Dove In Flight

[Radical]

Very, very, cool shot.

 

[robbins.photo]

Absolutely beautiful DS. Great shot

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[DarkShadow]

Very, very, cool shot.

Thanks Radical

Absolutely beautiful DS. Great shot

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Thanks Robbins.

 

[sm4him]

Very nice shot! Well captured and nice lighting.
The doves are so plentiful here that many consider them a nuisance, but I can't help it. I'm a sucker for those big eyes and that lumbering way they have of coming in for a landing.

David...I have been stalking a couple of mourning doves for over a week now and I still failed. Thanks for the tip about the sunflower oiled seeds. I'd go to Lowes tomorrow to get some...I wonder if they will eat wild bird seeds? That is what I have plentiful of in my garage...

Anyway.......I will not say your shot is good and perfect, because they are and you know it....Love it very much!

Thanks you IzzieK for the kind words.

I read an article on the net somewhere that said Black Oil sunflower seeds will attract more variety of birds then any other seed mix and the shell is soft enough that small birds can easily open the shells. I am starting to think this is true because its been 2 weeks of use and now I have Red Winged Black Bird showing Up the past couple of days,I Seen a couple of male house Finch and the cardinals are daily visitors now through out the day.The Blue jays are showing more often now to. I also now have a abundance of grackles,European Starlings,Juveniles and adults, pigeons,Doves and the squirrels. I also hang one of those little cage basket that holds the suet.I got the Red Bellied Woodpeckers that come for the suet but the crackles eat that to. I buy the No melt peanut butter Flavor suet and its pretty much gone the same day but the suet is cheap.

I'd agree that the Black Oil Sunflower Seeds are one of the absolute best seeds you can use in the backyard to attract a wide variety of birds. I use only 3 kinds of bird food for year-round (well, aside from sugar water for the hummers)--no melt suet, Black Oil sunflower seeds, and thistle (Nyjer seed). The thistle is great for attracting all sorts of finches; the sunflower seed gets almost everything else, and the suet is just an extra treat for the woodpeckers.
Once in a while, I'll also put out fruit, nuts (esp. unshelled peanuts) and even jelly. The jelly is supposed to be a big attractant to Orioles, but we don't have many here, and typically I just end up getting ants instead.

 

[Civchic]

It is a beautiful picture! Good snap.

You guys who are stalking them, though, really? They are downright pests here (pretty pests, but still), and dumb as rocks. We had three on the ground last night by my son's bird feeder and one took off and smacked his head on my patio door six inches from me (I even have hawk silhouette decals on the doors).

 

[sm4him]

It is a beautiful picture! Good snap.

You guys who are stalking them, though, really? They are downright pests here (pretty pests, but still), and dumb as rocks. We had three on the ground last night by my son's bird feeder and one took off and smacked his head on my patio door six inches from me (I even have hawk silhouette decals on the doors).

I'd wonder what had happened if I *only* had three of them! On any given day, they are typically at least a dozen in my yard, and I'm pretty sure some of them have nested up under one of my hedges. They certainly CAN be annoying--they are dumb, and messy too. But they ARE photogenic, which counts for a LOT in my book!

It's interesting that you have enough of them where you are to consider them pests as well. But, remember that they are NOT as plentiful everywhere; some of these people don't live in the states, or the parts of Canada that see big dove populations. Plus, in some areas--even within the US--doves are not as used to people, and so they can be harder to get close to.
For instance, Raj mentions they always fly off before he can get anywhere near them. He's in India, and doves may be much more skittish there.

How on earth did you get so close to it? I've been able to stalk wild parakeets, but these fly away from a mile out. Just about everything is perfect in this picture David.

Raj, you'd be surprised to know that here in the southern US, in my backyard, I can sometimes get as close as 4 or 5 feet away from them before they take flight!

 

[DarkShadow]

Thanks Sharon and for the good tips on the feed.

Thanks Civchic. You had me LOL with the dove bumped his head on the patio door.

 

[Civchic]

Sharon, I know what you mean, for sure - it's like how Danny is so impressed with the American Robin and I'm like "Eh....?" Haha. You don't really think about how a species you don't even really notice because it's so plentiful can be strange and unusual in another place. Your brain just sort of assumes (incorrectly) that their strange and unusual birds are actually, well, strange and unusual. Doves just seem so placid and easy to approach, but I guess they're just another skittish wild species elsewhere.

They sure are pretty, though.

 

[CD51]

Nice shot.

 

[TipTop]

Great shot

 

[DarkShadow]

Nice shot.

Thanks CD

Great shot

Thanks TT

 

[randyphotoforum]

double wow on that one, amazing focus on such a small bird in flight

 

[DarkShadow]

Thanks you randy.

 

[IceCanAm]

Sweet shot.

 

[DarkShadow]

Thank you.