![]() ![]() "He said to feed her split peas, unpopped popcorn, sunflower seeds and water and she ate the whole bowl," Lydy said, commenting on the bird's voracious appetite.įinally, Dion Hryciw, a library assistant at the Jefferson County Library, used the Internet to trace the pigeon's origin to the Siskiyou Racing Pigeon Club in California and found a phone number for the club's president. Chris, an employee there who happened to raise racing pigeons, gave them care tips. To keep the pigeon from devouring their garden, they called PetCo in Bend to see what to feed it. ![]() Lydy and her grandmother began calling everyone they could think of to find a way to track down the bird's owner through the number on its leg band. She had come back! So we decided to keep her," Lydy said, noting they caved in to the persistent pigeon's wishes and even let it roam around inside the house. the next day, my boyfriend walked into the house and had her in his hands. They were still worried about the dogs, so that same night Lydy lured her feathered friend into a cat carrier, drove it five miles to Culver and set it loose in the city park. ![]() "That night she was back on our roof and in the garden," Lydy said they were amazed to find. "We tried shooing her off, but she just kept coming back," Lydy laughed.įiguring the friendly bird would be better off with its own kind, she said, "That afternoon my friend Veronica and I took her up to the old potato factory where we'd seen other pigeons and set her loose."īut being a "homing" pigeon the bird naturally came back - to what it apparently had adopted as its new home. Lydy jotted the numbers down, but they were concerned about the bird's safety because of all the dogs in their neighborhood. ![]() The pair realized it was a homing pigeon because of the bands on its leg, one of which had the letters AU and a serial number imprinted on it. "I've always been afraid of birds, but she was neat - one nice bird - she ate right out of my hand," Lydy added. "There was a pigeon walking around the garden eating strawberries, and when I went out, it followed me around like a puppy dog," Wryn Lydy said. Wryn Lydy had just gotten home from grocery shopping Tuesday, June 7, when her grandmother, Nancy Lydy of Metolius, told her to look out in the garden. It took the combined efforts of a Metolius gardener, her bird-o-phobic granddaughter, and a library detective to solve the mystery of a wayward homing pigeon that winged its way into Metolius following a recent thunderstorm. ![]()
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