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Passing the Test

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I spent a pleasant hour or so in the late afternoon messing about with my new Canon lens and extenders, just trying to get feel for the combinations and testing out the quality of the images. As part of the process I focused on a pair of courting Collared Doves, the regular bowing, scraping, tale fanning and so forth were soon superseeded by several bouts of 'courtship feeding', with the female either taking regurgitated seeds or possibly 'crop milk' from the male. This was obviously a good sign as far as the female was concerned as she was soon allowing the male to copulate. 'Payment in kind'? Clearly he passed muster, just like my new lenses.