u/MarketingTemporary96

It's that time of the year again when fresh derps like this one (it was still squeaking when dad flew over) find the seed source and decide never to leave.

I've seen doves with avian pox before, and always disinfect my feeders when that happens, but this is not what they have looked like. This bird has dirty and missing feathers as well as some kind of eye injury on one side and seems to be mostly ok on the other side, almost as if something corrosive had been poured over it. Accident or predator attack? Or some kind of sickness after all?

He looks angry, I don't know what I did

Hooded crow trying a black bike in Budapest, Hungary.

OC - river Tisza, Hungary

Eurasian collared derp blending into its surroundings

Eurasian collared derp finds an amp (with sound!)

Feel free to remove it if it's too far removed from derps - but these guys are also Columbidae, so I thought I would give it a try. The wing slaps are FIERCE.

OC - Brooklyn, NY

Every year, juveniles have a short period when they don't really perceive humans as threats. I left a chair out on the balcony to dry a backpack on in the sun. This little guy claimed the shade immediately and didn't even move when I opened the door to pick up my backpack. It's currently still snoozing on the chair.

Four juveniles from two different pairs of parents started coming to our balcony feeders this week. I suspect that for one of the couples this is already a second brood this season, although the nests are somewhere else. The younglings are getting better at calculating the distance to the feeder, although there are still some crash landings. Also, one of them took a particular dislike to house sparrows and keeps swatting them away.

OC - Brooklyn, NY