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your 9/14 blog - what is that dove doing?

I have never seen a dove - or any bird - do that in a birdbath.  If it was on the ground I would maybe think it was some sort of anting?  But in the birdbath?  When you first saw it, did you think the bird was dying?  Or ill?  But it did fly off.  I hope other people reply to this with more ideas than I have!  I would like to know what this Dove was doing.  John