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"Got My Eye On You"


"Got My Eye On You"

Hundreds of pigeons in the fields so what makes the odd woody decide to use your garden as a daily stop without telling his mates.



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good one!

19 Oct, 2011

 

Cheers Michaella

19 Oct, 2011

 

:)))

20 Oct, 2011

 

He was watching you from afar,Tommy,and just waiting his chance!

25 Oct, 2011

 

We net the top of our Chickens yard else the Wood pigeons are down like a shot pinching their food...

25 Oct, 2011

 

Had one woody visit me for a whole year. The poor thing use to always hang with it head leaning to the right. After about two months it started to visit with a mate. Then I brought a camera with a stronger zoom.
I took a photo of the woody's leaning head and could see that it's right eye was missing. It looked like a air rifle slug pellet embedded into the eye. It was well into the breeding season and I knew this was a female woody. I know that it could have been in pain but I thought if it was put out of it's misery but reasoned that there could be a couple of squabs in the nest. Kill her and two squabs starve to death. I have not seen her or her mate of late so perhaps she is out of her misery.

25 Oct, 2011

 

oh what a shame....:((( Still in nature, it tends to sort itself out for the best...

26 Oct, 2011

 

Nature seems to balance the goods and bads

3 Nov, 2011




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