Our collared dove

We have a pair of collared doves nesting in the barn. Here the male is balancing on the electricity wires. His other favourite spot is our chimney where the volume of his coo coo-ing sounds enormous (as does his wife's when she calls from her nest inside the barn). I walk nearby very quietly and she watches me with an intense beady gaze.

Apparently the birds first came here from the Balkans in 1955.

Note new phone wire beneath.