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Kimmo Ollikainen

Kimmo Ollikainen

Posted: 01 Dec 2021

Taken: 18 Jun 2020

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Squirrel Forest

Squirrel Forest
The view from our upstairs balcony a bit over year ago. Squirrel Forest is my own name to the place where I can see my friends Osku and Riku. They happily climb up my legs to see if I have some peanuts for them. There are also some Crowned Doves, and lots of other birds.

Jenny McIntyre, Janet Brien have particularly liked this photo

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 Kimmo Ollikainen
Kimmo Ollikainen
After a further investigation I found it's called Common wood pigeon in English. Beautiful bird anyway, and nowadays more common in urban areas. It's old Finnish name was Toukomettinen.
2 years ago.
 Kimmo Ollikainen
Kimmo Ollikainen
Hah! Those Crowned doves live in New Guinea ;-)
And Sepelkyyhky, its old name was Toukomettinen.
2 years ago.
 Jenny McIntyre
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Hieno kuva tästä metsästä - tässä sanotaan, että jos pensaissa ja puissa on tavallista enemmän marjoja, se tarkoittaa yleensä ankarampaa talvea. Eläimet voivat syödä enemmän marjoja pelastaakseen ne.
2 years ago.
 Janet Brien
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Ohhh, and look what I found! A time lapse collage of a Common Wood Pigeon hatching! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wood_pigeon#/media/File:WoodPigeonHatching.jpg

In regards to naming any animal "Common", I think it's pretty rude because the natural assumption is that it's nothing special. Nothing could be further from the truth! :)
2 years ago.
 Kimmo Ollikainen
Kimmo Ollikainen
Jenny, that "common" belief of the berries and the forthcoming winter is just a common belief. The trees don't know how it will be after few months. They just follow their perennial periodicity. If it happens to be a rest period to berry carrying trees and a harsh winter at the same time, the animals starve.
2 years ago.

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