The doves are nervous early evening and I have seen them scattering when a late predator comes over in the sky. This one was a scary sight.
Yes, I have now seen a few of these early evening incidents and decided to get it on camera to show you.
This is a daily ritual and only the attackers change, as at times it is a pesky Sparrow Hawk that comes in at high speed.
In fact the doves scatter at the appearance of any type of raptor bird.
One day I might even get a shot of a raptor lifting a dove off the peak of the house roof that you will see below.
But for now, come and enjoy the show.
Normally some of the doves sit on the peak of this roof facing different directions to watch for attacks.
Look here below how clever this lot are. They all except the two at the right face in the same direction, but the one at the bottom branch at the right faces in the opposite direction and the one above him faces the sides. So the doves can see in all directions where an attack might come from.
Panic stations as they saw the approaching attacker and they scattered.
The whole lot fly in different directions at high speed to confuse the approaching hawk.
A Superman Pied Crow decided to attack the would be attacker.
But the attacker was wise and simply flew higher up and he disappeared.
And so the doves returned, as they were waiting for the sunset signal to go home.
Finally sunset came and I was lucky to get a flying dove in the face of the sun.
Time for us all to go home and tomorrow the procedure will be repeated.
The raptors know where the doves sit every day and the amazing thing is that the doves don't go to another area. This is their territory and they sit here every day. They are prepared to face their fear every day and this is different from us as humans. If we know that a danger to us will appear every day from a certain direction, I can guarantee you that we will leave from wherever we are to go and stay somewhere else. Unless we are not able to move from where we are for many reasons.
I think that the doves are trying to show us how to face our fears :)
And That's All Friends.
Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera.
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