What's an Oriental Turtle Dove doing in an Oxfordshire Garden?

[sandyRoe]

Did it fly there all the way from the orient?

[LoftyLottie]

Escapee from a zoo or private collection?

[what..the?]

was reading story earlier and said to the OH if I lived next door I would be saying "Oi come in my kitchen to see it for £2.50" lol

[cupid04]

quite a rarity over here aren't they. If you got one in your garden and let on you'd
have hundreds of twitchers trying to get in your garden!

[sandyRoe]

Birdwatchers, twitchers, are flocking to see it at £5 a look so that's ^^^ not a bad idea...

[cupid04]

Are you going to lay on refreshments?

[sandyRoe]

birds nest soup @ £5 a bowl?

[what..the?]

possibly... you'd have to pay strip joint prices..

[what..the?]

< quickly nips down the printers to get a run of tshirts saying "i've twitched in Oxford" and "on the second day after valentines my true love gave to me just one oriental dove and an over priced birds nest soup"

[wheaten]

It's come to visit my snow bunting.

[treetops1]

Another bloody immigrant.

[starone]

How can you make it stay in your garden long enough to make a profit?

[what..the?]

thats what I thought??? Surly it would fly away at any point, usually I can't get my camera in time to snap a robin before the little B sees me coming and flies off....I could spit at times