sandeyeOUR DOVES
May 6th 2009 17:11
We have only a few doves now, compared to several years ago, when we first started feeding wild bird seed to the show pigeons. TwoToe has either left us or died and it is very hard to determine the other doves apart. He was quite a character, with his constant chasing of the girls and his missing toe.
As love and dozing in the poinsettia or on the fence seem to be the two main occupations of our doves, it is currently difficult to claim that any particular dove has a specific personality. With the pigeons, it is a little easier, for they have different markings, mostly.
It is possible to tell the difference between a few doves, but not for long. Baby doves do not yet have their spotted collar and are simply soft brownish gray feathers around their neck, sometimes tufted and punkish in image. Older doves all look extremely similar to me at the moment, though perhaps if I paid them more attention I would begin to be able to tell them apart.
We do have one dove that sits on the dunny roof a lot of the time, acting quite like the pigeons in nature - peeping into the kitchen window, eager to spot me appear in the hope of being given something yummy if I see him. It flies down directly to the seed or home made bread scraps that I toss out, unlike the other doves who are a little more timid and wait until after the pigeon-rush or my vanishing. However, if you took away this dove's personality and stuck him next to another, it is not likely that I could tell you which he was.
As love and dozing in the poinsettia or on the fence seem to be the two main occupations of our doves, it is currently difficult to claim that any particular dove has a specific personality. With the pigeons, it is a little easier, for they have different markings, mostly.
It is possible to tell the difference between a few doves, but not for long. Baby doves do not yet have their spotted collar and are simply soft brownish gray feathers around their neck, sometimes tufted and punkish in image. Older doves all look extremely similar to me at the moment, though perhaps if I paid them more attention I would begin to be able to tell them apart.
We do have one dove that sits on the dunny roof a lot of the time, acting quite like the pigeons in nature - peeping into the kitchen window, eager to spot me appear in the hope of being given something yummy if I see him. It flies down directly to the seed or home made bread scraps that I toss out, unlike the other doves who are a little more timid and wait until after the pigeon-rush or my vanishing. However, if you took away this dove's personality and stuck him next to another, it is not likely that I could tell you which he was.
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