One swallow does not make a summer. - Aristotle
Yesterday, upon arriving home I noticed that the garage door was open. I go in the house to inform Eric of the fact and he tells me the reason.
Apparently, when he opened the garage to put the bike in, a pigeon walked/scuttled/ran or did the best bird imitation thereof into the garage and refused to leave. Eric tried to scare it and shoo it but no luck. So when I got home, as resident wild bird handler, I was dispatched to the garage with an old shirt to observe and report on pigeon status. I caught mr.pidge, nothing was apparently broken, eyes seemed bright, all flight feathers intact, some mud or something on on side of a couple but nothing major. It was really windy yesterday so Eric thinks mr. pridge got tired and wanted to find shelter. We moved him to our patio and informed the cat that he would be remaining indoors for the evening, which did not set well. I think he thought we were conducting some type of bizzare withholding experiment. The pidge walked around the patio, sat in and drank from tortoise's pan of water. He seemed fine, preened himself and just was looking around. He sat for bit under the bird bath, but i think it was too windy. The tortoise was in the other sheltered area so pidge went behind our trash cans. He then decided that he should hop on the patio step and rest there, nearly driving poor kitty insane. Bird also tried to get in the house, held on to the metal ledge of the door and flapped...he's not a house bird. defiantly street pidge so that was a little strange. This morning, pidge was still behind the trash cans, i threw some bread outside. We're hoping that when the sun comes out, he will go away. We're not sure what we're going to do if he doesn't. I don't want to relocate him if he is injured or unable to fly but he can't live on the patio without becoming cat food.
Today i also go to get my temporary crown.
Apparently, when he opened the garage to put the bike in, a pigeon walked/scuttled/ran or did the best bird imitation thereof into the garage and refused to leave. Eric tried to scare it and shoo it but no luck. So when I got home, as resident wild bird handler, I was dispatched to the garage with an old shirt to observe and report on pigeon status. I caught mr.pidge, nothing was apparently broken, eyes seemed bright, all flight feathers intact, some mud or something on on side of a couple but nothing major. It was really windy yesterday so Eric thinks mr. pridge got tired and wanted to find shelter. We moved him to our patio and informed the cat that he would be remaining indoors for the evening, which did not set well. I think he thought we were conducting some type of bizzare withholding experiment. The pidge walked around the patio, sat in and drank from tortoise's pan of water. He seemed fine, preened himself and just was looking around. He sat for bit under the bird bath, but i think it was too windy. The tortoise was in the other sheltered area so pidge went behind our trash cans. He then decided that he should hop on the patio step and rest there, nearly driving poor kitty insane. Bird also tried to get in the house, held on to the metal ledge of the door and flapped...he's not a house bird. defiantly street pidge so that was a little strange. This morning, pidge was still behind the trash cans, i threw some bread outside. We're hoping that when the sun comes out, he will go away. We're not sure what we're going to do if he doesn't. I don't want to relocate him if he is injured or unable to fly but he can't live on the patio without becoming cat food.
Today i also go to get my temporary crown.