South Bruce Peninsular - First Tourists - Comments

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bub — Sat, 01 May 2004 19:48:03 -0400

Those look like mourning Doves, Gary..mind you well fed ones:)I believe they are one of the few birds that mate for life.this is another coupleThey have a haunting call when they lose their better half.

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garym — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:36:45 -0400

Hard to say how big -- I took this picture by jamming my Kodak DC into one side of my low-power binoculars while I tried to focus and aim in the other, and also shot from within my office through a not-really-very-clean window, so it's not the best photo; seems to me they'd be a good candidate size for small doves (considering that pidgeons are a kind of dove, and these two were larger than most birds around here (hard to tell with their overcoats on) but smaller than pidgeons.

The battleship-grey of their plumage is pretty accurate, and while I only caught one glimpse, I _think_ the one on the left had a bit of bright blue/green on the underside of the beak, but I couldn't be certain about that.

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They look like doves to be.

KeeMay — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:39:25 -0400

They look like doves to be. How big were they?

First Tourists

garym — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:02:25 -0400

One of my favourite features of living year-round on the beach is watching those who pass through our midst each year, and while I've told you about the traveller seen on down the road, this time, it's in my own backyard. Literally.

Ok, I am a little off the beaten path so news gets to me last around here, but another sign of an awakening beach, I snapped this photo of these two tourists, two I hadn't seen before, sitting in the chill wind of the +2C today, bundled up in their burley overcoats -- the one on the right is practically disappearing into the folds of it!

Cheer up folks, Sue tells me we're forecast for 21C any day now ... honest.

So -- can anyone tell me about these two? They looked like two New York City bargain hunters waiting for a cross-town bus sitting in their grey flannels, taking an occasional break from their private thoughts to share a syllable or two. Likely common as borcht too, but if I have ever seen them before, I've never seen them tucked and fluffed quite like this!
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