They're back and breeding again. Do wood pigeons think of anything else? A third nest (strictly speaking a badly-constructed twiggy platform) has appeared in the wisteria arch. One last year and two, so far, this year. Wisteria seems to be a popular nest location for wood pigeons even after I had pruned it back. However, they don't seem at all bothered that I can see them as I pass underneath the arch.
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| Photo 1: Current Nesting Wood Pigeon (24th July 2025) |
I spotted the first nest in early June, a few days before I took this picture (Photo 2) ...
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| Photo 2: First Wood Pigeon Nest of 2025 (10th June 2025) |
... though I'd heard the comings and goings at the end of May as the nest-building birds used the top of the greenhouse as their incoming runway (Photo 3). Wood pigeons weigh between 300 - 620 g and are not particularly graceful when they land so made lots of noise as they arrived and departed.
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| Photo 3: Entrance to the Wood Pigeons' Nest |
Approximately one month later, I saw the single chick (Photo 4); no idea whether there were originally two as there had been last year.
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| Photo 4: Single Chick Growing Fast (July 7th 2025) |
A week later, we saw this squab on the patio table ...
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| Photo 5: Squab Spotted on the Patio Table (15th July 2025) |
... with one of its parents (my guess female from its neck markings) keeping a close eye on its progeny from a nearby perch ...
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| Photo 6: Parent Keeping Watch (15th July 2025) |
Pigeons do grow quite fast but could this squab (Figure 5) be the same bird as the untidy collection of downy feathers (Figure 4) we saw just a week earlier?
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| Photo 7: Squab two weeks later (29th July 2025) |
In any case, we now have a second brooding wood pigeon (Photo 1) which we will keep and eye on - difficult not to, really, as I'm constantly walking under the wisteria arch to the kitchen garden. It does mean I'll have to wait a little longer before I can finish pruning the wisteria!
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