A co-worker and I have had a pigeon nest right outside our office window for a few weeks now. The pigeon pair has been sitting on 2 eggs that by our calculation would have been due to hatch as early as this weekend. We setup a webcam on Friday to record the nest in case they started hatching over the weekend.
Saturday afternoon, instead of hatching, we caught this:
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Brian
The nest was raided....
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Darn shame, but I guess crows gotta eat too.
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Re: The nest was raided....
Unbelievable...
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That's incredible!
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It was very disappointing for us and to those who have been following them. We've been streaming it live for about a week now, but only started recording the stream this weekend.
I did notice that if you look at the egg the bird punctures and eats out of, it looks like there's still a yolk in there instead of a baby bird. I'm thinking that for some reason the egg either wasn't fertilized or didn't develop.
Brian
I did notice that if you look at the egg the bird punctures and eats out of, it looks like there's still a yolk in there instead of a baby bird. I'm thinking that for some reason the egg either wasn't fertilized or didn't develop.
Brian
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I have seen a crow with a baby bird, they are quite the opportunists! that Pidgeon will likely come back and lay 2 more eggs and start sitting again, they can be persistant nesters.
While sad, cool catch on video. - To anthromorphise, the crow looked like he knew he was being watched!
While sad, cool catch on video. - To anthromorphise, the crow looked like he knew he was being watched!
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Too bad that pigeon wasn't a carrier! 
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Pigeons are just flying rats. JMO. 
I am sorry that your camera did not catch a happier moment.
I am sorry that your camera did not catch a happier moment.
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Yeah, I would have said that too until they nested outside our windowtexasag93 wrote:Pigeons are just flying rats. JMO.
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Some people I know have been watching a long term webcam out of Iowa
that features bald eagles and their babies. I don't know the web addy,
but it's out there somewhere.
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that features bald eagles and their babies. I don't know the web addy,
but it's out there somewhere.
SIA
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Nature can be pretty fascinating sometimes.
My wife and I took a trip to Hawaii a few years ago and went to the Honolulu Zoo one day. While we were visiting the hyenas, a local pigeon like bird land in a hyena pen and started cleaning itself, completely oblivious as to where it was. I have never seen a critter eat another so fast as this hyena did. It was actually impressive.
My wife and I took a trip to Hawaii a few years ago and went to the Honolulu Zoo one day. While we were visiting the hyenas, a local pigeon like bird land in a hyena pen and started cleaning itself, completely oblivious as to where it was. I have never seen a critter eat another so fast as this hyena did. It was actually impressive.
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Yesterday when I got home qur neighbor was in the front yard. She asked me to look at a baby bird on the ground and see if it was a duck or other type of bird. It was small enough that I could not tell so I was going to take a pic and send to a freind of ours that is a bird enthusist. While taking the picture, a blue jay came down an smacked me in the head. Question answered.
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The pigeon is like the US taxpayer and the crow is like the government eating our nest egg through deficit spending.
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