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
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:35 pm
by The Annoyed Man
Darn shame, but I guess crows gotta eat too.
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:35 pm
by Pug
Unbelievable...
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:41 pm
by The Mad Moderate
That's incredible!
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:48 pm
by BrianSW99
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
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:03 pm
by Divided Attention
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!
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:18 pm
by Hoi Polloi
Too bad that pigeon wasn't a carrier!
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:40 pm
by texasag93
Pigeons are just flying rats. JMO.
I am sorry that your camera did not catch a happier moment.
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:54 pm
by BrianSW99
texasag93 wrote:Pigeons are just flying rats. JMO.
Yeah, I would have said that too until they nested outside our window
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:20 pm
by surprise_i'm_armed
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.
SIA
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:30 pm
by SQLGeek
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.
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:45 pm
by RPBrown
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.
Re: The nest was raided....
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:55 pm
by blackmesa
The pigeon is like the US taxpayer and the crow is like the government eating our nest egg through deficit spending.
