Hey! You’ve been at this for over two years! You started the thread May 12, 2008. That has to be some sort of record.
Sad that the original couple is no longer with us. 
The wife is still seeing Henry feed Susie, so she’s at the intermediate stage where she can eat on her own or get a feeding from Dad. I wonder where her sibling is, assuming she has one.
I am fearing the worst for poor Maggie.
You be careful, Sam and Mrs. Sam! I didn’t realize you were so near the thick of things there. Stay well away! Maybe your pigeons will stay close to home, too. I hope so. Take care!
I wonder if Henry and Susie might become a couple?
I posted my own photos of this morning’s huge conflagration that finally prompted the army to move in and smash through the barricades of the red-shirt filth. See them here. Click on individual photos to enlarge. Taken from our 6th-floor bedroom window and on top of our 36-story building.
It could very well happen. Someone on one of the pigeon boards has a male pigeon who routinely mates with both his mate and their daughter. :eek:
Still no sign of poor Maggie, but Henry and susie always seem to be together. Daddy’s little girl.
In Little Pidgee’s last couple of batches, only one egg was fertilized. Now it seems Maggie may have been sick. I wonder if there’s a correlation between pigeon age/health and unfertilized eggs.
Susie took a little bath yesterday morning (Thursday morning). 
Could not take a photo, because we could see it only through the crack in the closed curtains, and moving them would have disturbed her.
Henry actually pecked at her in the afternoon while they were eating, so maybe he feels it’s time for her to strike out on her own. The wife poured a separate little pile for her, and he was okay with her eating that.
Odd, but there’s another pigeon that has showed up who acts like Maggie but does not really look like Maggie. Looks like her a little but not exactly. Head and neck area are lighter, for example, and feathers not as kerfuffled as Maggie’s usually are. Seems to know us and keeps begging hard for food. And Henry is okay with her being here, although they haven’t gotten frisky. Surely Maggie could not have changed appearance? 
Hi Sam! Nice to catch up on the newest pidgees and their antics. Thanks for keeping this post going all this time! Best to you and Mrs. Sam!
Thanks! Henry is definitely chasing Susie away more now, but she keeps hanging around for some food. She’s so cute we have to let her be one of the “in” crowd and give her a snack.
Several new gray pidgees have started stopping by, but we think we’ve determined Maggie is definitely one of them. She doesn’t seem as kerfuffled as before but does seem to know us. And Henry is okay with her, the few times that he’s here now at the same time. However, it’s just that he doesn’t chase her away while they’re eating; there are no amorous activities at the moment. But we’re pretty sure it’s her. Some people on one of the pigeon boards have pointed out it is possible for pigeons to change their appearance somewhat after molting.
Susie is proving pretty feisty. She’ll fight the other pidgees, even the bigger ones. Even has nipped at Henry and Maggie, her presumed mother.
We’re trying not to feed the other pidgees, not wanting to attract attention, but it’s tough keeping it among a certain select few.
It is definitely Maggie, and she and Henry have begun getting frisky again. Much kissing, but we’ve not seen the actual deed again yet.
But there’s some strange new behavior on the part of Henry. Yesterday (Sunday), he took to sitting inside the flower box. Not just sitting, but keeping his head down and tail up, remaining motionless. Maggie was perched on the edge. It was almost like when Little Pidgee was getting ready to lay eggs. But Henry is male! This went on for quite a while, then he left. Did not seem ill at all. Even fought with some other pidgees trying to come here. And there is zero nest-building activity, none at all.
Then this morning, I knew Henry was out there, because I heard him cooing, like he does when he’s calling Maggie. The curtain was closed, because the sun was still coming through. When I opened it to feed him, there he was back in the box, head down, tail up, Maggie perched on the edge! They both left the box to come and eat. What gives? They’re both gone now.
Have not seen Susie yet today, but she still tends to follow Mom and Dad despite their rebuffs. Junior’s been coming around more, still very timid.
In another little avian story, I’ve been entertained by a fledgling robin and its mom/dad the last four or five days. We get wind storms this time of year so it’s not that uncommon to find young birds blown out of the nest a bit early, and I think that’s what happened this time. Anyway, I first saw the fledgling in the backyard by itself, but it was pretty large, as fledglings often are so I left it alone. The next morning I saw it in the front yard following its parent around squealing to be fed, and its parent was dutifully doing so.
I think mom is a little sick of feeding Jr. though, and Jr. can fly just fine. Well, it can easily fly to the top of a fence or a lower tree branch, and I think it can make it up to the roof, but it has no intention of leaving mom and the free feed bag.
Yesterday mom/dad was teaching it to eat worms I guess, and she got this really nice, long fat one. She’s give it to Jr. and he’s slurp it down, then she’d reach in and yank the whole thing out, all five inches of it. Then she’d give it to him again, he’d slurp it down and she’d yank the whole thing out again. This went on seven or eight times until Jr. finally swallowed and kept it down.
They’re in the backyard this morning, and Jr’s still following mom around, squeaking at mom for food, even though I think he’s getting pretty good at getting his own if he wants. I’ll turn the sprinklers on in a minute, which the robins seem to really enjoy. It’s a free bath, and brings lots of worms to the surface.
pictures!!! :d:d
Preferably of the robins playing in the sprinklers.
I have a new shot or two of Henry, Maggie and Susie eating together. A now-rare moment when one or other of the parents is not chasing little Susie away. Junior still coming around too; his white head and patch of black on his throat gives him the look of a bald man with a beard.
My yard is absolutely full of fledglings right now; hummingbirds, towhees, house and purple finches, dozens and dozens of pine siskins, grosbeaks, and robins.
The feeders are right outside my windows and the babies actually are a bit annoying, especially the towhee. It just peeps and peeps endlessly.
I know, I really wished I’d had a video camera when they were playing swallow the worm. It was funny how the whole worm was going in, then coming back out, all intact.
The wife and I are becoming fascinated with the different logistics of bird species. We recently saw a nature video in a local fish-and-chips shop – yes, fish and chips in Bangkok – that showed ducklings jump down and follow Mom to a lake at the age of 24 hours.
Yesterday (Friday), a new Henry-looking young pidgee showed up. Definitely not Susie, but we thought at first it was Junior, who still comes around. But the throat markings were completely different. Still with a distinctive Dalmatian look, so this was a new Henry offspring. Henry and Maggie both attacked it! And viciously. Bounced the kid right out of here. Haven’t seen it again. Must be theirs, but they told it in no uncertain terms to get out of Dodge.
Yesterday (Sunday), we saw yet another Henry-looking young pidgee stop by, the fourth one now in the last two or three months, but this one still had a lot of yellow baby fuzz sticking out of the top of its head. Otherwise, all Dalmatian-looking.
Stopped by when the parents were gone so was not chased away. Hasn’t been back. Must be from the most recent batch.
We think there are new eggs somewhere. Maggie rarely stops by now, and we think that means she’s busy with that. But why she wouldn’t stop by during Henry’s shift on the eggs we don’t know. She stopped by yesterday (Friday) for the first time in a while. Henry keeps coming by all the time. Before Maggie stopped coming by regulalry again, they were doing it regularly.
Most mornings, Susie and a normal gray pidgee will be waiting on the window frames, and when I stick my head out the door, they’ll both come flying over to the rail. We think the gray one must be Susie’s sibling despite being completely non-Henry-looking. Must just take after Maggie. There’s no apparent romantic involvement whatsoever, but they’re always together. And when they eat, they shove sideways against each other, like they’re trying to push each other out of the way, but it’s not a fight.
But most of Henry’s children have that Dalmation look. There’s no use his denying paternity. A new one just started coming by in the past week. May be the one we saw before with baby fuzz on the head, but there’s no fuzz now. Seems a bit awkward. And this is cute: The first time we saw her, she walked ever so cautiously up to the dish of water we keep out there, gave it a tentative peck and then FREAKED OUT. Flew straight up in a panic. She obviously expected that to be a solid surface, and when her beak penetrated the water, her “danger” alert must have gone off big time. We think that may have been her first encounter with water. She did return after a while and take a couple of sips. We’ve named her Karen, because she has a tubelike pattern on the back of her neck that makes her resemble the long-necked Kayan people of Burma. There are some in Thailand, in Mae Hong Son province bordering Burma, and they are part of the Karen group. Although it’s actually pronounced Ka-REN (and the Thais say Ga-Riang), we’re using the normal Western pronunciation of Karen. Pretty sure she’s female, as she seems feminine.
And Henry has taken even more to jumping up on the little ledge the sliding glass door runs along on and pressing up against the window to get our attention for food. Smart guy! 
Will try to post new pics soon, maybe this weekend. Always seems to take forever for me to do that.