Now the morning wakes
to a silent chorus
bird song gone
the blackbird
sits
quietly
alone
without a care
while
just one
pigeon
in some far off tree
barely heard now
breaks into a moan ~ Gill McGrath© August 15
[ a silence fills the first morning air now that territorial lines are less defined and bird families are mostly grown… although they still gather in large numbers all day, for the fast food waiting for them at their usual eating places]
Gill McGrath 
Hey Gill .. Oh such lovely pics. Birds make the best models .. Do pigeons moan?
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hi Julie! I think they think they are singing they dont mean to moan,they just go on a bit!!!especially noticeable as a continuous background noise when the other birds play it down. xxxx
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Beautiful shots Gill, I didn’t know that about pigeons…sweet.
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Hi Holly. The pigeons are singing their loudest right now!
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how very sweet!
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The second picture with its purple tune gives an impression of heat and drought . The bird , lonely, are “moaning ” perhaps because they are hungtry.
Love ❤
Michel
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the pigeons certainly ask for more food…. but they can’t be hungry….they are well fed…. perhaps a little greedy?
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Good pics and good thoughts, my Dear Gill! In the first shot, the birds seem to be experimenting with their formation! Rather unusual, and hence a good capture. …Regards. 🙂
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yes, the wind has changed…. still summer; but the birds seem to know its time to move on soon! 🙂 🙂
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Is the smoke from burning stubble or autumn leaves.Very bucolic.
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Looks like smoke but there are a couple of places; that being one of them at the side of a cow field….. where you can see the mist roll…. when the weather changes from cold to warm….. soon disappears.
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My first thought on seeing the photo of the “blackbird” was “crow” as we have millions of them in my part of town…. but after checking with Wikipedia I see they are actually two distinctly different birds.. the blackbird is much smaller than a crow…. which is obviously why four and twenty of them would fit into a pie!
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