We've been getting a lot of band-tailed pigeons at the feeders. For people who haven't experienced them, they are huge, just a bit smaller than a crow, with a wingspan about twice that of a rock dove (i.e. city pigeon). And they travel in flocks.

Here's a flock taking off from the back yard. I think I count 33 in that photo.

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