Story of Day and Night.

A pair of doves lives near my birdfeeder

year after year.

The male will listen to his name: DAY

and his pretty wife

is called NIGHT.

Day is great protector of his territory which mainly is the feeder and Night is looking like and obedient female, but just looking so.

Usually they come together,

eating a lot till there is no room

for more food.

Day is chasing the other doves away, but because some

seeds fall on the ground

the chased aways also can feed.

Day and Night loves to take a sunbath

after the stomac is full.

But Day's

hormons make him get up:

trying to make love

to Night.

So starts the chase

around and around

because Night has no

intention to give in

to Day's ardent desire!

Finally out of breath Day will calm down

and Night will speak to him gently:

"Look Day: there are just so many doves!

You are busy in your eating time

to chase them away

to protect the food

for your self and me."

Day was wondering what Night is trying to say,

because his head was only

able to think of

making love.

Night looked at him and said:

" There is a limit to everything on Earth!

When there are too many doves

the humans will come

with their guns

and kill

and kill the doves."

Night with tears in her eyes

finally said:

"Do you know about the PASSEGER PIGEONS!?

From billions to none!

A species was extinct

because the humans killed them all."

And so the control is in Night's wisdom:

The little obedient looking wife

knows better

how to keep control

for a happy life.

The photograph is by courtesy of Argo, the British photografer

who took the picture of a pair

of Ringneck Doves at early

Spring 2010.