Who!?

#**#**#*!#!!#*!!! #**#**#*!#!!#*!!! #**#**#*!#!!#*!!!

As you know I have been nurturing a pigeon family on my porch, two babes were born over the fourth of July week; the babies having been growing bigger each day, except today I came home and as usual, the first thing I do is check on them and guess what? The babies AND their planter/nest are GONE. GONE!!!! Not just the babies, again, the planter/nest are gone as well. According to research, pigeons are raised by their parents for 4 to 6 weeks before they can fly. Those babies were only 2 weeks old!

After some investigating I found the planter/nest in the dumpster, but no babies. WHO WHO WHO would do that!?

I have no clues as to what and why this happened.. they were tucked away in a far corner, the only person that would know they were there is someone who would walk all the way over there... I can only imagine the apartment managers somehow found them and got rid of them or maybe the downstairs neighbor who was bothered by the pigeons? Who knows. The baby pigeons were not strong enough to fly on their own. Again, they were only 2 weeks old! Who could have decided they were worth nothing? I don't *#**#*!#!!#* care for one *#**#*!#!!#* minute if people just think they are flying rats, they were living, breathing animals! Who the *#**#*!#!!#* do we think we are to dictate what species can live on this Earth and what can't?

I am heartbroken. I can only imagine they had a terrible, scary death. And now their parents are coming back to the area and the nest is gone and so are their babes. What must they be thinking?

Here's the little guys at one week old... who could just think these little cuties are disposable?