I have stated it often, I easily get distracted by nature, so many times I have been out to take pictures of one thing and something else catches my attention and I start going after it. This was the case on an another mixed day this fall. Winter in the morning and fall in the afternoon. I was exploring the Bow Valley, walking into a small open field toward a herd of elk on the opposite side. As I was walking past a tree, a bird flew out of it right over my head, to a bigger tree to the left. On that dead spruce tree were not one, but four Eurasian Collard Doves. Birds I was not expecting to see mid-October in the Rockies. I was about 30 to 40 meters away, quickly took the picture of all four and started to look for a better picture. The top dove in this picture helped out, it started to get the other dove off the branch they were sharing. I took two steps to the right to isolate them, with Sulphur Mtn in the background with snow patches helped to make the image complete.
