Thursday, March 5, 2009

Mating dance


AMOROUS MOURNING DOVES, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, MARCH 4, 2009

Pentax K10D
Sigma APO 135-400 at 400mm
1/500 sec. f9.5
ISO 1600

The season's first foray onto the backyard deck with the big Sigma found the local mourning doves carrying on as if spring had already arrived. The male seemed eager and persistent, but the female wasn't having any of it, not just yet.

1 comment:

mo_inoh said...

i am soo glad to see spring on its way. I have had about enough of winter