Elmo was being so ridiculous yesterday. I’ve never seen him in such a state. He was utterly jealous of Georgie!
I let Georgie incubate the fake eggs for longer than usual to prevent her from laying another set of eggs too soon since she’s had some health problems with the previous pairs of eggs (see: Vet trip and Updates on Georgie and Elmo) so Elmo hasn’t had any real contact with her or seen her for about a month. Yesterday Georgie decided she’d had enough (and frankly, so had I! I wanted my cuddly pigeon back) and left the nest to join me and you should have seen the look on Elmo’s face!!! He was livid. He couldn’t handle all the attention I was giving Georgie.
Now Georgie is my ‘mate’, while my husband is Elmo’s, so it’s only natural for me to reestablish my bond with Georgie. But Elmo wasn’t impressed. Since I’ve been home more often during the daytime Elmo has decided he likes me and has been bonding with me as well. I think, with Georgie out of the picture for a month, Elmo thought he was top bird!
So when Georgie started to cuddle with me last night on the sofa Elmo raced over and was visibly shaking with jealousy and anger at the sight of me cuddling Georgie. It was hilarious!! As soon as I looked down at Elmo he’d twitch and coo to invite me to cuddle him, but if I ignored him to cuddle Georgie he’d peck my arm to get my attention.
I’ve never seen him this jealous before. Usually Georgie is jealous of Elmo when I give him attention, so it was funny to see Elmo jealous of her! (see: Jealous Georgie!)
I now have two needy pigeons vying for my attention.
Elmo is so hilarious. I would coo and dance to him
HI we only have one pigeon named piggles, also goes by name devil-bird. Anyways she, once again, started nesting, this time on a bag of books, which was in hallway.
I thought that was great as it would be super dark w all doors closed and no windows. Just like we all read in caring for pigeons – full darkness/quiet and so on.
She taught us that it is not going to b that way by flying off nest to land on hall floor and walk around. cliky clkity cliktiy goes her feet.
So brought into bedroom the bag of books with her nesting – put it next to our sleeping area and now she is happy being once again among her pigeon people.
We all get up at 5am to get ready for work and take her to do her ablutions then pop her back onto nest till i leave at 10 am.
Just like your place – pigeons rule (sort of)
Hello Ara, lovely to hear your story about Piggles! She’s obviously queen of the household!