Let’s deal with birds today, it does no harm just this once…
Not so long ago, as I was standing morningly at the balcony, I noticed moving things near my blind spot. Birds. A couple. Eurasian Collared Doves, or Streptopelia decaocto, more precisely (pict below). Well, at least this was solving the mystery of the morning tomato killers (I was just finding my poor plantlets beheaded day after day at that time). We have a lot of this species in town and woods around. As true as Seeds Aside is biased against vertebrates, I’m naturally keen on any kind. I can start meowing or mooing quite easily, so I decided to try cooing as well. I’m not sure I am the best cooing one ever, but amazingly the birds did notice. See below, the (supposedly) female begin to close the eye, on the other hand the male (just right) immediately did not seem very happy and threw a very inquisitive glance (while it seemed scared less than a minute ago). Was I anthropomorphizing a bit too much? Maybe, but what I’ve read may demonstrate otherwise… (more…)
