I had washed some clothes and wanted to put them up for drying in the balcony. So, I had to deliberately shoo Pikoo and Bannu away.
I also noticed that the pigeons had been using my balcony as an excretion ground. I had to spend ten minutes just scraping off their dried out excreta that had stuck to [...]
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Pigeon Diaries Finale
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 16th century, 17th century, Alarm, Armed guards, Balcony, Banging, Bannu, Billionaire, Bird watching, Chirping calls, Clothes, Constant chirping, Coo roo-Ctoo-Coo, Dear commodity, England, Europe, Excreta, Excretion ground, Farmyard manure, Fertilizer, Gunpowder, Hit the bed, Joycreator, Magnetic field, Messenger, Migrated, Navigate, Pigeon Diaries, Pigeon houses, Pigeon poop, Pikoo, Pinkish claws, Plate of rice, Reminder, Saltpetre, Solid reason, Sparrows, Thieves, Venkatesh on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Pigeon Diaries IV: Bannu Calling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Balcony, Bannu, Charles Darwin, Clever, Eye contact, First come first serve, Joycreator, Living room, Mock fight, Pigeon Diaries, Pikoo, Samurai warriors, Sliding windows, Swordsmanship, Symbiotic relationship, Theory of Evolution, Tightrope, Topmost grill, Venkatesh, Wings on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For the past few days, a strange phenomenon is happening.
Pikoo and his family spend more time in my balcony than anywhere else. Earlier they used to fly away when I tried to get near the sliding windows of the balcony. Nowadays, no matter how close I get to the windows, the birds remain unruffled.
Several times, [...]
Pigeon Diaries II: Missing Pikoo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Balcony, Bathroom, Beak, Bird watching, Bowl of water, Clapping, Feathered friend, Final flight, Goodbye, Half openings, Hop fly hop, I Do Not Want To Fly, Jolly good, Joycreator, Messenger, Missing, Nature's call, Nest, Noah's Ark, Ornithology, Pigeon Diaries, Pikoo, Pina, Pintoo, Poking, Polu, Practise flights, Rice, Venkatesh, Visitors, Windows on February 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One night, Pikoo stayed on the balcony. I know this because when I woke up at 4 am to answer nature’s call, he was still there – huddled up in a corner. Motionless!
The very next morning, surprisingly, Pikoo was not there to be seen. Did Noah take him away in his Ark?
The evening of the [...]
Pigeon Diaries I: Meeting Pikoo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Balcony, Beak, Bird watching, Birdies, Bowl of water, Cunning crow, Feathered friend, Fluffy, Gentlehawks, I Do Not Want To Fly, Joycreator, Meeting, Messenger, Ornithology, Pet, Pigeon Diaries, Pigeon Post, Pikoo, Pina, Pintoo, Poking, Polu, Rice, Venkatesh, Visitors, War Hero on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I normally don’t go bird watching.
There are better things to watch. There are better things to waste time on. However, my ornithological tendencies get the better of me sometimes.
Usually, it happens when any feathered friend comes visiting, and stays on. Unimaginable things can happen when pigeons arrive, that too without appointment. And with pigeons, it [...]





