Thank you, I will remember to do that next time. The pics were already quite heavily cropped (my camera is terrible) so I was concerned that they would become too pixelated, but can see they come up very small.
Flying high over my garden last night, about the size of a Buzzard. I have two guesses, neither of which I shall post here, because they will probably be very wrong!
What is it?
Hi Tawny0wl,
Your bird is a variation of the standard 'Pigeon'. They were originally bred from rock doves for food (standard feral pigeon and white dove), racing, shows, etc. but have since escaped and interbred with each other to produce some very interesting looking birds.
Hi,
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