I generally don’t find doves to be particularly interesting birds. Perhaps it’s because there are so many of them, and the doves that hang out around here are so gray; however, today I got close enough to a dole of doves to notice they have subtle purple in the gray and blue around their eyes.  They also have nice contrasting stripes of white on their tail feathers and in their wings that are visible when they fly, but I only managed to get a blurry tail of a dove as it flew out of my viewfinder. The dole flew all at once, making my autofocus go crazy trying to decide which one to focus on — by the time the focusing system decided to allow the shutter to release, only a dove’s tail remained in the frame.