Saturday 5 March 2016

Preening in the Holly

Today has been a miserable cold, wet, windy day. I've stayed in, apart from a brief burst of dryness in which I was able to get out to have a quick hair scalping but no more. The big exercise dreams will have to wait until tomorrow.

Until then, I refer you back to a sunny day last week in which I figured I'd just wander around the garden and see who was about. Next door's Polish labrador puppy, a boisterous golden character called "Falco" was absent, which explains why I was able to get some nice shots of a collared dove doing its hair in the holly tree.



It did notice I was observing it, so the dove observed me quizzically for a few minutes before resuming its coiffuring efforts.



Eventually it was finished, and allowed me to have a look at its nice smooth plumage.


I had other observers as well. Not content with owning a labrador, I noticed that there are other curtain twitchers in the Polish household.


Hoping for good light and pretty birds tomorrow.

8 comments:

  1. Preening .. an important daily activity nicely captured Simon.

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  2. Poor parrots want to go out and play with the dove. Nice shots, though.

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  3. Beautiful photos of the dove. The parrots are so colourful. I hope they are able to fly around indoors.

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  4. Love those two parrots peeping through the window!

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  5. Was wondering if they were parrots or lovebirds. Ah well, they are very pretty!

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  6. Nice photos of the collared dove preening and the parrots/lovebirds look very cute :)

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  7. And thank you so much for dropping by, everybody! Forgive my manners.

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