Bar Shouldered Doves

Yesterday I was driving around in the rain, which was meant to be a few showers in the morning but turned to solid downpours by the arvo, looking for birds...and wondering to myself what do birds do in the rain??

There was not a bird in sight all around town and on the way home I doggedly turned down a side road next to a creek and on my favourite tree were the only birds that love to be wet!!!!  So I drove  further along to turn around and started doing some landscape shots....dodging the massive raindrops ..... then I turned around after I finished to get back in the car and there sitting ion the powerlines above me ...staring at me all the time.... were at least 8 bar shouldered doves!  never before have i seen one out in the open on a power line .... let alone this many  sitting out in the rain
I had a very long lens on so I couldnt catch them all in the frame but , these terrible shots against the white sky but I just had to take them to prove I saw the event!!

I carried on up the road to capture the water birds.....  determined to get a shot under the terrible conditions .... still haven't edited them yet but it cost me a slip over in a very muddy puddle so they had better be worth it