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This is @danaidhbee coo-ing to you all the way from Scotland in the @featheredfriends @community on @hive.

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Today I was lucky enough to catch some typical Springtime behaviour on camera from these two beautiful birds by my window sill, feeding on the seeds I put out last night.

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I was up at 4:45am this morning (with young baby-as usual) and heard there was a lot of avian activity in the beautiful buzzing spring morning on the Massive Eucalyptus Blue Gum Tree outside in our garden.

I heard the regular bird locals - the blackbirds, all the tits, finches, chiff chaffs, pigeons and the awfully noisy seagulls! And then spotted a small flapping silver blur go past the kitchen window whilst I was filling up my morning coffee cafetière 😘👌🏼 so I went to have a look...

It was a pair of Collared Doves landing on the popular bird perch on the Eucalyptus tree! 🙏😍

Beautiful!... I have never seen them up so close before. They are such lovely but shy and timid creatures, like most birds i guess, but they have a special kind of innocence and charm in their faces and their appearance. They are so small and neat/slim looking, a lot different than the regular Palumba Columbus Wood pigeons I see here.

I spent a long time watching them and I am now able to tell the male and female apart just by the look in their eye, the size of the neck area and beak, and the way she was brooding in an old nest site in the tree, it makes a nice change.

(The female has a soft look in her face, slightly smaller neck and beak than the male, and looks just that little prettier in the eyes and face.)

(The male is quite similar except he has a slightly larger chest, back, throat,and beak, possibly for making his mating calls for longer during breeding season and possibly collecting more sticks whilst she is brooding on the nest and keeping eggs warm.

https://youtube.com/shorts/20nJFQl4fe4?feature=share

I noticed the female checking out the old Pigeons nest right outside our kitchen window - that had failed due to multiple ( ) Magpie robberies making the Pigeons abandon it. I tried to document a lot of the progress, but woke up one morning and didn't see a mother sitting there for a few hours, and then spotted the egg had been ripped open and eaten.

But out of that unfortunate event came this lovely little lady and her partner to scope it out for a little while, exciting!

https://youtube.com/shorts/-KHE4UxFMBk?feature=share

They spent around 20 minutes pretending this was their nest until the mourning Pigeon mother who has returned regularly on most days to the nest site since the robbery, she's been making lots of noises and brooding, she must have been sad. The mourning pigeon mother had came back to coo the Doves away from her grieving loss and previous home.

Animals certainly feel emotions like us. I have watched the Pigeon, and the look in her eye that I've witnessed when she comes back to the nest - to me - definitely looks like she had been mourning and grieving at the nest site of her "what-could-have-been chick."

The Collared Doves then came to my window sill for a good while to feast on some of my seeds. I hope they have a nest nearby, I would love to see them return daily, Especially with a chick!

• Can you tell the difference between the male and female? :)

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