Pigeon Capers - 1

After spending five years in a neighbouring town, I shifted back to my home town -Baroda, six months ago. While looking for apartments, I fell in love with a fourth floor apartment whose living room opened out into a terrace which was as large as the entire apartment! It has amazing views and brings in tons of light and wind inside the house. The terrace was the main attraction for choosing the apartment, which itself needs a lot of improvements.
But I never realised that the terrace was a package deal or that it came along with 'The Pigeon Circus'! Yes, that's right, there's this whole community of pigeons who use my terrace as their personal YMCA hostel, they come here for lodging and boarding....food, water and a cool bath.....
Every morning as soon as I get up, I throw handfuls of juvaar seeds throughout the terrace. The pigeon community is waiting on the terrace ledge, and as soon as I step into the terrace, some of them will fly down on to the terrace floor in anticipation of the spread. After the juvaar seeds are finished, some of them will step into my potted plants to search for worms or whatever in the soil. While eating, there are many skirmishes apparently to protect one's territory....while some of them are not interested in eating themselves as much as they are interested in making sure that others cannot eat!!! Talk about being a dog in the manger....There's this black and white pigeon, whose single point agenda seems to be preventing others from eating....I just haven't been able to figure out that dude....
(to be contd...)