Crested Pigeon (Four Photos)

This is a Crested pigeon, (Ocyphaps lophotes), which I photographed up in Rutherglen in Victoria.

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The first one is not the clearest of shots but I liked that I caught it in flight.

When I first spotted this Crested pigeon it was asleep on a park bench (times are hard for the birds). It woke up just as I was taking this shot.

It then sauntered along to the end of the bench, looked down to where it's companion was foraging around and then sat watching wondering whether to jump down or go back to sleep.

...then off it went (see first shot) down to the grass.

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