borb sex followed by a romantic meal 😘

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a pair of Eurasian Collared Doves eating seeds from my hand WT7

but it's not just #pigeons who come up to me hoping i have seeds 😁💙

here are a couple of the Eurasian Collared Doves that come up to me seeking seeds💙

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"Three birds—likely Eurasian collared doves—perch solemnly on the bare, skeletal branches of a leafless tree. The photograph is rendered in black and white, stripping away color to reveal the stark drama of form, shadow, and silence. Each dove is positioned at a different height and angle, as if marking separate stations in a quiet vigil. Their bodies are slightly hunched, feathers puffed against the chill, suggesting a shared anticipation—perhaps of an approaching storm, or the weight of seasonal change. The tree itself is a lattice of thin, reaching limbs, mostly stripped of leaves, with only a few clinging remnants. These branches stretch upward and outward like open arms or antennae, scanning the sky for signs. The background is a pale, overcast sky—blank and luminous—casting the birds and branches into sharp silhouette. There’s no visible horizon, no ground, no distraction. Just the geometry of survival and stillness. The birds do not face each other. Each seems to be looking outward, as if guarding a different quadrant of the sky. Their postures evoke quiet endurance, a kind of feathered stoicism. The absence of color heightens the emotional resonance: this is not a cheerful scene, but a contemplative one. It feels like a moment suspended in time—between weather systems, between migrations, between thresholds. The watermark in the bottom right corner reads “Swede’s Photographs,” anchoring the image in authorship but not intruding on its solemnity." - Microsoft Copilot

Hunkered Down

Late on Thanksgiving Day, in a quiet Georgia town, I spotted three Eurasian collared doves ...

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Black and white dove appears to kiss his mate.

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Eurasian Collared Dove couple high in palm tree staring down at me.

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"If you feed us some seeds, we won't poop on your car."
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