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Birds - Pigeon & Doves Page 10

Image Taken on 05 Jun 2024 at 07:46 Image of day on 02 Jul 2024

A lucky-to-catch launch.

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Image Taken on 24 May 2022 at 14:48 Image of day on 02 Jul 2022

We rarely get pictures of birds leaving the Meadow post (a technical matter) so were surprised to get these two usable moments 3 hours apart.

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Image Taken on 13 Sep 2025 at 15:52 Image of day on 03 Nov 2025

This Wood Pigeon took off from the wooden electricity pole that is out of crop half a frame width to the right.
We rather like the mix of fluidity and stolidity

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Image Taken on 13 Feb 2021 at 09:12 Image of day on 28 Mar 2021

What this Wood Pigeon is up to we can't even imagine.

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Image Taken on 05 Dec 2020 at 15:27 Image of day on 10 Jan 2021

At this time of year we get less than 8 hours of sunlight. The orange light of the setting sun illuminates this sleek Wood Pigeon.

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Image Taken on 04 Jul 2022 at 10:37 Image of day on 21 Aug 2022

Wood Pigeon feathers look so smooth and matt you can forget that they are made up of hundreds of overlapping feathers.

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Image Taken on 05 Aug 2018 at 20:19 Image of day on 25 Sep 2018

The drought has created wide and deep cracks in exposed soil. Here a Wood Pigeon looks down the Crack hoping for some food dropped in.

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Image Taken on 06 Aug 2024 at 18:27 Image of day on 18 Sep 2024

A rather elegant portrait of a Wood Pigeon on the Tree-stump.

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Image Taken on 29 Apr 2025 at 17:39 Image of day on 11 Jun 2025

"En Garde!"
Well - watching the world go by while my mate sits on our eggs.

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Image Taken on 16 Aug 2020 at 10:47 Image of day on 23 Sep 2020

Have we found the Pigeon with the missing tail feathers? Sadly NO.
This pic was taken the day before of a similarly tail-deprived Pigeon, which may mean this is not an uncommon occurrence, but you have to be very lucky to see it.

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Image Taken on 01 Jan 2016 at 13:21 Image of day on 06 Feb 2016

This Wood Pigeon caught our eye for the range of colours on the neck plumage. We have NOT 'wound up' the colours.

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Image Taken on 10 Apr 2018 at 15:55 Image of day on 22 May 2018

3 minutes later we have just this one lovely Wood Pigeon showing us the underside of it's wings.

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Image Taken on 21 Mar 2025 at 16:10 Image of day on 27 Apr 2025

This Wood Pigeon is watching the photographer watching them.

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Image Taken on 22 Jan 2021 at 09:01 Image of day on 21 Feb 2021

A currently rare moment of sunshine illuminates the Dogwood at the rear of the main pond as this Wood Pigeon makes an elegant touchdown.

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Image Taken on 21 Jul 2024 at 09:13 Image of day on 30 Aug 2024

Oops - dropped something!

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Image Taken on 03 Dec 2020 at 11:16 Image of day on 06 Jan 2021

This Wood Pigeon out in the cold and rain plumps up the feathers to keep out the cold. No sleek breast here - maximise the insulating air-space.

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Image Taken on 10 Mar 2023 at 07:51 Image of day on 12 Apr 2023

Next morning sees another fall of snow which quickly melted.

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Image Taken on 15 Aug 2019 at 08:04 Image of day on 06 Oct 2019

We must stop deriding Wood Pigeon Nests as 'three sticks is enough'!
The meadow post automatic camera captured images of (presumably just one) Wood Pigeon endlessly stopping on the top of the post with 30 different twigs in little over 24 hours. The bird may of course stopped off elsewhere as well, and we don't know where the nest is. But enjoy 12 of the 'twigs' - its quite hard to see how the bird can fly with some of the more awkward shapes.

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Image Taken on 24 Sep 2017 at 15:37 Image of day on 03 Nov 2017

We have often commented on the 'teardrop' pupil of all of our local Wood Pigeons. This close-up shows the unusual form particularly well.

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Image Taken on 28 Mar 2025 at 12:25 Image of day on 13 May 2025

We haven't previously noticed the subtle ring of close spaced 'bumps' in the ring around Wood Pigeon eyes.

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