TUPELO, Miss. - Tupelo Middle School's seventh grade pre-A.P. class may look like your average science class, but there's something unusual here; and it's fluttering right outside the door.

"Just for a kick, we brought some pigeons up here, homing pigeons, and thought we'd let them fly around and we did that," Science teacher Holly Bailey explains. "Some of them left and one of them stayed and then we got an interesting visitor."

Mic, the banded racing pigeon from Missouri, had found Ladasha, who was living outside the science class all alone. Students say the romance took flight immediately.

"MmmHmm," Seventh Grader Haley Cook exclaims, with an intriguing look on her face. "We think that they may be cooking something up here."

So now, a project that began as simple bird watching is soaring to new heights, and it's putting these seventh graders on the edges of their seats.

"I want to have a few more pigeons and I also want to be able to study them. I think the more pigeons we get the more interacting we'll be able to do," Cook says. "I think we can involve math here, we can involve science, we can study their behaviors, their habitat, what they like to do."

They're set free every day and they always come back.

It looks like Mic and Ladasha are here to stay, and that's okay with these students and their teacher, as the pigeons have brought a new kind of excitement to the classroom.

"I think it's going to be really cool to watch them and their children grow up," Cook says with a laugh. "And be able to study them more closely."

"It makes them excited to come," says Bailey. "I look forward to coming and seeing what they're doing, how they're reacting."

The Tupelo Middle School students are now doing their homework- searching for grant money that may be available for purchasing more pigeons and an appropriate pin.

The students have already written three pages of ways more pigeons would benefit their learning experience.