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I took quite a few images of this male Mourning Dove perched on this gnarly old fence post before I decided to leave him and head to other canyons that I wanted to explore that morning. I thanked the dove, turned on my Jeep and headed down the bumpy road feeling grateful that he stuck around long enough for me to take these images.
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Many an hour has been spent beside a pond or along the edge of a plowed field awaiting the swift arrival of this quick and elusive game bird. Traditions have been built on dove hunts past and dreams are made of dove hunts future.
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Oklahoma has three species of dove that can be harvested during the season. Mourning, white-winged, and Eurasian collared-dove maybe included in your bag limit. Be sure to check out bag limits and rules applying to each of these species before going out in the field.
The mourning dove is a streamlined plump bird with a small head. It has a long, pointed tail with a brownish back flecked with black spots and the breast is tan to light rose. The white-edged tail feathers are visible when it spreads its tail. The feet and legs are light red to light purple.
This nest is in an orchid pot just outside our dining room window, in front of our front door.
The doves don't seem to be disturbed by our coming and going, but we are careful not to get too close. We anxiously await the hatchlings!
I have been noticing this one mourning dove hanging around my house a lot recently. Then I found that it is staying in my Hosta garden right off my front porch.
I have not found a nest for this one yet, but I have noticed that there is a male and female pair. So babies should be coming very soon.
The one bird that hangs around the most is very docile. It has let me get within inches of it, so I got some very good pictures along with this.
I think the one that stays around is the female because it has gotten very plump, hopefully with eggs, and she is much smaller than the other.
Well that's all for now, I will put more updates on this pair as soon as I get them.
Doves In Petunia Basket
A pair of doves commandeered my petunia basket before I planted this year's wave petunias. They are sharing incubating the two eggs. We've watched the shift change several times.
One bird on the nest is joined by the other, then the first leaves.
We await the hatching of the 2 young ones.
Interestingly, they never built a nest, just laid their eggs in the hanging basket!
I noticed a mourning dove in my hanging planter a while back but did not pay any attention to it - just thought it was finding something to eat. The basket hangs from the eave of my sunroom and is fairly well shaded. Well I now know it was building a nest in the basket.
Yesterday morning I was out there and the dove was sitting in the planter again and to my astonishment, there were two baby dove. Mama sat for quite a while but left and was gone a long time - I checked later at night and she still wasn't back, leaving those poor babies on their own. I was afraid maybe I had scared her off. However, this morning she was back and has been there most of the morning.
Does anyone know how old they are before they try to fly - they are only about 6 inches long right now but they do have feathers, eyes open and seem to be moving around.
Mama sometimes sits on top of them. She had one wing held out over them and I guess she was protecting them from the sun. Sometimes she perches on the side of the basket and I assume she is feeding them then.
This is the first time I have had nesting dove and so know very little about them and would appreciate any information anyone can give me. I hope they come back every year. This has been an incredible experience.
I hope I get to see them fly away. I have posted pictures of the two babies - aren't they precious.
This past February I discovered that we had mourning doves in our backyard, which has some natural forest and lots of trees.
Over the years I have often heard the soft hoo-hooing of a bird, and thinking it was an owl, I really only determined these to be mourning doves this winter when I noticed a group of 4 soft grey, plump birds sunning themselves on a warm winter day and eating on the natural forest floor just behind our home.
I have since then seen these birds more regularly, and a pair has occasionally been seen in my front pine tree.
Lately I am not seeing them very often, and they are quiet since they have been nesting and most likely taking turns on the nest.
I also just learned that they may have several different broods in a season. Yesterday I noticed one nesting in the wisteria of the gardens outside my workplace.
Apparently their numbers are increasing in Nova Scotia, which is nice to know.
Hanging right by my front door, next to a railing, and I have 2 cats. One was sleeping in her bed right under the basket, with the mourning dove sitting on her eggs.
Now that the eggs have hatched, I'm trying to keep the cats in!
We have a nesting dove with one hatched egg and one soon to be hatched.
She was in our railing box for 2 weeks, however, hurricane Irene was hitting tonight, so we moved the box back to the corner of the porch where it would be protected.
She flew off, but did return to the nest-she is still there and the wind and rain is very strong. You can see her brown head and eye through the foliage.
She did let me water every evening for two weeks, so I was hoping she wouldn't abandon the nest when it was moved.
Hopefully, tomorrow morning the other egg will be hatched.
I was watering my hanging flower pot last week and didn't notice there was a dove sitting in the pot until I had completely soaked the plant and the bird!
Once I noticed it was there, I was surprised it hadn't flown off and was concerned it was ill.
I had my husband check it out, (he's large) and the bird got frightened and flew away.
At least then I knew the dove was healthy.
I researched the nesting/habits of doves on-line to know what to expect.
I am really enjoying watching this process; they're such sweet, peaceful birds.
A Mourning Dove has been nesting in out Rhododendron bush for four days. We discovered her when we heard a blue jay bothering her.
She is not intimidated by us at all even when stand at the bush and look through the leaves to see her. Today I can see the small wing of her first young dove born.
Our 3 Coonhounds, all rescued, alerted us to a Mourning Dove nest in our backyard. We live on Long Island, New York.
I looked up in a tree, not too high and saw the Dove. The nest looks so small.
I took several pictures. My dogs are not howling near her anymore.
Guess they got used to her being here. I went back out toward evening and could swear there was another Dove there!
I just went online to find this is true. The male and female both sit on the eggs. How great to see they share this wonderful event.
It was interesting to read about them. We will be looking for the young ones soon.
Here is my picture.
Carol
This is the second season for my Mourning Doves here on my front porch in the hanging basket.
The doves started coming to the basket at the end of January but no eggs for some time. We had quite a cold and snowy winter here in Virginia Beach!!
One day I climbed my ladder to peer into the basket only to see a single egg.
Soon after Mama was always in the nest so expected that she was incubating but that lasted way too long!
Yesterday, I got the ladder out and found 2 young chicks and an egg. I expect the chicks will fledge in about a week, but what is that lonely egg doing there??
All sorts of questions arise; such as, is this the first lonely egg that is no longer viable or is this the beginning of a new clutch? What are your thoughts??
We had a store bought nest under the covered part of our deck and it has been there since we bought the house - about 6 years ago.
Just this year we noticed doves sitting in it and adding nesting material. They proceeded to do shift change approximately every 12 hours and lo and behold we saw babies about 4 weeks later.
They grew and flew and as soon as they left the parents were preening and mating again.
The sat on a second set of eggs and brought them to full size and they grew and flew. The second set hung around our garden area for at least 2 weeks.
Again the parents preened and mated almost immediately and are sitting again - third time.
It's great to watch.
It was just a few weeks ago on a frigid winter's day when I noticed my dove couple on the rim of the hanging basket at my front porch.
The basket has been there since last summer when they last had their 3rd brood.
They appear at the basket every morning and then disappear for the remainder of the day.
This evening I peered into the basket, sadly no eggs. They have started to line the basket with pine needles so expect they will occupy when the eggs are laid.