what a choky birb
I love Doves, they're just chillin walking around, foraging
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I'm looking forward to spring when the mourning doves come back to nest in our planters that hang off the patio rails. The babies are cute and the parents are really chill even with people moving around on the patio.
mourning doves are my favorite calls :)
Mourning doves are dumb as bricks though. We have an open doggy door (had to remove the flap because the chihuahua couldn't push it open) and every now and again a small bird gets trapped in our patio. It's almost always a mourning dove.
Robins, cardinals, orange-beaked birds (forget the name), and boat-tailed grackles can get out pretty fast on their own if I just open a door and shoo them around for a bit. Mourning doves will bloody themselves trying to get out through the screen over and over again until I catch them with my hands (which I've done at least six times now).
They're a staple food for the ospreys, eagles, red tailed hawks, and cooper's hawks though. I find bunches of their bloody feathers in the yard all the time 🤷
I've only recently figured out that their calls are not in fact owls I cannot see.
I found that out a few years ago when I moved here. Never knew I was surrounded by mourning doves in the bigger city that I grew up in. I also thought they were owls too.