> On 16 June 2019 at 18:56 John <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > > On 6/16/2019 13:37:47, Larry Colen wrote: > > > > > > John wrote on 6/16/19 10:33 AM: > >> It's not a pigeon, and both of them look like cardboard cutouts. > > > > If not a pigeon, what is it? > > > > Looks like a Eurasian Collared-Dove. They're an invasive species in Texas & > the > Southeastern U.S., although they have been spotted as far west as Oregon. > > https://www.texasinvasives.org/animal_database/detail.php?symbol=22 > > Pigeons (what we call pigeons here in the U.S.) are doves, but not all doves > are > pigeons. > It (the species) invaded the UK in the early 50s. By 1972 it was where I lived halfway up England, at which point I moved 200 miles north. It took until the mid 1990s to reach me and it is ubiquitous now. I saw them in Edinburgh, 150 miles north, earlier this year so the spread appears to be slowing. The damned things never shut up. > > > > >> > >> On 6/15/2019 19:51:27, Larry Colen wrote: > >>> There's something I like about this pigeon on a pole, does it work better > >>> in > >>> Black and White: > >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/48069291823/in/album-72157709097922868/ > >>> > >>> or Color?: > >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/48069350557/in/album-72157709097922868/ > >>> > >>> Or do they both suck? I can rarely tell with my own photos. > >>>
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