COLLARED DOVES

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Willpar » Sun Aug 11, 2019 4:35 pm

Nice one butterfly. Don't get them myself even though they are in the general area.

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Butterfly » Tue May 04, 2021 12:10 pm

I am pleased to say that I have a couple of young, not long ago fledged doves again :D . This is one of them :)

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Willpar » Tue May 04, 2021 7:08 pm

Nice to have butterfly. Not had them in my garden. But they eat a lot.

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Jacksparrow » Tue May 04, 2021 8:09 pm

That one looks very young. It is a little while since I had one that young although I have adult birds every day.

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Butterfly » Tue May 04, 2021 10:48 pm

Willpar wrote:
Tue May 04, 2021 7:08 pm
Nice to have butterfly. Not had them in my garden. But they eat a lot.
They do have healthy appetite :D , but I wouldn't say they eat more than woodies, or pigeons, or even starlings :shrug:
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That one looks very young. It is a little while since I had one that young although I have adult birds every day.


It does look very young, its feathers are still fluffy baby feathers, and it doesn't have its collar at all, such a sweet thing :) . The adult pair are the regular visitors to my feeders, I am guessing these are their offspring.

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Butterfly » Wed Jul 07, 2021 11:35 am

Few days ago, I was really surprised to see a flock of doves in my garden :eek: , 7 of them to be exact! I've never seen so many at the same time. I think at least 4 are this year's fledglings. They still come every day, and what's most unusual, at the same time.
I managed to take a picture of 5 of them together

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There was another one on the ground tray as well but I couldn't put her/him in the frame. So unusual :D

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Willpar » Wed Jul 07, 2021 4:18 pm

Very nice butterfly. Never get them in my garden. They are in the area but don`t come here.

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Jacksparrow » Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:49 pm

I have a feeling Collared Doves like to keep in family groups as much as possible. I seldom get a single one but get three together nearly all the time. I'm getting fewer now than 5 years ago but according to the BTO that is the case across the UK.

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Butterfly » Wed Jul 07, 2021 9:31 pm

Jacksparrow wrote:
Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:49 pm
I have a feeling Collared Doves like to keep in family groups as much as possible. I seldom get a single one but get three together nearly all the time. I'm getting fewer now than 5 years ago but according to the BTO that is the case across the UK.
Oh I thought they like keeping in pairs and only stay in a group when their young fledge, unlike pigeons. I was wrong, clearly :)

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Re: COLLARED DOVES

Post by Jacksparrow » Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:50 pm

I had another mystery today following on from the Hedgehog skull but this time it was a Collared Dove. Sometime between 9.30 and 10 o'clock this morning I noticed there were a lot of Dove feathers around the garden where previously there had been none. However there was no sign of a dead bird. My immediate thought was that a Sprawk had struck and carried off it's victim. The female is powerful enough to do that. I held that belief until about 4 o'clock when I went to the recycling bin and happened to look down into a garden trug I keep undercover close by. Lying inside was the dead body of the dove :shrug: It bore the signs of a window strike but that didn't explain all the feathers about 5 yards away nor were there any of the tell tale signs on our windows. I have given it a great deal of thought but so far I have not come up with a scenario which would produce the outcome. :shrug:

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