I had a dove not sitting or eating or courting today - battling with one of the red-bellied woodpeckers on the feeder, wish I'd snagged a picture of it. The woodpecker poked at the dove with that long beak, then the dove fluffed up and raised his wings up in quite a threatening manner, and the woodpecker took a couple of looks and flew off. The dove looked easily twice the size of the woodpecker when he got his feathers all ruffled.
Those woodpeckers can usually intimidate all the other birds, even the bluejays, but not that dove! Tomorrow, I will have the camera at the ready again, c/w the memory card installed . . .
