Thanks to Christine, I believe we have solved the curious incident of the doves in the day-time… What I thought might have been turtle doves turned out to be laughing doves. See this:
The neat thing about this is, according to Wikipedia, other names for this dove include the laughing turtle dove, so it could be considered a bit of both. I didn’t hear my pair laughing, they were too busy looking for dropped crisps and suchlike. Anyway, good to have found out what they are/were. And now for a random photograph taken from above the ‘mousecastle’ last October.
I was up there for a walk with Harry, so he could show me the ruins of an old settlement or farm he’d found not far from the start of the Ag Marina path. We came across an old gun emplacement and a piece of flattened ground. I assume flattened by man and something to do with the last war. We started talking about field walking and archaeology, and I suggested we walked the flat ground to see if there was anything of interest there, and would you know it? Within a few seconds, he’d found a WWII bullet shell stamped in Greek and with the date, 1944. Just think, that had been lying there all that time, unfound, until that moment. Needless to say, it’s in his special cabinet with the Titanic model and other mementoes of growing up. There’s also this cave up there, but whoever uses it and whatever they use it for… they need to clear up after themselves.
