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Siesta
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Copyright: Henryk Sadura (benkrut) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 224 W: 112 N: 737] (3369)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-08-08
Categories: Daily Life, Decisive Moment
Camera: Canon XT 350D, Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/400 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Birds on Power Lines [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2006-08-09 0:52
Viewed: 415
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Taken on Grand Ave, Chicago. Several times they got scared but after some time they were returning to the same position.

The doves are the 308 species of near passerine birds in the order Columbiformes. The terms dove and pigeon are used interchangeably, although smaller species are more likely to be called doves.
The species commonly referred to just as the "pigeon" is the feral Rock Pigeon.
Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills with a fleshy cere.
The usually flimsy nests are made of sticks, and the two white eggs are incubated by both sexes. Doves feed on seeds, fruit and other soft plantstuff. Unlike most other birds, (but see flamingo), the doves and pigeons produce "crop milk", which is secreted by a sloughing of fluid-filled cells from the lining of the crop. Both sexes produce this highly nutritious substance to feed to the young.
This family occurs worldwide, but the greatest variety is in the Indomalaya and Australasia ecozones. It is related to the extinct dodos. The young doves and pigeons are called "squabs". A person who keeps pigeons is called a "pigeon fancier".
- info taken from wikipedia
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Hi Henryk
Beautifull cropping around this line of birds.
It's perfectly framed.
Bertrand

Nice shot Benk.
I like it.
regards.
DT.

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  • parbo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1691 W: 15 N: 1901] (6909)
  • [2006-08-11 21:19]

Hello Henryk,

This is a great moment with all pigeons on line without any action ;) I like your clever framing too. Congratulations

Best Regards,

Parbo

Very good composition, with that dynamic diagonal line. And nice focused.

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