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Big Fight
Day 6 to 17: Various
things
There were no significant updates during last
several days. Parivalakka and her hubby were just busy incubating. During
initial few days they were constantly moving the eggs throughout the nest. Take
a look at the below picture where eggs are the center of the nest, moved from a
corner.
Eggs moved to center of the nest
I managed to get picture of Parivalanna also. The
light was bright and the pictures are not very clear, however here they are:
Parivalanna, finally caught in camera
Interesting Facts
I learnt few things about them through websites.
Some interesting facts are as below:
-
Pigeon lays second egg only after a day or so after
it lays first egg
-
Incubation process starts only after laying the
second egg (that answered my concern during first day when I thought
Parivalakka just abandoned her first egg)
-
During the day time male incubates and female
takes over evening times – it is interesting and kind of explains why we don’t
see male and female together all the time during incubation period; I wonder
why male stays away at night and why not come and stay in the nest itself
Couple of days ago, there was a brief but quite intense
fight. There was another pigeon (no idea whether it was male or female) who
visited the nest and started fighting with the female. I did not want to
intervene and just watched at the beginning. I had seen this stranger pigeon
earlier also, few days back, but then there was no drama, no action.
The fight continued and I was wondering what
happened to eggs in the nest – did they get destroyed in the process?
After few min, I decided to take a picture of the
two birds fighting. But when I brought my camera, the stranger bird sensed me
near the window and immediately flew away a little bit, Parivalakka followed.
Then Parivalanna also came into picture. Now the fight started between
Parivalanna and the stranger. In this fight Parivalanna clearly had an upper
hand and the stranger flew away in no time.
Then I checked the eggs and they were intact. I was
clueless about what that fight was all about and how the eggs remained intact when
they were stepping around inside the pot itself.
Increased sense
of security and beginning of a friendship
Meanwhile Parivalakka and Parivalanna both had
gained more confidence and were not greatly afraid of us. They had warmed up to
the idea of we being around, not too close though. I liked their attitude and
started feeding them a little bit of rice grains (oops, I had decided not to
get involved, but it was too tempting, and I did it only once a while).
Day 18: Will we
get to see the eggs hatch?
The theoretical hatching day was nearing, I thought
it might after 1 or 2 days. Though it was highly unlikely, I was wondering if I
get to see the eggs hatch. Will it happen during the day time or at night? Will
the parents be around or not? Many questions were coming to mind.
Day 19: Whoa! One
egg finally hatched
Today, on 6th Oct, at around 10 am
Smitha was in kitchen, she screamed and called me; she said “Look, look, the
male pigeon just took one egg away”. I was surprised and rushed. By the time I reached,
she screamed again “Oh, it just took the shell, the egg hatched and here is the
younger one”. Then I also saw the “Mari Parivala” – it did not look like younger
one of a pigeon at all! Here are couple of pictures.
Does it look like a pigeon?!
Soon Parivalanna retuned and continued incubation. It left me wondering
– how will the newly hatched younger one breathe under his wings? Ah! Why am I wondering,
they surely know what they are doing, isn’t it? :-)
Parivalanna back and incubating second
egg
(Now, this is a much better picture of Parivalanna, do you notice that he is darker?)
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