Pigeon Jam

“Pigeon Jam”

Judy Royal Glenn Photography

 

A park volunteer told me about a white pigeon in Cades Cove last week. He said the pigeon had a tag and a light on it and may have escaped from Dollywood.

 

A friend and I were driving around Loop Road when out of the corner of my eye, I spotted it. Thankfully, there was a place to pull off. I quickly motioned for my friend to park.

 

The pigeon was very tame and let us get close to photograph him. One of my goals was to photograph his feet so I could maybe get the numbers on the tags.

 

I wanted to catch it with my butterfly net and hopefully find its owner. I did not know if I would get it trouble so I let him be.

 

A “bear jam” happens when tons of people are looking at the bears. It backs up traffic sometimes causing it to halt. So, I titled this photo “Pigeon Jam” because it caused traffic to back up. The tourist were excited to slow down and take a cellphone photo of the little guy. Before long, he flew away after our photoshoot.

 

I went to the ranger station hoping I would have its tag numbers to report. Anxiously, a looked through the photos and sure enough, I had one tag number. The tag number was 80, which was on the blue and white striped tag. The other tag was orange, but I could not see a number. The workers went to the data base and sent an email with the info to find his owner.

 

Fingers crossed!

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Location: Cades Cove, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park