How widespread are Stock Doves?

[Dan Salter]

for the last 3 or 4 weeks my normally buzzing bird table and feeders has been dead except of course piles of wood pigeon and collared doves....but i have yet to see stock doves in my garden...we have turtle doves on nearby rspb reserves though.

dream bird lists.....i have those but for fear of getting told off again i wont go any further

[nightshade]

There seem to be a few in the somerset area

[colinaj]

I find then secetive & hard to find esp in Summer. Listen out for thier OOO call which is rather sorowful. In suffolk I think they are slowly increaseing.
Caj

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Andy Warne

I might be strange but I keep a list of the birds I've seen in my dreams.
Latest ticks were Puffin and Storm Petrel.

Andy

I regularly dream about penguins - usually my office being stuffed with an infinite number of them

[jennyb]

Originally Posted by eeyore

I regularly dream about penguins - usually my office being stuffed with an infinite number of them

Penguins are very smelly and very noisy, but apart from that cute!

About the stock doves - I have to admit that I had not even heard of them but have now looked them up in my book and will keep an eye open for them around here, since we are surrounded by farmland.

Jenny

[Tornado]

We were lucky enough to have a Stock dove visit our garden daily for almost two years running, we have no idea where he is now as he never found himself a mate. But over the time he visited us we began to appreciate what a beautiful bird they are, with the black eye and shimmering emerald neck patch. I really miss him
Tornado

[Dan Salter]

I guess he is now an "Out of stock" Dove

[John]

Just in case there are those that are not sure what a Stock Dove looks like here is a photo of one I took that is in the Gallery.

John