The Look of little Lovers

Thought I share some new pics from our balcony pjjies, Pina and Peppi, the ones who have been nearly sculpted some time ago - when they were still babies - by another pigeon. Or should I rather say "cardbox pijjies" because they sleep in this box each evening in our livingroom. I wonder how long still they will come deliberately after flying around the whole day outside - I hope for a long time still




And here they are how they often look like and each time my heart is melting away....
The one with the little feather sticking out is Pina, who had been injured badly at the attack.

Photos look almost ... un-real in their beauty.
I checked twice if this is not some of your new paintings Petra.

Beautiful pictures.

I suspect they will be sleeping in your livingroom for a long time to come, if you allow them to.

fantastic detail
and some wonderful moments captured
i too hope they bless you with their presence for a long time

As always, your photos are first class, Petra.
This new set is absolutely wonderful.

Thank you so much for sharing them with us.

You manage to capture the most beautiful moments!

Are they mates or is this sibling love? or both?

Some years ago a friend brought me a sick squeaker from a feral flock. A few days later she brought another. As they were from the same flock and had the same symptoms I quarantined them together and as soon as they saw each other they ran towards each other and started preening each other. I had heard before that nest siblings shared a deep affection for each other but had never witnessed it before.

Cynthia wrote:

You manage to capture the most beautiful moments!

Are they mates or is this sibling love? or both?

Some years ago a friend brought me a sick squeaker from a feral flock. A few days later she brought another. As they were from the same flock and had the same symptoms I quarantined them together and as soon as they saw each other they ran towards each other and started preening each other.

I had heard before that nest siblings shared a deep affection for each other but had never witnessed it before.

How is that!

Although Dolly and Dumpling were never separated and reunited, they also never left each others side.
Wherever Dolly went, Dumpling followed. They have become sibling/love mates.

They are brother and sister.
In the evening Pina is always the first to come in - and in most cases it takes another hour until Peppi thinks he is ready to come home. And then the greeting starts: it sometimes takes several minutes until they finish their duet. They then disappear into the cardbox and you can hear a lot of rumbling and scratching, and some more singing. It's very funny.

In the morning when they get up and want to go outside they both fly from the closet to the ground and loiter in front of the balcony door to tell me that they want to get out. Then I open the door, they fly to the balustrade to have a short check who is there and how the weather is like and then they come in again to have their breakfast. Well - they need some petrol for their dayflights - right?

Cute!
I think they are no longer balcony Pigeons but rather house Pigeons.

Time to ammend your blog.

Charis - it does not matter - no-one will believe me this anyway...

They are so sweet, and they have a great life - better than a feral pidge would even dream of

pigeonwriter wrote:

Charis - it does not matter - no-one will believe me this anyway...

Oh Petra...you are...

Capuccino wrote:

They are so sweet, and they have a great life - better than a feral pidge would even dream of

John - I think they already have a certain reputation in the pigeon world being a bit snooty towards all the others. Although they have a connection to the small local flock here and fly around with them, they also have an exceptional position when they arrive on the balcony with their friends - being the only ones who are allowed to enter the livingroom - I can very well see the envious views of the others who try to sneek in with them - oh my