@Pigeonman ā¦here you go fellaā¦they must of heard me talking about em because sure enough this morning the mum turned up on my fence to inspect her grain feed I lay on the floorā¦if you peek through the blind you can see her on fenceā¦
and then low and behold the dad turns up and they been doing this a few yearsā¦they breed in the tree you see in backgroundā¦in the exact same place!!!
I have a magic and a love in my heart for everything livingā¦and they flock to our little garden in the countryā¦I have a Robin who sits on my windowsill and taps with his beak for foodā¦birds on itā¦lololā¦bless emā¦mad how I met a pigeonman onlineā¦lolol
We have Finches that breed on our property every year as we have made a safe-space for songbird breeding. Additionally Robins are starting to nest here again as well; they moved next-door when we lost our 45+ year old Cherry Tree.
Thereās the raccoon family in another yard that visits ours each night to drink, and when itās breeding season the preggo momma grabs cat-food from the feral cat feeding stations to supplement her needed calories (and thankfully this means she leaves all our plants and bins alone!)
I have no idea where the skunk family and opossums live but they do cruise through every now and then.
Bees EVERYWHERE, butterflies, dragonflies, etc. I ensure breeding places in our pond for the dragonflies so itās rad in August when they are 4 winged fighter āplanesā jetting around eating all the fuckery-bugs!
Thankfully the blue jay family lives a few houses down so they let us sleep
And gratefully the Pigeon flock has gone down from 2022ās 15-25 birds making a mess and needing to be chased off due to the potential hazards down to 4 birds, one female of which must be Pigeon breeders stock that got out cause itās showbird quality! Itās mate is a standard looking T.dot Pigeon so their kids should come out interesting.
Itās great seeing ONLY these few nowā¦ I hated chasing off the larger flock but theyāll fuck up our roof and the guano could become a problem.
I knew you was good stock the day I met you as vegguerilla and I voted your story on how you came about your name the best if you remember?..I liked you from that momentā¦and sending you those black raptor cross to Canada from where I live and it costing 4.20 and I showed you the ticket receipt you kinda get a feeling them variables happening breed freindships that are honest and trustingā¦very difficult to find onlineā¦Iām glad I reached out to you and in the end you did to meā¦your a warm and pleasant person and it shows in how transparent you areā¦thereās no act with me or youā¦we just ppl connecting online who are one of the sameā¦and its refreshingā¦your garden and the animals that seem to frequent there sound awesomeā¦lololā¦only predator here is domestic cats and most of em you donāt see in the garden so birds pop in daily to inspect whatās around and take a drinkā¦we get goldfinches Robins and blue and great tits quite regularā¦I get this little picture hd view every morning out that window and it warms my dayā¦start the day the right wayā¦lololol
I think i know what the bottom plant is in that pic. I google imaged what I suspected. Ever chew it? Better still, ever process it? What about seeds? LMAO
Shoot, I thought it was Erythroxylaceae. I read up after i posted last, and found what it is. Check the pic Erythroxylaceae, donāt the leaves look similar? Themās some bright red berries aināt they?
if that helmet stays there and doesnāt move you have to make intervention and either bend back or break the very tip of that coty for the first leaf to openā¦it sounds brutal but snipping that fold over helmet tip if it doesnāt open saves it lifeā¦
I took a fraction of that folding tip in pic 1ā¦pic 2 was a few days laterā¦and I had to go to gooeybreeder for help on that 1ā¦if it happensā¦you know what to do.
you may find doing this and gently coaxing that fold back and forth ever so gently and trying to open a small gap and then snip a very small pieceā¦and then just leaveā¦the first few leaf sets will mutate but by the 3rd leaf which theyāve done here,they grow through itā¦you cut a baby into quarter doing this so itās critical a small snip cut and leftā¦its done the job here.
The spray was my 1st intervention so far, and as of this am the cotyledons are starting to flex the shell open. If itās not off tonight there are always a set of tweezers next to this tent
My seed popping method of heavy-scuffing + H202/H20 soak usually mitigates the shells toughness via appropriate saturation unless itās uber beefy.
in that seedling tray,add a cup or bowl of water to raise humidity slightly if you can dudeā¦and that cap Junky will not fold over and openā¦its literally you trying to bend that fold and snip the tiniest piece off edge of coty and it should release flowerā¦your humidity has to raise a little I would say before you do thisā¦bloody hell,they all doing itš