Hoppy

[poliphilo]

 The tamest of our pigeons has only one leg. He is the first to the food and the last to fly away when I get too close. This morning when I scattered bird seed he was the only one to show up. We call him Hoppy.

I know he's male because I've seen him perform a slightly jerky version of the pigeon courting dance.

Look away now if you're squeamish but I know how he lost his leg because I found it about a year ago in a joint of our complicated metal bird feeder. I suppose he made to fly away and it snapped. I hope it didn't hurt too much.....

Comments

[kaishin108]

Oh dear, poor thing. Our birds won't eat out of the feeder, they are just eating seeds and things off the ground. I don't get it.

[poliphilo]

Eating from a feeder takes more work but that doesn't seem to discourage the birds round here.