Anyone know about Doves ?

[Jaws]

We have a pair of doves that come to feed every day in the back garden..
One is so tame he pecks at the door to be fed and stands there waiting while Mo or I tip the food on the floor ( He will come to within a few inches of our hands but will never actually take from them )

They also nest within site of the garden so seem to be around this immidiate area most of the time.

Now, the question is this..

I often see lots of pairs of doves all round the town but they behave lioke normal birds, in that they will fly off as soon as a human gets within 20 yds..

Does anyone know how far from their prefered haunt will doves fly to feed ?

 

[ianrobbo1]

are you asking to borrow my "air rifle" John?? cos it's shit hot at knocking pigeons and stuff like that down!! :dunno:
I dont like the dirty fookers either, shittin all over the place and "coo'ing" first thing in "T" morning down "T" chimney pot,!!! dove's is the same an all imho!!

 

[Duck n Dive]

Not too sure but I think ther're flocking birds (there's a lead in for someone).

Nesting is oppurtunistic rather than building their own they use old nests or suitable locations such as old pots etc.
If somehting happens the parents then any young are reared by others in the flock.

And when IanRobbo turns up they have a distintictive call of "shit...get the flock out of here"

Wan't there a Honda Dove many years ago?

 

[Hornblower]

They will fly as far as they need to if they know there is a good meal there. Then if the food is always available will move in. Last year I was very patient and over a few weeks got one so tame it would fly down, land on me and eat out of my hand eventually three of its friends saw that if they came to me they would get fed too. In the end I had to shoo them away coz the little buggers would mob me or sarah as soon as we went out side or if we left a door open they would come into the house and knock things over and crap every where.

 

[Jaws]

Well Mo loves her birds.. she feeds them all ( we have loads of those 'fat balls' hanging up, plus peanut dispensers, and a few nesting boxes around the garden which are used most years )

Must admit it is nice to see all the different species coming into the garden and feeding.. As Mo says, its like having an avery without the bars..
I am no bird spotter, but reckon there must be at least 15 to 20 species regularly feeding, plus the odd stranger sometimes

The colours are amazing.. blues, greens yellows.. plus the various browns and blacks and of course the red of the robins..

 

[Codbasher]

I dont like birds,


Esp Seagulls!







Why?







Cos a feckin great seagull dumped its bowels over the sleeve on me jacket when I was riding through Eastbourne today

 

[BlackBirdBaz]

I hate doves and pigeons, give me a nice pair of tits any day !

 

[Gatso shy]

Doves !!!

Doves !!! ...................thought this was a Blackbird site

 

[Jaws]

It is Jim, but this is the ornotholgy section..
Welllll, might as well have one of those cos we have one for bovins.. at least their excrement !

 

[Punchy]

We have flocks of Jackdaws where I live and the feckers are a bleedin menace. The car, the gas meter box, and back steps are always covered in shit. Ive even had one shit in my tea whilst walking out to the garage.

Now I love watching birds but enough is enough so I bought meself a nice Spanish Gamo air rifle complete with scope and silencer... its funny Jackdaws are very inteligent you only have to pot one or two and rest feck off to nest in chimneys down the road. A big plus is that there are now more finches, tits, wrens, sparrows and the resident robin of course around the garden. :shooter:

 

[Coggy]

We have a pair of doves that come to feed every day in the back garden..
One is so tame he pecks at the door to be fed and stands there waiting while Mo or I tip the food on the floor
..

Yet another instance of lesser mammals trainig us to do what they want us to do...%$fan

 

[RHINO]

I shot a pigeon with my 12 bore last year and it looked like the kids had been involved in a pillow fight, feathers everywhere but i never did find any flesh ya see, thats what happens when they're only 15 feet away from the barrell

I'm taking my mum to Northwich next Saturday to do some falconry which i arranged via a red letter day, i'll not shoot that, i like birds of prey. :yo:

 

[duncan]

we have loads of those 'fat balls' /QUOTE]

 

[duncan]

Yet another instance of lesser mammals trainig us to do what they want us to do...%$fan

as a Doctor you should know birds are not mammals w;;v

 

[Stevebrooke]

We Ive even had one shit in my tea whilst walking out to the garage.

Someone once asked me what I'd do if a bird shit on my head.

I said I'd chuck her out.

 

[derek kelly]

Someone once asked me what I'd do if a bird shit on my head.

I said I'd chuck her out.

Steve, Knowing that you are a bit of a twitcher/Ornithologist I thought sensible answer, how wrong I was

 

[Stevebrooke]

Steve, Knowing that you are a bit of a twitcher/Ornithologist I thought sensible answer, how wrong I was

Yep, not often you're right is it? :neenaw:

Anyway, I stopped all that ornithology nonsense a few years ago. The only bird I keep my eye on these days is my Blackbird. :bow: