r/BalconyBabies

At first I thought she made a good choice of nesting place but the eggs keep rolling under the fake ivy lol
Such a silly bird.

Baby pigeons (newly hatched) and Mama were being attacked by large male pigeon outside my apartment, so I built a safe nest box for them and hoping they’ll be okay!

As I said above, yesterday I noticed some baby pigeons (newly hatched and still sitting in their egg shells) and Mama pigeon were being attacked by large male pigeon outside my apartment (there is a balcony outside the stair area), so I built a safe nest box for them and hoping they’ll be okay!

I’ve put a small container in the box that I filled with mixed bird food so Mum can eat without having to leave the babies, and left water as well outside the box. After putting the box there, I waited for mum to find the babies. She has been there all day now and seems very comfortable.

I know the nest area is dirty, but it’s in a hard to get to spot and I couldn’t clean it safely without disturbing the babies. Usually, I wouldn’t have access to the ledge anyway and it’s 4 storeys up so I also have to be careful with my own safety. It was just lucky there is maintenance work going on so I could sneakily access the ledge.

I probably won’t be able to access the babies or box again, as I don’t want to disturb them but if there is anything I can give the Mama through the tiny gap to help or anything else, please give me any advice. Thank you!

The babies did some preening yesterday and this morning their wings look amazing! And they’re the colors I thought, so now the dark one is officially Gwenda and the light one Mair. Mair is the chill one and Gwenda is spicy. But both enjoy head scritches. The Google says they won’t start trying to fly for at least another 2 weeks and I hope that’s true because once that happens I don’t think I’ll be able to get leg bands on them (leg bands have shipped but may still take a while).

We also got two new guests yesterday! I got pictures of the one with the white tail but not of the one with white mottling all over. I hope they both come back.

Basically, my parents had two wild pigeons (shown in the second image) show up in their backyard separately, about a year apart. It turned out they were opposite genders (the female is on the left and the male is on the right), and the birds in the first image are their offspring (Dark and Lighter ones are five months old, while the other Brownish one is two months old). They have all turned out so different, yet so eye-catching. I assume it is expected for the offspring to look so different since the parents look so different from each other but yeah just wondering what types of pigeons they are?

I posted a little while ago about the Pigeon couple who I lost a property dispute with on our balcony and then befriended, Petra & Lionel, well here’s an update!

About 12 days ago, I saw a lot of commotion with Petra in the bucket moving around, and later that day, a discarded eggshell outside the ashtray bucket they’ve decided to call home. The next evening I got my first glimpse of the tiny yellow blob - I still wasn’t sure there were actually two chicks because I only ever saw one egg lol - and I’ve been getting more and more frequent glimpses as the parents spend less and less time at the nest as they’ve gotten older (they were brooding pretty solidly until about 3 days ago, now it’s more like they pop back for twenty minutes every now and then to feed them).

So yeah, meet Karly & Olivia! Olivia is starting to look like a full bird with lots of feathers even at less than two weeks old, Karly is getting there but she’s taking a bit of time to feather bless her. Both pigeons can stand up and have started to stretch their wings. Excited to see them grow up further!

I’m going to cross post this so sorry if you see it repeatedly!! All my pigeon presents arrived, so they now have a dedicated waterer that holds way more water than the dog bowl, plus a new seed mix, and little dishes so hopefully more can eat at once. I got rid of the stupid crap that apparently people throw at the birds which lands on my porch (plastic hangers are popular for no apparent reason). I also put out a little grit to see if Mama Brumby wants any. And I figured out how the babies like to be pet!! I am not a Bird Person but I do binge watch bird videos, and today I tried the super gentle ruffling action on their teensy heads. And they immediately settled and made themselves comfy (they’re always on alert when I first come out cause the adults all leave 😞). I adore them. I wish they wouldn’t grow up so fast though 🥺

EDIT: It looked like the baby on the ground was trying to get back up onto the chair. I approached it really gently and slowly and picked it up with a tshirt and placed it back into the nest and chair. I'll keep a close eye on them.

Hi, this is my first time posting and I apologise if this might not be the correct flair. I had a pigeon lay two eggs over a month or so ago and they've hatched and grown older now. They'd usually stay in the nest on the chair on the right but today one or them either flew/jumped or fell off of it. I've only lived here a year and the previous tenants have a netting at the bottom of the balcony and the one that had come out of the nest was trying to fly but couldn't because of the railing in the way. It's sitting on the ground now beneath my balcony table and I'm wondering what I should do?

I tried moving the chair on the left back a tiny bit to see if it had enough room to try flying up onto it. I haven't stepped foot on the balcony since the mother lay the eggs because I wanted to give them space. I'm just a bit worried it might be stuck on the ground. The parents usually come every few few hours or so to feed them. Should I wait until then or possibly intervene? I have a tshirt prepared to try and gently pick them up from the floor but I'm waiting to see what happens first. Any help is appreciated, I'm really new to this.

I’m verklempt over the appearance of adult-y feathers 😭 And their wee faces. I’ve been talking to them whenever I go out to fill the seed bowl. Fingers crossed they are my future friends.

He survived a bad thunderstorm which I posted about here earlier and has been surviving since. He’s as active as ever, but it doesn’t seem like he’s growing? His parents still feed him and everything and he poops, but his body is still so tiny. I’m thinking I might have to call a rehab for this lil guy if he doesn’t grow.

Has anyone seen this before?

Would love to hear thoughts

My porch has become a pigeon nursery and it’s so cool to know other people have become fascinated by their balcony babies too!! The pigeon couple on my porch are raising their second pair of babies, and I’m just in love with them. Also slightly paranoid—the parents were gone for a very long time on Sunday, and I ended up calling a wildlife emergency number terrified they’d abandoned the babies (who were under a week old). They’ve decided that my dog’s potty spot (wood chips in a kiddie pool) is the ideal place for raising children, which is kind of gross given that it’s a potty spot, but it’s handy also. If I check on the chicks and they’re in direct sun without a parent, I can easily rotate the pool to get them in the shade. The two babies from the first “litter” (I’m a dog person, I don’t know what word to use) come by pretty much every day to hang out and eat out of the seed bowl. Sometimes they bring their friends as well; so far (knock wood) the friends have not caused any issues with the parents or the wee babies. Somebody laid two eggs the other night and just left them on the bare cement of the porch; I moved them into the kiddie pool just in case. Brumby (mama/night shift pigeon) was definitely thinking about sitting on them for a bit, but then lost interest and sat on the babies again.

One of the most fun bits is that like clockwork, when I get up to feed my dogs, I can peek through the blinds and the chicks are always getting breakfast too. The adults are still super wary of me and fly away any time I come out briefly to refill them on seeds or to rotate the pool, so I’ve been talking to the babies anytime I’m out there. Today one of them was definitely looking me over, and she just looked calmly interested. (I know it’s fifty fifty and she could be a male but since I’m not planning to DNA test them, I gave the first two boy names and these two girl names. My friend insisted even though I can’t really tell anyone apart except the parents. I don’t make the rules.) I really hope I can make friends with them. I have to be really sneaky for now about watching them LOL. If they see me and they’re not busy eating or feeding, they usually leave.

Here are some photos of the new babies. They are 9 and 7 days old today! I can’t believe how fast they grow.

These 2 had a nest on my balcony, and it was such a joy for me (and my cat) to watch them everyday!

They successfully fledged 1 chick, and then had 2 more before I could remove their nest- I was moving soon and didn’t want them to have more with me not being sure of living there long enough for them to fledge.

With 1 week to move out date, I had to find a new home for the babies- building management indicated they would completely clear the balcony after I moved out.

Found a wonderful man nearby who rescues and raises pigeons- and just in the nick of time as one of the babies was scalped by another bird the day I was bringing them in. He’s told me he will nurse it and raise it as a pet if needed (though I did feel terrible kidnapping and making these guys homeless all in one day!)

Their nest was made completely of plastic zip ties and VERY messy- not many people would have put up with them on their balcony but I loved watching them and was sad to part ways. Photo was right before handing the keys in. Latest update on their 2 chicks is that they’re doing well!

just saw that a stray pigeon appeard on my balcony next to my babies nest it doesn't seem to be aggressive doesn't attack them and the babies dont seem to be scared of him does anyone know what is he doing here

10 months ago I posted about my dad's first balcony babies that were born in a hanging plant. Here is the current day improvement. He loves his feathered grandchildren!

This morning I discovered our shed pigeons' nest a mess in front of the shed. I suspected that our neighbors did it because they have a hatred of our feathered friends. I checked the Blink camera and luckily you can see where the nest ended up and the eggs are visible on the ground. I back tracked a few hours until one egg appeared, but no humans around. Later another egg appeared on the ground. So the pigeons destroyed their own nest. They sat on it for a while. And there was something in the eggs, but I couldn't and didn't want to look.

They kind of done this before, but it was before they laid eggs. It was like they didn't like the construction or something. They make great nest too, I want to take a picture of their impressive nests but I keep forgetting.