WTXaviphile
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Last week at mid-day I was looking at a pair of white-winged doves from outside my kitchen door with 8 X 36 Monarch binoculars -- distance about 20 feet -- when I caught a green flash off the neck of one dove. I kept looking and saw on both birds distinct bright green feathers in a spray sort of like the throat gorget of some birds, just below and to the back of the black streak on the side of the neck. Both sides of the necks of both birds.
The green feathers were scattered among gray ones, not in a solid marking.
Possible the feathers are only visible as green when sun is high.
Plenty of white-winged doves come to eat at my feeders, this year outnumbering eurasian collared doves, and I've been looking for 2-3 days for those green feathers. Haven't seen any more.
The green feathers were scattered among gray ones, not in a solid marking.
Possible the feathers are only visible as green when sun is high.
Plenty of white-winged doves come to eat at my feeders, this year outnumbering eurasian collared doves, and I've been looking for 2-3 days for those green feathers. Haven't seen any more.