Kezmo this one is especially for you. There are about five of these that come into my mums garden and I thought they were just feral pigeons, but on looking at my BTO book could they be Stock Doves?
They are slightly smaller than the Wood pigeons and do not have the red eyes of the feral pigeons I get at home.
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Good one Kezmo! One of our prettiest doves I think!
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Cannot help but think you lucky people who have Stock Doves in gardens they are really rare in the area around us can only think of a handful of times I have seen them in the last thirty years and then they were literally miles from gardens and never imagined they would go in gardens.Enjoy them and lets hope they increase in numbers.
michael s said: Cannot help but think you lucky people who have Stock Doves in gardens they are really rare in the area around us can only think of a handful of times I have seen them in the last thirty years and then they were literally miles from gardens and never imagined they would go in gardens.Enjoy them and lets hope they increase in numbers.
Just catching up with this post. Sooty my mums garden is adjacent to farmland and her fields are surrounded by woodleand so it's only a hop over the hedge into her garden. They were much more wary than the wood pigeons, but still came right onto the veranda around the bungalow to feed.
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I was going to say Stock Dove as well.
I also get a couple every now and then on my lawn under the feeders.
They join the queue behind the Collared Doves who are in the queue behind the Wood Pigs.