I know nothing about birds - I am in Glen Burnie, Maryland - a carrier pigeon (I think) showed up on my front step 3 days ago. We had some wild bird seed, and so we threw a handful out for her, and went off shopping. When we came back 4 hours later, the bird was still there, and looking at us expectantly. It seemed very tame, didn't act ill at all, and so we gave it some more bird seed, and a bowl of water. It flew off later that day and was gone, but the next morning was back. It stayed all day, and finally we gave it some more seed, and it ate it and hung around, again flying off at night. Today is the third day it has shown back up, I am starting to think maybe feeding it was a mistake (D'oh!), but it looked lost and lonely and hungry that first day. It has a blue band on the right foot that says 625 WITCH from as close as I can tell, and on the left foot it has a black plastic band, that looks like it has a place to stick the tiny roll with the secret message on it. What should I do? Picture of bird here:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=jb4nkw&s=4
