The Orangery Retirement Home For Pigeons

The Orangery Retirement Home For Pigeons 🕊️ Scotland’s pigeon retirement sanctuary
Giving ex-racers, ferals & doves a safe home ❤️
Follow their love stories & help us build a forever aviary ↓

Some love stories don’t need words.Just a quiet moment, a husband gently preening his wife while she melts into him with...
03/08/2026

Some love stories don’t need words.

Just a quiet moment, a husband gently preening his wife while she melts into him with her eyes half closed. 🤍

Pigeons form strong lifelong pair bonds, and moments like these are one of the ways they strengthen that connection every single day. Sometimes the smallest gestures say the most.

Who else thinks these two have relationship goals? 🕊️❤️

Can’t park there mate!
12/07/2026

Can’t park there mate!

Building terrible nests with your person ❤️
02/07/2026

Building terrible nests with your person ❤️

28/06/2026

you’re just trying to raise your family… then someone keeps adding more eggs. 🥚😂

(Don’t worry—these eggs were only temporarily on the floor while I cleaned the loft as each real one is swapped with a dummy egg.)

Most people walk past pigeons without a second glance.But look closer.The purple and green shimmer isn’t an effect or a ...
15/06/2026

Most people walk past pigeons without a second glance.

But look closer.

The purple and green shimmer isn’t an effect or a filter — it’s the way the light catches thousands of tiny feather structures.

Ordinary to some.

Absolutely extraordinary to others. 💜🕊️

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