General Chat

Today OH had to go for a mammogram.

Her appointment was for 1.30pm and she asked me to hang some washing out while she was out, which I duly did.

Whilst doing this domestic chore I heard a thud , as though a bird had flown into a window, which sometimes happens in the garden..

I looked around, couldn't see anything, and carried on hanging out the washing.

I happened to glance into the dinning room window, which looks out onto the area where the washing line is and saw two doves INSIDE the house, hence the bang from earlier :-S

Had to wait for OH to come home to rescue the birds which she did in short order with no damage other than a few missing feathers (from the doves, not OH :-D)

I don't mind them nesting under the carport but I'm blowed if they try to dispossess us of the house :-| :-D :-D

I assume to waited for OH to come home because it was a two person job Allan, or do you not like to deal with birds. How did both of them get in there?

They walked in through the open laundry door :-)

Not a two person job, but as OH feeds them outside they are used to her presence.

I'm afraid that I would have attempted to throw a towel over them which may have caused mayhem :-(

They were quite happy sitting next to our two budgies, and in full view of our sixteen year old cat who must have been considering what may have happened had he been ten years younger :-D

We often get birds knocking themselves out hitting the glass in the French doors across the end of the lounge. There is a window at the opposite end of the lounge to the doors, so it is bright and they must think they can fly straight through. Occasionally one had got in if one of the doors is open. The best thing to do is to close all the curtains apart from the open door to the garden and they fly towards the light

Thank goodness the cat kept them company :-)

The cat's hunting days are well and truly over, he now spends most of the day sleeping :-D :-D

Allan ........... are they the rock doves that I saw in large numbers at my friend's palce in NSW????


Linda .......... we have large windows in our family room, and used to have problems with birds crashing into them. I got some sticker transfers for windows, used quite small bird ones and it has worked perfectly for years.

Sylvia, I think that they are laughing turtle doves, and I'm being serious about the name.

I know that you don't click on links posted on threads, but if you consult Google you will find them.

They seem very common in most areas in the south west yet I can't recall seeing them in Perth, where the common pigeon is the dominant species.

Allan, thank you. I'll Google them.


Hope OH has a good result from her mammogram. I always had a short period of worry until I got the all clear!

Thanks, Sylvia

She was told that she has the breasts of a 30 year old; I wish I could find the rest of that person :-D

Some cysts were found previously but no other problems :-)

Allan .........

great news!

I was once told I had "dirty" breasts, you may imagine what OH thought, and said, about that one!!

It actually is a term they use for dense tissue, which makes it difficult to image :-D


That is a lovely looking dove ................ Wikipedia said they had been introduced into south west WA from sub-Sahara Africa back in the 1890s. I didn't go on to find out why, but could presume for food for humans!

We had mynahs introduced in the Vancouver area from China in the early 1900s by Chinese immigrants because they are a bird that mimics speech and is considered a song bird, so they kept them in cages. By the 1970s there were some small flocks surviving in small segregated areas around Vancouver, but nowhere else.

We live just over 1 block from a major north-south road, and there was a small flock in the first block on the other side of that road when we moved here in 1972. They survived for a number of years, then suddenly disappeared. in the mid-1980s. But the weird thing was that I never saw or heard them on this side of that road. Their territory was that restricted. All the other small flocks, never more than about a dozen birds, seem edto disappear over a period of about 4 years.

Something changed!