Wrong turn – Wayward pigeon lands in Ridge
Bay Ridge resident and local artist Alicia Degener welcomed the New Year with a new-and-improved guest room. Little did she know that her first houseguest would be a wayward flyer pigeon from Red Bank, New Jersey, now appropriately nicknamed “Brooklyn.”
“There was a pigeon on our stoop that kept giving me meaningful looks every time I went in and out,” explained the mother of two who, on Wednesday, January 14, discovered a black, white and noticeably tame pigeon perched on her front steps.
“After it sat in the same spot for hours, I realized it had ID bands around its legs,” she told The Home Reporter. Her instinct, she said, was to post a photo of the pigeon to the Bay Ridge Facebook page, a move that led to a happy ending nobody saw coming.