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arobwk

  • Joined Nov 2015
  • Kernow: where 2nd-home owners rule !
Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« on: October 09, 2020, 10:09:21 pm »
While I know WPs breed early in the year and can then, potentially, have more than one brood, what are they doing trying to mate this late in the year? 
While tidying parent's garden today (for a tidy look on my mother's 90th b/day on Monday) there was a duo of WP males chasing a female:  they stayed around/moved between the birch trees for quite a while and eventually I noticed one of the males actually mounting the female. 
What on earth is going to come of that?  Do they normally just "carry on" until a brood fails to hatch or chicks fail to survive for what-ever reason?   (I've not noticed this before;  which doesn't mean it is actually unusual.)
« Last Edit: October 09, 2020, 10:15:31 pm by arobwk »

Blondie

  • Joined Apr 2014
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2020, 07:24:29 am »
I think their usual breeding season is April - October but they have been recorded breeding in every month. So although later in the year it’s not that usual for them to still be trying :)

Goatherd

  • Joined Dec 2014
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2020, 08:31:27 am »

   Happy Birthday to your mum

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2020, 10:32:07 am »
They try to breed all year round here.

arobwk

  • Joined Nov 2015
  • Kernow: where 2nd-home owners rule !
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2020, 03:40:57 pm »
But can they sustain late broods?  (I know they provide breast milk to their young, but ....)

Rupert the bear

  • Joined Jun 2015
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2020, 03:48:10 pm »
The ones here are still on the go , the question is , puff or shortcrust pastry ?

arobwk

  • Joined Nov 2015
  • Kernow: where 2nd-home owners rule !
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2020, 04:47:31 pm »
The ones here are still on the go , the question is , puff or shortcrust pastry ?


Short-crust every time for me or, even better, proper pasty pastry.  (I have no idea how to make the latter so don't ask.)

Pigeon pasty - now there's a thought and it has a certain ring to it (no pun intended) doesn't it ?!

In passing:  my paternal grand-mother had two pasty recipes - the standard steak, potato, onion & turnip (swede to most of you) and then she had the bacon, potato and leek pasty.  I've no idea how she prepared her leeks, but I have to say her bpl pasties were something else !  She was Cornish born and bred so her bpl pasty was still definitely "Cornish".  Of course, which ever recipe, the pasty-ends always overlapped both sides of the plate !!
 
« Last Edit: October 11, 2020, 11:06:17 pm by arobwk »

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2020, 06:29:11 pm »
But can they sustain late broods?  (I know they provide breast milk to their young, but ....)


Err....I think it's crop milk.  Pigeons do have breasts but they don't have nipples and they don't produce milk  :eyelashes:


Our pigeons live in a gun-free enclave, as long as they stay off my winterbrassicas  :huff:
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arobwk

  • Joined Nov 2015
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Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2020, 06:58:16 pm »
Yeah.  TY for the correction [member=4333]Fleecewife[/member]  :)

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2020, 10:40:18 pm »
Yeah.  TY for the correction [member=4333]Fleecewife[/member]  :)

Tongue in cheek, [member=152775]arobwk[/member]  ;D

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« Last Edit: October 11, 2020, 11:03:51 pm by Fleecewife »
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2020, 11:49:47 pm »
 :roflanim: :roflanim:

arobwk

  • Joined Nov 2015
  • Kernow: where 2nd-home owners rule !
Re: Wood pigeon breeding seasons
« Reply #11 on: October 20, 2020, 08:29:52 pm »
I've since been told proper pasty pastry is "rough puff" pastry.  I'm not much the wiser about how to make it (or any pastry for that matter) although it's clearly sort-of half way between short-crust and puff. 

 

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