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Dove Day Afternoon
Saturday, 15th February 2003, West Yorkshire |
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A
collared dove preens itself on a cold, crisp sunny afternoon.
A pair of them fly in and out of the garden ash tree as I draw. 
Every
time the female returns the male flies to the branch alongside her and
bows his head repeatedly in display. She doesn't seem too impressed and
walks off up the branch.
House
sparrows, feeding on crumbs from the surrounding gardens, are
gathered in one of the tall leggy hawthorns of the hedge around what might
be an old collared dove's nest or an unfinished squirrel's drey.
On
a higher branch a magpie is pecking away at something.
With my binoculars I can make out that it is a chicken drumstick.
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