Welcome back! I hope you had a great vacation, but I have missed the pidgee news. And of course, you know I have to ask…what about Squeak and Bumpy head?
::fingers crossed::
No sign of Squeek or Bumpy Head. They seem to have moved on. As have Big Red and Pinkie. 
We do have a new one that looks like Pim, Henry’s old mate and possibly daughter. Very beautiful but may be a male.
Another photo, this time of a new one named Spotty finding an unusual perch. Spotty showed up in March I think, shortly before we left for the US. Even then, he would fly to that ceramic plaque on the wall and perch there. Looks uncomfortable, but he still likes to do it. That’s an apsara, which is actually part of Khmer (Cambodian) culture – a sort of angel – and not Thai culture, but we got it here in Bangkok. Why he decided that makes a good perch, we have no idea. No other pidgee has ever gotten it into their head to do this. And he’ll just sit there for the longest time. His left foot is clutching the apsara’s face. He really grew while we were away.
We’re certain that Spotty is related to Henry, but we don’t think it’s his son, because he hates Geri. He will bully and chase her until we intervene. I don’t think he’d act that way toward his mother. He could be Ladyboy’s son, which would make him Henry’s grandson.
The small black one standing on one leg is Spooky, an all-black pidgee who also showed up shortly before we left. We’re pretty sure Spooky is female.
King of the pidgees, surveying his domain? 
Ha! The little upstart is afraid of Henry.
Hi Sam. Love the posts and continued thread. Keep up the good work.
But I was wondering, how often do you have to go out and sweep/scrub the balcony? We had a rental condo on the 10th floor of a building and the pigeons really messed it up. We had one tenant whose mother contacted us to complain that the balcony was such a mess and what were we going to do about the pigeons? I wrote back that her son (the tenant) needed to get out there and clean it just like he was supposed to clean every other part of the condo!
I love your pictures. So, what do you do to keep the balcony so nice looking?
Thanks.
We do a thorough cleaning once a week. Takes an hour or two. Plus we do a light cleaning of the floor every one or two days. If your tenants let it go without cleaning, then that could get built up pretty quickly.
Some of the other regulars have started getting the word. I thought I saw Pinky briefly this morning, and right now her father/mate Big Red is out there.
Took a photo of a beautiful B&W whom I think belongs to Henry and Geri. He seems nervous around Geri. Will post soon.
Oh good, more pidgee pics! 
Will try to get that up by the weekend. Since our main camera died, I’ve not taken many – the wife’s camera is okay but not as good – but there have been two or three other babies that are clearly Henry and Geri’s, following them around. One is still squealing. One or two others of varying B&W patterns. There was even a bizarre-looking one that showed up maybe twice thay was mainly your average gray with large swathes of white mixed in.
Henry really is a patriarch.
Spotty has stopped perching on the apsara plaque. He’s a bit of a bully but generally cute so we tolerate him some. He likes to come here to snooze in the daytime.
Well, the past week has been bizarre, pigeonwise. First there was little Pinkie, who showed up again after initially appearing only once immediately after we returned from the US on April 30. We came home last Monday night after dark to find her on the balcony. At first we were pleased, then we remembered that these days, pidgees seem to come here at night only if they’re distressed. Sure enough, while she looked okay initially, we started noticing something wrong with her throat. Something seemed stuck in it. Something big, apparently. She kept trying to contort her neck. I put a little food down by the water dish, and she flew down and tried to eat, but it was not easy, because she could not bend her neck appropriately. She finally gave up. Tried to drink a little water too. Kept contorting her neck all the while, like she was trying to get something swallowed. We knew if we tried to catch her, she’d just fly away, so we let her be since she didn’t appear to be in immediate danger and planned to scope out the situation in the morning. She settled in on one of the green rails over by the wall. I woke up at about 2:30am and decided to take a look. Instead of sleeping, Pinkie was wide awake and stared right back at me. I think she could not pull her neck in like pigeons do to sleep; that and the general discomfort was keeping her awake is my guess. She was gone in the morning, and we’ve not seen her since. Poor little Pinkie. We’ve seen her father/mate Big Red a couple of times since, but she’s not been with him.
A couple of days later, Spooky, the black one in the photo linked to above, flew in with a broken right leg, the same leg she’s standing on in the photo. I tried to catch her, but she flopped around and flew off. Came back a couple of times over the next two days, and we saw her standing over on the window frames with her bad leg dangling down. Then she disappeared.
As if that weren’t bad enough, yesterday (Sunday) we’d no sooner finished scrubbing down the balcony than one of the newer white-with-black-speckles babies we’ve been seeing since returning came in for a landing with both legs broken! :eek: This one I was able to catch. About three months old is my guess. It (not sure if boy or girl) flopped around a bit but could not get away from me. Nothing was wrong with the wings, so I had to keep my hands cupped over those. We petted it and made soothing sounds until it calmed down. We put a little food by the water dish and set it down in front of it, and it started eating. It was almost dark by this time. I’m thinking: “What the fuck is going on with broken legs?”
The legs were indeed sort of curled up uselessly, but oddly whatever happened had taken all the feathers off the belly. All of them, almost as if it had been shaved. Just skin exposed. No blood, the skin was not broken anywhere, nothing mangled like a dog or cat may have gotten it. I started wondering if maybe it was an electric shock. There’s a new apartment building going up close by, and I wonder if any wires are exposed. Maybe Spooky’s leg wasn’t broken but rather the result of a shock. I don’t think any of her feathers were missing though, but I didn’t get that close a look at her.
Anyway, there’s a small-animal hospital connected to Chulalongkorn University’s Veterinary Sciences Faculty, and they have a 24-hour number for advice. We called them, and they said if we wanted we could bring the baby in this morning after 8am. There wasn’t anything they could tell us until they’d looked at it. (There’s actually a bird specialist there on Sunday and Wednesday mornings, but straight injuries like this can be seen anytime.) So we put some more food out and left it alone. It was alert and not in the least sick; this was clearly an injury, not a disease. During the course of the night, it kept scooting closer to the wall, I guess out of a sense of safety. Still out there this morning. I started preparing a box to smuggle it out of the building in (birds are not allowed here as pets). But then Small Pretty One, Ladyboy’s mate, showed up and attacked it! I guess for the food that was nearby. I chased him away, but then suddenly the baby, freaked out, flapped its wings and flew off. Rounded the building, and that’s the last we’ve seen of it. That was about an hour ago.
I will be home all day and will keep a watch to see if it returns. But this has been a strange week for pidgees.
Meanwhile, Henry and Geri are still coming regularly. Together these days, so they’ve stopped doing shifts on the nest again. Two other babies, one still squealing, seem to be following them. If any of the injured ones show back up, I’ll let you know.
Oh no, that’s awful about the injured pidgees. I’m half a world away and can’t do anything but hope they either heal up or have a relatively painless passing.
Thanks, Sam, for keeping us informed.
I feel now I should have put last night’s pidgee in a box, but it showed no signs of wanting to fly away. Probably I could have proceeded okay if Small Pretty One just hadn’t got into the act.
No further sign of the kid with two bad legs. 
However, the wife says Spooky showed up again today while I was away, the first time in maybe a week. Still with one useless leg but still hanging in there. The right leg is still useless, but she can flop around some with the good left one while spreading the wings out. The wife didn’t want to scare her by trying to catch her, but she did put some food out. Spooky ate some but seemed to be annoying the others with her flopping. Something finally scared her and the others, and everyone took off. But at least she’s surviving. The wife said she seemed to have some rice stuck to her beak also.
Still no further sign of Pinky.
Meanwhile, here are a few more photos, taken over the last four weeks or so.
This one shows Geri on the right with a rather marble-patterned pidgee who may belong to Henry and Geri. And another one.
This guy is certainly related to Henry somehow. Only showed up the one day.
Henry and Geri eating. A family photo. The white on the one on the left is super white, and it lets out a little squeak upon landing. Neither of these is the one with two bad legs, but that one does resemble the one at the top of this photo somewhat. And two more of Geri and Henry, here and here. Those two photos show up Geri’s clown face well.
The pigeon board seems to have gone down, which is disturbing. I found some sort of cached version and was able to sign in again. But it’s true I’ve not seen much action there for some weeks. I hope it’s just a temporary glitch, as they’ve provided useful advice in the past.
Wednesday morning here, and Big Red showed back up but still no sign of Pinky. Ladyboy seems always starving. She eats more than any other pidgee we feed. She just can’t seem to get enough and hangs around here all day.
Breaking News: The baby with two bad legs has just shown up. And it’s hungry. We’re feeding it now and guarding it against others. It seems to have regained some use of its legs. Well, one leg, the left one. Not much, just a very little, to where it looks like its doing those exercises we used to do in gym class – what were those, frog marches? Right now its eating nonstop. We’ll monitor and decide what to do once it’s full.
When it finished the one pile we poured out for it, I went to pour some more, and it flew away. I was able to get a look at its legs. The right one is definitely bent at an odd angle. But it seemed to be able to use both. It came back a few moments later and is eating again now. Looks like it’s learned to use its wings to help it “crawl.” Must be hell finding food like this though.
With a regular food supply at your place the poor thing may make it. What about drinking? Is it taking water that you have seen?
Good Lord! I’ve been working a lot, and my mailbox has been overtaken by every scammer in the world, so I had to work through over 300 emails to find all this.
All I can say is…GAH! And how horrible for you, your wife and the pidgees! Good wishes heading your way from Colorado!
We’ve not seen it take water, but depending on where it’s staying, that may not be a problem. It’s been raining quite a bit lately. Once today I thought I saw it coming from the direction of the mansion next door to our condo building. Hopefully it’s living somewhere there, as the grounds are lush and maybe it can be safe. Took us by surprise to see it again after five days.
Poor little thing is only about three months old by my estimate. Flew off finally after getting frightened by something, but it ate a lot. Henry and Geri came along, and Henry seemed to sense something was up. He did not appear to like what was going on at all and finally left.