Turtle Doves

Just a few photos of the pair of Turtles in our garden today: they made themselves at home, until a blackbird got aggressively territorial and scared them away...

To me, there's something quintessentially satisfying about sharing my garden with these beautiful (and increasingly scarce) birds... Anyone can walk out to Gun Hill (I've done it twice!) but to have these lovely, gentle creatures in my tiny garden for ten years is just a wonderfully satisfying thing...