wood pigeon

Flaps fully deployed, Wood Pigeon cleared for landing!

A little sleepy, this Wood Pigeon.

Pigeon ramier - Columba palumbus - Wood Pigeon

This Wood Pigeon was the first to come for breakfast, so had the full choice! Seems he's gone for the insect nibbles first. TTTW

Evasive action

Getting nearer

Just taken off

Like the 'pose'

Thank you for your comments on my pictures, and good birding! Stay safe and well. John

Not our favourite but still handsome and readily available from the garden

One of the first birds that made me realize I was in for a world of confusion doing birding in two languages. In English this is a Wood Pigeon. There is also a pigeon called Skogsdue in Norwegian - literally Wood Pigeon, but not. Nope, that's a Stock Dove. Wood Pigeon is called Ringdue (Ringed...

Taking off from next door's roof

Have many of these locally

as opposed to grounded. I think the Magpies intentionally tip my feeders, spilling seed on the ground (in addition to the ones the passerines drop) where it's easier for them to forage. There's now such a thick layer of seeds and husks under the feeders that the Wood Pigeons have also taken to...

Taken, I think, in one of the old willows along the river. I should probably learn to take notes as I shoot pictures, or at least to add place titles to my archive files instead of just dates :S

This Wood Pigeon had just landed on the water for a drink when he took off and flew directly towards us in the hide. His wing 'headlights' remind me of the machine guns on a plane's wing. Never seen a pigeon go into the middle of the water for a drink, only wading at the edge?

And we moan about the weather sometimes. TTTW.

.... nothings in her ear. Isn't that cute now? I've not often caught them 'billing and cooing' LOL TTTW

... I can't believe these both came in and settled down to feeding together!! There must be something in the water LOL TTTW