pigeon murder

So.. remember how we have pigeons on our balcony? Basically, we had a bunch of boxes on our balcony when we left to get married and when we came back, some Pigeons had built a nest and laid 2 eggs behind one of the boxes. We felt bad since the eggs were already there and decided to just let the eggs hatch and the birds learn to fly and then we would get rid of the nest.

Sounds easy right? Well not so much. They have pooped everywhere and the pigeons coo outside our window REALLY loud durring the night and even though they only take up a tiny corner of the balcony, I just want my whole balcony to myself. Well the babies will be flying here in a few weeks and we are ready to clean off the nest. Problem is.. they started building a SECOND nest in a different corner. We immediately went out and destroyed the nest before they could lay any eggs in it. Sounds mean but we were avoiding a bigger problem, we thought.

The pigeons came back later and nest or no nest, she squatted down and started to lay an egg. We were freaking out because we didn't want to deal with more baby pigeons again but fate took care of things.

There are small openings at the bottom of our balcony. We watched in slow motion as she laid her egg.. it rolled down.. through the hole.. and down four stories.

We couldn't believe it! It's definitely very sad. I may have had extreme feelings of guilt. But it's kind of a blessing because if the egg hadn't fallen, there is no way I could have destroyed it myself and we would have even more pigeon poop and loud cooing all night.

Moral of the story: Don't let pigeons lay eggs on your porch. You will end up inadvertently killing their future babies.