Doves and Crows
Sunday, as I expected wasn't good for photo shooting birds. It wasn't rainy, but cold and windy. There were lots of birds but I was still looking for the gray or green woodpecker and I heard the green one, but could not see it.
There were many doves who together with the sparrows pecked seeds. Here is a couple of them. This is Eurasian collared dove.
Its name comes from the black and white line on the neck that looks like a collar. According to Wikipedia, the bird was first described and given its scientific name Streptopelia decaocto by the Hungarian naturalist Imre Frivaldszky in 1838 in Bulgaria.
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They are rather common birds and they live throughout Europe and Asia. They also can be found in North America.
Interesting story I read how few birds escaped from a pet shop in Bahamas during burglary in the 70s. The pet shop owner released the rest of the birds and they made their way to Florida. Another flock of birds was set free in Guadeloupe when there was a thread of volcano erauption. It is believed that is how the doves were spread in North America.
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Another interesting shot was the one I made with this crow, carrying a leaf in its beak. Unlike the other crows who were busy collecting muts, this one was looking for leaves. This is hooded crow, wide spread in Europe and in some parts of Asia.
And since I have no more decent photos from Sunday, I looked through my old ones to find some not beeing shown.
Here are some recent photos of another crow.
Crows are intelligent birds. Even though they don't look pretty, they can be good companions and can adapt and live quite well together with the humans.
And since I mentioned how some crows were busy collecting nuts here are two more shots from a nice sunny day.
And that is all for now, till next time! 🕊
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Oh, the pictures of turtle doves are just amazing!😊 I love their "chokers" around the neck, very cute.
Thank you ☺
I think this is not a turtle dove, it is a bit different.
The first photos are very fitting for Christmas!
I love it!!!
Aww, thank you, I did not think about Christmas when I put the photo, but you are right. Glad you like it. ☺
Somewhere on a blog by Patel you said your pictures werent so sharp well dear these are i love them and the doves look so cute and could be a story
Thank you very much for your kind words! ❤
Your photos of these birds make them looking so sweet with characters! I never look at birds the same way I look at cats and dogs! Now they seem to have quite strong personalities!
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I was like you and I even did not pay any attention to them until recently when I found how fascinating is to watch them and to learn about our feathered neighbours.
Ha! The doves look like our Cape ring-neck doves!
Here's some with a squirrel in our garden.
Lovely pictures that you have here my friend!
They do ☺
They must be cousins of our doves.
Pretty picture of them and the squirrel. Seems they don't mind each other ☺
Hahaha, yeah, they are all cousins methinks.
The squirrels occasionally get into arguments and chase the doves, as the doves also like peanuts and they know how to open the shells to get to the nuts.
I can picture that - an argumentative squirrel. 😅
It must be real fun watching them. ☺
Hahahah, they are really funny little critters my friend.
The cutest is at the bird bath and when they hang upside down on the trees.
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Again the Bird Queen comes up with nice photos of birds and neither of these i have seen before the coloring of that Crow in a beautiful mix i have only ever seen pure black ones 👍
Oh, thank you! 😊
These crows are wide spread here and there are some black ones which live in the fields only.
You are so lucky to have a great variety of birds to photograph over there and all close by 👍
And we still continue to discover new ones.
Great that will keep the posts more interesting always love seeing new species 👍