Ok, I ask out of selfish reasons. A pigeon has laid eggs on my balcony. As an aside, the lazy-ass bird didn’t even build a nest, merely deposited the eggs in an unused flower pot on the floor of the rather small balcony.
For now, she is tolerating me going out on the balcony; she quickly flies away when I go out there and keeps an eye on me from nearby. But, here’s the important part: she doesn’t dive bomb me. As long as she doesn’t, we can get along.
My question is, once those eggs hatch, is she going to start dive bombing me when I go out on my balcony? I’m not willing to lose the use of my balcony while those rats with wings develop, so if momma rat is not willing to share the balcony with me, her little rat eggs are going into a rat egg omelette.
I doubt she will attack you. Perhaps a greater problem will be the accumulation of pigeon droppings once the nestilings hatch out. I sometimes have pigeons nesting on my balconies here, and I can attest they can get a bit smelly.
Speaking personally, unless you really really love pigeons, I would toss the eggs, get rid of the flower pot, and try to block off any potential nesting spots on the balcony. Domestic pigeons don’t typically make nests. The female will look for another place to nest, and will probably lay another clutch of eggs, so there will be little harm done.
Right now I’m trying to figure out the best way to block off a favortite nesting spot on the balcony next to my living room. A male is displaying there again, and I need to make the site a bit less attractive.
Pigeon babies are fun. I just hosted one over the last few weeks. Let it hatch and you can see for yourself why you never see baby pigeons. They fledge very, very quickly. Even if you did have the most aggressive pigeon mom on Earth, the kid will be flying in a week or so.
It is a remarkable little science project you got going.
We have a dove sitting on some eggs in an abandoned Blue Jay nest (in which we watched 3 baby Jays hatch last spring) just outside our dining room window. Can’t wait to see the hatchlings!
I do have to warn you, baby birds are loud and incessantly squawking. Never seen a baby pigeon, but some years ago we lived in this really shabby apartment, and somehow a bird made a nest in the wall, just under our bedroom window. As in right over our heads. That was a horrible summer, let me tell you. Soon as those birds were out of the nest we filled the hole up at our own expense.
I may not have the quote exactly correct (I couldn’t find it on Google) but I know he said something along those lines in Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons.
