A pigeon hotel. Seen last month in a public park in Alcoy, Spain.

Most of the rooms looked to be out of service but the luxurious upper floors were visibly in use. In France such colombariums dispense healthy food laced with contraceptives for the guests. I could not find any information on this particular project.

In Square René le Gall, Paris.

Lately I've noticed the mourning dove nesting in our planter has been vibrating a lot lately. It's throat visibly and silently vibrates. I've even noticed it's tail has been vibrating as well and it's causing the plants in the planter to shake too.

Currently there's two babies in the nest with it so I assume it's some form of contentment like a cat purring?

When I first go outside, it's usually like an unblinking statue. Once I'm sitting down and eating or playing music at a reasonable volume, it's quite animated, curious, blinking and vibrating constantly.

I also thought maybe it has something to do with producing crop milk since this all started sometime around when the babies hatched but I can't find anything when I search for more information.

Every year the mourning doves come to claim my mothers planter on our backyard deck to make a nest. They even have some shelter overhead to protect themselves from rain and sun.

This year they took about 4 days to prepare their nest before the mother started staying full time.

They are all quite chill with us on the deck and will usually watch us for a bit until they relax. I'm sure my dad will slowly work up to being able to water the plants without the doves flying away but it's still too soon right now.

Looking forward to seeing the babies :)

What can happen when you don't touch the back row of the container stack for long enough.

Apparently inspired by “Dinosaur,” a pigeon statue on the High Line Plinth, at 30th Street and 10th Avenue

Doesn’t sound like it’ll be a recurring thing (they totally should do it again), but looks like it was lots of fun!

NYT archive link