Just posting to let you know people are still interested! 
I will have dove eggs in a bit, but the nest’s location up on the downspout makes observation a problem.
The wife took the plants over to her sister’s so she can care for them, but we’re leaving the tree pots there for the pidgees. They look like they know something’s up.
I have never posted here Siam Sam, but am and AVID reader of your pigeon community. I am a bit lost, why did your wife take the plants to her sister’s? You aren’;t MOVING are you?!?!
Thanks! 
But no, we’re not moving, just leaving for a vacation in Vietnam, and she needs her sister to take care of the plants. In the past, the sister would stop by to water them once a week or so, but she just moved far outside of Bangkok, and it’s not really convenient for her to do that anymore.
We’ll be back late in the month. Hope Henry and Maggie will still be hanging around, but we do need to thin the flock out some, as we’re afraid they may be attracting too much attention.
And we’re back! Got in Tuesday night. A sad scene of on the balcony: Empty water dish and little-enough birdshit that we figured the pigeons may have stopped coming around. The morning we left, we dumped a bunch of food out there for Henry, who was gobbling it up. He must have thought life was so good. Then we disappeared. I wonder how often he and Maggie stopped by to check before finally giving up.
On Wednesday, saw a couple of pidgees in the morning: one of the two Pretty Ones and an indeterminate gray one.
Then while cleaning the balcony in the afternoon, I may have spotted Maggie far over on the window frames, along with what looked to be Junior.
And then finally today (Thursday), around lunchtime, Henry appeared! 
He looked hopeful. Fed him and he ate it all up. I’m wondering now if it was Junior or Henry himself I saw yesterday. But Henry knows we’re back now, and we’re going to try to keep the feeding very low-key, so we don’t end up with an unmanageable flock again.
Woo-hoo! Maggie’s back. She appeared this morning (Saturday morning). Fed her, and Henry of course let her eat. They also kept “doing it” out there. The wife is convinced our balcony is the only place they have sex. At one point, Henry had his way with her while she was eating! No foreplay or anything, just started rubbing up against her a little, then tried to climb on in back. She stopped eating for a moment, hunched down a little, Henry did his thing, and she resumed eating. Didn’t even strut around a bit like she usually does post-coitus.
We fed them both a fair amount, and no other pidgees tried coming around. Then we had to leave for the day and did not return until after dark. They probably think we’ve left again!
I still miss Big and Little Pidgee, but having Henry and Maggie will be fun too. I love to read this thread!
We miss Big and Little Pidgee, too. 
Little Pidgee finally just disappeared a few months ago, never to be seen again. Could be she died of a broken heart. Seriously.
But Henry and Maggie are back in form now, settled into about the same routine before we left. I wonder how often they stopped by to check while we were away. If only they would build their nest here.
We put the flower box back out. Maggie likes perching on it, but so there’s far no interest in building a nest there. We wish they would. They’ve been going at it like teenagers again, so new eggs should be coming soon. Wonder where their nest is.
It’s back to the old routine, with the couple coming around for breakfast and lunch. They seem oddly missing in the late afternoon, though. And no big flock now. Much more manageable. Scruffy and one of the Pretty Ones still come by to clean up the couple’s leftovers.
And now for something a little different: Vietnamese pidgees! Three shots, all taken in Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, in mid-April.
This one is outside of Notre Dame Cathedral, which is off camera to the right. That’s a statue of the Virgin Mary and her baby. The pidgees are on the ground. Okay, you can’t see them very well, I know. I was going to take a closer shot when they all flew off, apparently because food had been detected some distance away.
This one and this one are clearer. The kind folks in the shophouse behind seem to have put food out for the pidgees during the lunch hour. This was in a small street near our hotel.
We saw only two or three pigeons in Hanoi, then nary a one until Ho Chi Minh City. There they were plentiful in the Dong Khoi area where we stayed, especially around Notre Dame Cathedral and the Opera House.
Meanwhile back home here in Bangkok, this time of year, the hottest, the sun comes blasting in until late morning, so we have to keep the balcony curtains closed until close to 11am. But sometimes Henry can spot us inside through the crack dividing the two curtains. Then he’ll jump up onto the metal strip that the glass door slides along – it forms a little ledge outside – and flap his wings. It’s a narrow space, and this causes his beak to tap on the glass a bit, too. Letting us know he’s out there and has seen us, and do we have anythjing for him? Very cute.
The wife said yesterday evening (Wednesday evening), Henry tried to mount Maggie four times while she was eating, but she would not cooperate. Just wanted to eat. He finally gave up and flew away. :lol:
We had a huge downpour about dawn this morning, and Maggie looked drenched when she showed up today.
Well, an interesting development. Henry showed up yesterday (Wednesday) with what looked to be his daughter!
At first glance, we thought it was Junior again, but no, this one had a different head, although a Dalmatian body. We think it’s a girl, because it has sort of a feminine face. Very young, the moustache is still not developed. Still flies and lands awkwardly. A cute and innocent face, staring out at the new world. She must have just recently started flying and followed Daddy here from wherever their nest is. Seemed to stay close to Henry, who oddly did not chase her away. What clinched that she’s his kid was Henry gave her a feeding! I missed that, but the wife saw it.
She came around once this morning, too. Sits on the window frames and stares at the wide world below. Very cute. Will try to get a photo.
Cool.
I do home some pair decides to build a nest, I miss the baby-pidgee photos!
The daughter has started coming around regularly, and Henry seems attentive. Strange, because he clearly wanted Junior to go away, and Junior looked so much like him it had to be his son. Maybe he’s partial to girls?
We thought he was cooing for Maggie yesterday, but the daughter showed up. Was he cooing for her? Or was he cooing for Maggie, and the daughter heard him and flew down? He feeds her from time to time – I still haven’t seen it myself, but the wife has – and seems generally protective when other pidgees come around.
I’m a little worried about Maggie, as I’ve not seen her for a few days, and when I did see her last, she looked a little bedraggled. Not sick, but even more disheveled than usual. Almost like she was all wet even though it had not been raining at the time. The wife thinks she saw Maggie a couple of days ago, but it’s odd she’s not been coming around.
I’m losing track - could you post a family tree?
Well, after Big Pidgee disappeared, Henry showed up last August and took over. Let Little Pidgee stay and indeed had a brief fling with her, but she disappeared herself early this year I think it was. She had taken to throwing herself at just about any ol’ male pigeon – really – and we think she may have died of a broken heart. Seriously.
Henry finally took Maggie as his mate, and when we returned from Vietnam last month, a little near-Henry lookalike appeared one day. We think it was Henry’s son, but Henry seemed to want to chase him away. Then a few days ago, another suspiciously Henry-looking pidgee appeared, and we know it’s Henry’s, because the wife has seen Henry feeding her twice now. I say “her” because she seems feminine. Just learning to fly it looks like and must have followed Dad here. Instead of chasing her away like he did with Junior, Henry actually seems protective of her when other pigeons come around. Henry’s the real owner of the balcony now, but nests somewhere else at night.
So now, the main residents are Henry and Maggie. We think he has a son named Junior, but he hasn’t been by lately. And a daughter as yet unnaned has begun stopping by. That’s about it for the main players. And I’m getting a little worried about Maggie, because I haven’t seen her for a few days, and the last time I did, she was looking a little bedraggled. Although she always did seem all ruffled. The wife thinks she may have seen her a day or to ago, but it was too brief to tell for sure.
Some regulars left while we were in Vietnam, including a cute “teenager” who was still innocent enough to dare eat out of our hand, at least for a while, until it figured it was taking too big a chance and stopped. A rival couple we call the Pretty One and Scruffy like to hang around when Henry’s not here to chase them away.
New photos! 
Henry’s daughter comes around regularly now, so we’ve named her Susie. There was supposed to a Susie last year, the sibling of poor little Bob, but that egg turned out to be unfertilized, so we decided it would be okay to name this one Susie. (Besides, that was a different parent set anyway.)
Susie eats on her own now, pecking around. Does not rely on Dad for feedings anymore; no further feedings have been seen beyond the two the wife witnessed. But this afternoon, when Dad and Susie were eating together right outside our balcony door, Susie kept doing the “squab squeal.” She was not bugging Dad to be fed, she was eating fine on her own, but the entire time she was eating, we could hear her going: “Squeal, squeal, squeal.” Just like a squab! Could that have been out of contentment, like a cat’s purr?
She has lost all of her baby fuzz but is still very young. And she seems to have decided she likes it here. Unfortunately, the Pretty One comes by and bullies her if Dad’s not around. And Henry is very attentive to his daughter. Even likes to help groom her.
Now the photos, all from today (Sunday, May 16):
Henry and Susie together on the window frames. That’s the proud father on the left. And two more here and here, still with Henry on the left and Susie on the right.
Father and daughter share a meal. Then Susie checks out Dad.
Susie gives me the eye. Then she found a perch on the little spirit house.
I’m still worried about Maggie. She seems to have disappeared. 
Hopefully, she’s just busy tending fresh eggs somewhere.
Do the pigeons notice all the fuss going on there?
Thanks! No, we live a couple of miles from the nearest hot spots, and our neighborhood remains quiet and peaceful … for now! Our pidgees haven’t noticed anything amiss.
But we can see the smoke from burning tires. I have nine photos starting from here that I took from both on top of our 36-story building and inside our 6th-floor unit.