Birds 08 - Pigeons

Chennai City, on the shores of Bay of Bengal, they say, has just three climates hot, hotter and the hottest. Within a couple of months of our moving in to the new apartment pigeons came in and everywhere their call rang ‘gotrgoo-gooo'. November, it rained cats and dogs when a pigeon couple nested beside the AC outdoor unit below the window sill, of my daughter's bedroom. A month passed, one morning we woke up to the ‘keeyoh-keeyoh' of the chicks, it is then we knew we'd missed the sight of the eggs. Then there were the parents flitting in and out without rest fetching food for the chicks, trying to quench their insatiable hunger. It was another four weeks before the squabs flitted out from their insalubrious dwelling and flew free to the open skies.