a gorgeous bird!!! Petra you must be a professional photographer. You take incredible pictures!

I think Copper is a great name, there will be many more pigeons that qualify for the name Beauty, but not that many Coppers. Copper is really striking and so are your photos!

I wonder where she came from and what genetic mix produced her colours?

Cynthia

Jenaka wrote:

WOW What a gorgeous bird!!! Petra you must be a professional photographer. You take incredible pictures!

Thank you for this lovely compliment, Jen, but I am not! But I am using my little camera very often and try my best....

Cynthia wrote:

I think Copper is a great name, there will be many more pigeons that qualify for the name Beauty, but not that many Coppers. Copper is really striking and so are your photos!

I wonder where she came from and what genetic mix produced her colours?

Cynthia

That's a very interesting question I have asked myself already. If I find some time I will check the site of Frank Mosca - Pigeon Genetics again - maybe I'll find the answer there. Do you happen to know this website?

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That's a very interesting question I have asked myself already. If I find some time I will check the site of Frank Mosca - Pigeon Genetics again - maybe I'll find the answer there. Do you happen to know this website?

No, I don't know it. I just followed your link and looked up recessive red as it is a term I recognise, but I found the explanation difficult to understand because my ignorance of the subject is profound. I would like to know more, to be able to look at our pigeons and know what their parents wer likely to have been.

I like Copper as well!!
I also agree that your photos are absolutely stunning.

Yeah - it is quite complicated and one needs time to read into this - but I find it very interesting! :study: