Sacha wrote:

Does anyone know why wood pigeons lie down in the grass on our lawn?
We've seen several of them do it but can't say we've noticed it
particularly before this year. It doesn't seem to matter whether the
grass has just been cut or not, nor whether it's rained or is dry.
They're alone when they do it and often remain stationary for several
minutes. We haven't noticed that the collared doves do it, only the
wood pigeons, it seems.
According to the expert on uk.rec.birdwatching some birds do sunbathe.

His answer to my question as to whether they do sunbathe was:

"Yes. A paper in British Birds in 1969 on sunbathing in birds listed
over 170 species of 48 families across the world, with a couple of dozen
species in the pigeon/dove family, including Woodpigeon."

So we can only assume that in the absence of any ants, they must have
been sunbathing.

Peter


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He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see
that, if not actually disgruntled he was far from being gruntled.
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