Coo !

I was watching this wood pigeon cooing on a neighbour's roof, when I realised, for the first time, that it coos with its beak shut.

There are two pigeons common around Thornbury, 

the big fat wood pigeon who coos in this rhythm:

"big toe's bleeding, My big toe's bleeding, My big toe's bleeding, Hmph!"

Whereas the collared dove, which is smaller and daintier sings:

"United, united, united"

I suppose collared doves all come from Manchester.

Photo: John Harding BTO