Accessorizing

I like to put leg bands on the baby pigeons I raise so I can keep track of them once I turn them out with the other 40 pigeons. I had put a yellow band on the most recent baby when she (I think it's a she) was small, thinking she would grow into it. She didn't, this little one is quite petite. She's old enough now to pick her own accessories. So I brought out the leg band box this morning.

First she chose a basic brown band. A tasteful choice, perhaps, because it matches the brown in some of her feathers. Not my choice, though. I can't see a brown band very well in a pen with 80 pigeon legs.

After trying out all the colors, throwing a few bands onto the floor and carrying a few more around in her beak, little pigeon finally tossed this one on the counter.

"I want this one," she said. So we took off the large one and replaced it with the smaller version.

I think she would have preferred rhinestones to plastic, but I haven't been able to find fancy legbands.