Let
me start today's post with a shot each of the two youngest wood
pigeons - Teen-pidge and Bubster-pidge. Teen-pidge was puffed up and
observant yet again, while Bubster-pidge swooped in for fodder on
the sill and did a Naboo - diving out of camera shot! Next, onto the
doves. Here is a shot of Ditty or her partner sheltering from the
gales in my tree.
As
you can see we are back to the blurry foliage shots due to wind interferences! Soon after taking the shot of Ditty during the end of
the first week in May, Magster landed in the tree for long enough to
take some photos. It was the start of the next week before I got a
decent photo of him, though.
By
the start of the second week in May I was certain that Ditty and
partner had taken up nesting residency in the laurel tree - situated
behind my main bedroom-view pittisporum tree. They often hung out in
my tree, eyeing the windowsill, scared a pair of wood pigeons from my
tree, and always seemed to disappear 'behind' the tree when departing
from sight.
Generally,
the old back yard looks a fairly good spot for birds to inhabit - as
I am sure you will agree from this next shot. One negative aspect of
the multiple tree-hedge-shrub-plant-weed-pond patch however is that
cats also enjoy it. This detracts somewhat from the birds pleasure.
My idea is that the back yard should be for NATURE. This means that
whilst I can sadly allow a sparrowhawk or fox the rights to munch one
of my friends, I am not so lenient with 'pet' cats and will chase
them on sight.
Yeah, cats are still predators, even if domesticated. It's too bad there's not some kind of natural deterrent you can put around, like dog scent or something.
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