2 days ago, my roomie (Kapil aka 'Kaps') observed something unusual in our balcony...there were two pigeon eggs lying in an old flowerpot. White coloured and small in size.
Needless to say, we were happy...Well, who doesn't get happy to see a new life; be it of a human, plant, bird or an animal. One pigeon(whitish in colour) was right there incubating the eggs...I guess it was the mom pigeon (though not too sure).. She initially got scared when we clicked some photographs of her but later on she got used to the camera and lights (It was like a new film star who gets used to paparazzi :) ). She sits there for the whole day while the male pigeon attends to the parenting tasks at the night.
The male pigeon got scared when I tried to click some photographs..so I didn't disturb him but rather clicked some shots from distance. Nowadays, we just sneak peek from a distance so as not to interfere in their parenting tasks!!!
P.S: I had earlier clicked this photograph when the lovebirds were dating in our balcony:
I had also uploaded the pics to my twitpic account for my twitter friends!!!
Note: Did some googling and found that female pigeon incubates at night while male pigeon attends to the eggs during daytime. Looks like I screwed up between mom and dad pigeons. :))
Monday, August 3, 2009
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2 comments:
i was a witness to this...aweesome work roomies... :D
Nice pics mohit..
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