peaceful dove

... with the arrival of this Peaceful Dove. Perhaps a rather apt species to post during the days of the anniversary of the Victory in Europe celebrations. In addition our roads are very quiet too, aren't they. It would be nice to think that could last, wouldn't it.

Sweet these little doves, aren't they ... and indeed they are little! The size of our Collared Dove is 3032 cm, giants in comparison to this one at 19 to 21 cm.

With the finches on that grass verge was a tiny Peaceful Dove. I don't think they're even as big as our Blackbirds! In fact they're not.... not even as big as our Starling! Very attractive.

With the new job I now start before sunrise and have about 30 minutes before the sun goes down after work. Hence my picture suffers from excessive sunset orange colours, but anyhow the idea of being a bird watcher stretches beyond time limitations :)

These little Doves are common in our area,around our house and also at the waterhole.The have a beautiful call(wish we could unload it on to this site).

Peaceful Dove http://johnfoss.yolasite.com/peaceful-dove.php

This is our equally smallest pigeon/dove and only our second record at our waterhole(when we have been there).They are common in our garden however.

It is that time!!!

Another species from the leaking tap puddle.

One of my favourite Doves in Australia - lovely subtle colours.

Off to England tomorrow to sort out some family business, so maybe some posts of English birds next!

Back to some old photographs, not having much luck recently.

These little doves I saw just about everywhere in the Darwin area.

Another 'easy' poolside bird in Kuala Selangor, Malaysia. A pleasure to have the light for these settings...

Another lifer we found on our trip to Queensland, we thought we would upload this beauty for Chris (ChrisKten), being our resident expert on Pigeons and Doves. Trust this brings a smile to Chris' face while he await the test results. This little cutie, at 20-24cms is one of Australia's...