Comments on: Wordless Wednesday — Rock Pigeon

By: scratchbags

scratchbags — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:38:58 +0000

I just dropped to check how the images are looking with captions. You have actually left me wordless. Beautiful pictures.:)

By: Quilly

Quilly — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:34:25 +0000

Indrani — if a pigeon should so bless you, I have no doubt your shots would be even lovlier than mine.

David — no need to apologize for puns here. OC always leaves his laying about for me to trip over.

Carolyn — only one pigeon, and my camera is silver, so you folk with the black ones are still on the hot list.

OC — you take the cake!

By: oceallaigh

oceallaigh — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:43:55 +0000

Of course the bird was tame. It's a rock pigeon, correct? It left the concert a bit beat up, and, naturally, totally stoned. Good thing the cardinal didn't show up, it might have felt compelled to deliver a sermon.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:34:39 +0000

Ooops. I said pigeons, but I guess it was just one pigeon. The last photo looks like a different bird, but it’s all the same one right?

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:33:08 +0000

Sigh. You said Lanai. Oh… how I’d love to be on a Lanai right now.

Excellent shots of the pigeons too. And I’m happy to read in your comments that the injured bird was better-ish when he left your Lanai. Lucky he found a safe friend in you. Maybe after this, word will get out in the bird world that us crazy humans with those silly black clicking camera-things attached to our faces are too busy snapping away to ever hurt them. Little do the birds know that we’re far too obsessed with catching the perfect shot to ever want to catch them!

(Punny David. Gotta love him!)

By: david mcmahon

david mcmahon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:47:55 +0000

So it was a wing-wing situation? Sorry – I couldn’t resist that, Quilly!

By: frozen moments

frozen moments — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:29:21 +0000

Great Shots! I hope some day a pigeon(not an injured one) will come so close to me for taking such lovely shots.
Indrani.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:15:42 +0000

Cath — when I went out on the lanai, it walked right up to me. If I were braver, I probably could have touched it. And, I thought it had had enough trauma for one day. I only used the telephoto lens on the sleeping pigeon photo, all the rest were framed with the camera. The pigeon was that tame and well-behaved (or that much in shock after having its toe severed).

By: Crazycath

Crazycath — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:54:30 +0000

Awesome shots Quilly! Absolutely awesome. How on earth did you get that close? Or was it a very good quality zoom? Love it.

You caught me out on mine getting my days mixed up. Responded on mine but suffice to say I now know it is Wednesday today. (Just – for me. Another 6 minutes to Thursday!)

By: hollydolly

hollydolly — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:36:30 +0000

is he any cousin of the rock lobster? cuz that b52 song is so stuck in my head now.

By: Dr. John

Dr. John — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:24:57 +0000

I used to raise pigeons so I loved the pictures. I had some really nice Tumblers they would fly as high as they could and then tumble toward the ground pulling out always just in time.

By: TorAa Mirror

TorAa Mirror — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:06:58 +0000

Exceptional photos. I’m impressed.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:40:50 +0000

UWS — when the bird arrived it was still bleeding. What you see on it’s foot is bits of feathers. It stayed on my lanai for about 4 hours, cleaning it’s foot and sleeping. When it left, the foot was no longer bleeding, had nothing stuck to it, and the end of the middle toe (claw knuckle) was missing.

By: UWS

UWS — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:32:46 +0000

Great photos. The poor bird appears to have some kind of string, fishing line, or such, constricting her toe(s). Can you entice her inside, catch her, and get her to a wildlife rehabber (see http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contactA.htm#hi) or, if you are able, take some seam rippers and carefully remove the string?

By: Quilly

Quilly — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:20:11 +0000

Gattina — I was standing beside him.

Melli — gotta have the tropical view or it’s just not the same.

Doug — no, mostly they’re scruffy and disreputable looking, kind of like stray dawgs.

Minkydo! Hi! Good to see you again. Have you posted? Why didn’t my feed reader say so?

Medic — that’s funny, I catch it in my writing, but it slips into my vocabulary all the time!

Gawpo — Brooke called me with her exciting news (three times, I think). The bird would speak Hawaiian pigeon of course! Where do you think we learned it? OC says the bird may have hurt itself, but it is more likely that it’s contracted Avian Malaria which causes infections and deformities in bird feet. (Not transferable to humans.)

Reba — your mom is a pretty soft touch, ay?

Jules — doesn’t he though? He was very sweet and friendly and stayed about 4 hours in my company.

Polona — junk left out, and junk food, and rampant disease … Avian Malaria is very wide spread here.

Brian — he did seem to like the attention.

Nea — I think he was!

Jientje — thank you. He is gorgeous and he was very friendly, too.