Wild Pigeon's Neat.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 9 June 1906, Page 22

Wild Pigeon's Neat.

In a speech before the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, Mr R. C. Bruee mentioned that he had never found a wild pigeon’s nest. Mr A. Hansen writes to the “Post” from the Penearrow Head Lighthouse as follows:— “While stationed at Puysegur Point Lighthouse, about twenty-three years ago, I found a colony of pigeons' nesta

on a high ridge between the lighthouse and Cromarty. The nests were all built on the bushy branches of the silver pines, which mostly cover the sandstone ridges in the locality. - The architecture of the nests was of the usual wild pigeon character, i.e., ragged and open. The eggs and young birds could plainly be seen through the nests when standing beneath them. None of the nests were more than ten feet from the ground—some of them only half that height. The nests contained both eggs and young birds. I took a young bird, to the lighthouse and reared it. It became very tame, and would follow me anywhere. I had the bird for about six months, when it disappeared.” Mr Hansen adds that there are keepers now in the lighthouse service who can vouch for the accuracy of the foregoing statements. Jf Jl