I-Spy....Sounds

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Doves. This summer a small flock of white rock pigeons (we call them doves) have taken to sitting on next door's roof and cooing enthusiastically. In the heat they would shelter from the sun underneath their solar panels, still cooing and attempting to nest. Their cooing is totally different from feral pigeons (which I dislike intensly), a soft coo coo with a rolling of their rrr's. I love to see and hear these quaint birds, i wish they would come down to be fed, but the new neighbours (the scorched earth townies), really dislike them, so much so that they have put netting all around the edges of the solar panels to stop them. Now the summer has gone they don't appear that often or maybe the net put them off. They don't seem to like our roof half as much.

I've no idea why they moved to the country, if it's green they want to chop it down, if it walks the dog chases it. Having said that though she very proudly sent us a photo of a cock pheasant peering into their back patio doors, probably either admiring his reflection or more likely trying to fight it off as an interloper on his territory.