Thanks to @keithboone for #featheredfriday
Caught this mourning dove in a tree in the late afternoon. Doves are quite common here in the northern California. We see them in the fields during the day and flying off to their roosts at dusk but don't often catch them in a tree like this.
Dublin, California. January 2019. All photos original.
Wow. Beautiful bird... And so close!
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thanks. We were on a bridge overlooking a small stream so we were kind of up in the trees :)
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We see them in our backyard all the time in my part of Texas. They love the black oil sunflower seeds that I put in my bird feeders!
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Very pretty birds :)
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Beautiful images @steven-patrick. Great composition and blurred effect in the second photo.
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thanks @trudeehunter I liked that one too
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Nice photo, especially the second pic...
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second is definitely more artsy :)
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Great shots! If a hawk makes a pass at my bird feeder it is usually the mourning dove that he has for lunch. Maybe because they are bigger targets or slower than most of the other birds that come to the feeder?
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thanks @melinda010100 maybe they are just more tasty ha ha Sorry I couldn't resist
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That is probably it! 😃
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Nice shots .....
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thanks @rentmoney
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Most beautiful they are @steven-patrick.
I loves the doves..!!!
(:
I have a few here. I put cracked corn out for them to eat.
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Doves are beautiful birds
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Lovely shots. We have the mourning doves here in spring & summer. i see them usually in the driveway picking something in the gravel.
Nice to hear their mourning call.
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thanks we called them rain doves when I was growing up
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Sweet shots and what a beautiful bird
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thanks @tattoodjay
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most welcome my Friend
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Hmm, that dove looks a lot different than doves over here.
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Cool. I'm always interested in different birds from different places. I love #featheredfriday because there are birds from all over the world.
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Lovely shots, what a pretty bird! I love the sound they make. Oh! I just noticed the second bird in the background of photo number two... that makes it even better! Great work, thank you for posting in Feather Friday! Voted and resteemed :-)
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People seem to like photo number two. I zoomed through some branches. Sometimes I like that but usually I think oops that was a mistake.
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Generally, I prefer not to have branches in front of the bird, but many times it can't be avoided. I certainly don't feel it is a distraction here. There is a tiny branch crossing in front of a part of the tail but it's almost invisible. Discovering the second bird in the background is kind of like finding an Easter Egg, it's very cool :-)
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Howdy sir steven-patrick! hey those are great pictures of a wonderful species of bird, I love doves. Great job.
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Yes I remember sitting by an irrigation tail water pond at dusk in western Kansas watching the doves come zooming in. It was so arid of a landscape that they came from all around to the only water
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Howdy sir steven-patrick! oh yeah, that sounds very familiar having grown up in SouthWestern Kansas out by Dodge City. VERY little water though, basically a semi-arid desert!
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OMG. Ulysses, Kansas for 7 years. Plus a couple of years in Ulysses earlier too.
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ha! yes sir I've been there a few times, to Ulysses. What were you doing there, work? And where are you now, Colorado?
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Growing up ha ha. My dad worked for a natural gas pipeline company. I'm in California now.
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howdy back sir steven-patrick! oh, interesting..so you guys got to travel to different states or was it just Kansas. And you're in California now. Sorry to hear that. lol..just teasing, it's a marvelous, fantastic state.
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we had some snow yesterday! I was going to make a "when hell freezes over" post just for folks like you ha ha. But it really did snow. We moved a lot but just only in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
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