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On the beach
Doc Duck

On the beach (Columba livia)

Don't know if this pigeon was foraging or drinking (salt water? this is, after all, a fjord at low tide) in the first image I posted of him. Whatever he was doing, it doesn't seem to have done him any harm |=)|
Habitat
mudflats
Location
Leangenbukta, Lade trail, Trondheim, Norway
Date taken
05 Oct 2014
Scientific name
Columba livia
Equipment used
fz200 +2.2
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Opus Editor
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Such lovely iridescence captured in that neck - a super shot this Ann.
 
You caught the colours so well, Ann. I like the setting too. Brian is right - the bill does look to be crossed over?
 

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