I'm glad he is off to find his friends.
We have lots of collared doves in our area, we have nicknamed them traffic control doves because they tend to wander about in the lanes as you approach in the car so you have to slow down and wait for them to decide in which direction they are going to saunter off. The farmworkers are not so considerate to them, I was following a huge tractor and trailer which was only a couple of feet narrower than the hedges on either side of the road. Suddenly a dove shot up vertically about twenty feet in the gap between the trailer and the hedge. Amazing the amount of lift they can get from their wings.