Pigeons can be all year if they have the right conditions, we have a week old baby now!
I've had a funny year with pigeons Merddin. A little story to tell... but cut a long story short...
I popped back home with a grapevine for the garden and went out to plant it, turned round to pick up a trowel and there it was sat on the back door step. First I thought it must have broken something, was very tame so I picked up spotted the ring underneath and started investigating. 3 days later after force feeding it by hand (wouldn't eat for itself), it started to eat and drink without assistance. Great I thought, then I get a phone call from the Pigeon Association with a chap 3 miles away, so returned it to the owner. Owner was thrilled as most that get returned never make it, mainly because the pigeons are unfamiliar with their new surroundings or are fed the wrong type of food which the pigeon rejects. So I here he is... sat on my shelf in the conservatory. I would let him out during the day, firstly because I wanted rid but then he'd come back at dusk all by himself.
Anyway, I there was this pair of pigeons which had spotted me feeding him, and one of them came back over randomly having seen me scattering some of my remaining seed on the roof. Next thing 3.30 p.m. on the dot it would sit on my conservatory door waiting to be fed!
And here is a snap of me feeding the little bugga...
Well I went on hols for a month, came back nowhere to be seen. Then the following day it was up on the roof again, not come down since yet though. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Shall see.
Fascinating animals pigeons, and some have lovely colours on their plumage.