The growing family

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So a couple of weeks after I first found the pigeon’s nest, I discovered the eggs had hatched. Several times I had peeped out of the window but the pigeon wouldn’t budge from her nest – of course this is where the phrase ‘sitting tight’ comes from! But then one morning the wind caught the window as I was looking out, causing it to crash open, and she flew away – and there were two, already half-grown, chicks! I could barely glimpse them through the leaves but of course I ran to grab a camera and managed to hold the leaves aside with a stick while I took a photo. You can just see them in one corner, although they are hard to make out. One is facing one way and the other, the opposite. After I took the photo I left and soon mother pigeon was back and watching me from above as I worked in the garden. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.