Sitting next to the pond yesterday when a pidgeon landed on the bridge, stood for a while then swooped down to the pond and and hovered with it's feet in the water, my wife said he is washing his feet, I think he was trying to catch my Koy, never heard of pidgeons doing this before, Surely not normal or is it?

Pigeons do not catch live food. They do like to drink and bathe at the edge of pools though. Are you sure it was a pigeon?

Pigeons eat seeds primarily.

if the pigeon spoke pidgin it was not a pigeon

Pigeons do not catch live food. They do like to drink and bathe at the edge of pools though. Are you sure it was a pigeon?

Pigeons eat seeds primarily.

yep I know what a pigeon looks like and this was a common or garden wood pigeon as found on page 62 of 'Birds of Thailand' by Craig Robson, it neither drank nor bathed, it hovered over the water putting both it's feet in the water trying to grasp something, it did this two times.

I guess then If they don't eat live food then it must have been washing it's feet.

Didn't look like it to me though, seen enough pond herons and kingfishers taking a quick snacks from my pond to know what a fish thief looks like.

Are you sure it was a pigeon?

He probably meant to say "penguin".

Maybe it dropped something in the water and was trying to retrieve it?

Introduce a turtle to the pond:

Yup strange things happening with those experiments on nuclear power plants in Thailand!

Maybe it dropped something in the water and was trying to retrieve it?

:D

you just made my day

MERRY CHRISTMAS

LaoPo

Introduce a turtle to the pond:

Holy Mackerel (Holy Pidgeon).....was that for breakfast or lunch ?

That's one fast turtle.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

LaoPo

........... it hovered over the water putting both it's feet in the water trying to grasp something, it did this two times.....

Rimmer, can you recall if the pidgeon was carrying a book...."How to sh_t on Humans" ?

MERRY CHRISTMAS

LaoPo

Introduce a turtle to the pond:

Holy Mackerel (Holy Pidgeon).....was that for breakfast or lunch ?

That's one fast turtle.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

LaoPo

Bad A_ss turtle!

Pelicans also works.

........... it hovered over the water putting both it's feet in the water trying to grasp something, it did this two times.....

Rimmer, can you recall if the pidgeon was carrying a book...."How to sh_t on Humans" ?

MERRY CHRISTMAS

LaoPo

Well now you mention it....

Maybe It did seem to drop something that looked like a book

Not fishing.

This pigeon was most likely either drinking, bathing (birds love to bathe) or seeing its reflection as a territorial rival.