Who has Mourning Doves?

[pokerfan]

Hearing them right now. The sun doesn't set for at least another hour and I can hear them. So peaceful...

(I speak Dove and can provide a translation... He says it's Saturday night and he wants to get laid.)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. I have some in the woods around the house. Always did like that sound. n/t

[In_The_Wind]

2. I have a flock of Diamond Doves inside and lots of Mourning Doves outside.

My flock coos all night.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. We get a family of them every year.

[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

They're very friendly. These two juveniles were sitting about 4' away from me the other day.

[pokerfan]

6. Nice pics!

Very cool.

[handmade34]

4. everyday

love them... when not making noise, they're walking around my yard looking for something...






also have lots of loons on the lake across the road... very haunting in the evening

[hopemountain]

10. are the malamutes echoing the loons?

or are the loons echoing the malamutes? very special. thank you for sharing.

[In_The_Wind]

11. The reservoir near my home has loons. I love hearing them when I drive over.

[onestepforward]

5. I have many year round.

This year, I also have some white-winged doves.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

7. There are 2 rock Doves that call the tree right outside home.

My SO has taken a shine to them due to them having to fight off the pidgens for the food my upstairs neighbor puts out.

He has decided to take action on there behave. He has got a spray bottle on the ready, the Rock Doves now just come and taps on the window and There goes Dave with the bottle.

Pigeons don't stick around long. I have watch the Doves just look like they are about to tap and the Pigeons run. They do not know if Dave is here or not, but they don't chance it!

[pokerfan]

8. "Bird brains" is a misnomer

We had a pair of magpies who would work in tandem to steal dog food from our garage. One of them would enter through the pet door and start shoveling pellets under the big roll-up doors in the front where his partner-in-crime would ferry them to a tree.

[csziggy]

23. Pigeons are Rock Doves - do you mean Ground Doves?

Ground Doves: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Ground-Dove/lifehistory

Rock Doves/Pigeons: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rock_Pigeon/id

[Lady Freedom Returns]

25. These two are way smaller than the big old pigeons and they

blend in with the rocks out side that they use here instead grass. They are forever getting picked on by the Pigeons. That is till that Marine of mine decided to even the odds.

[csziggy]

30. The ground doves are much smaller than the mourning doves or pigeons

And the feathers on their breasts give a scaled look. When they fly, the undersides of their wings show a dark reddish color. Other than that, they are the same color as the mourning doves. When I first saw them, I thought they were baby mourning doves since the mourning doves get along with them fine.

Tell that Marine to keep picking on the pigeons - they are not native to North America and really shouldn't be here!

[hopemountain]

9. a beautiful sound

evenings i make a point to shut off all electronics to sit out under the trees just to hear the doves.
a very nice recording.

[femmocrat]

12. We have a nest in a spruce tree behind the house.

I see the mama and papa bird going in and out of the branches.

We have them year-round. They are very gentle, but are also favorites of the hawks unfortunately.

[AngryOldDem]

28. There's a nest on the ledge outside of my boss's window.

Quite the little family. The mother had three in the nest earlier in the spring; now she's back sitting on some more little ones. We've not seen Dad.

[OrwellwasRight]

13. I get them periodically near my apt. in DC

Love them! Have always been calmed by their song. I hear fewer here than back him in So Cal, so I am ever more grateful when they do stop by to sing.

On the other hand, we have fireflies here. And they make my heart skip a beat when I see them. There are no such things in SoCal, so I never saw my first one till I was in my 30s. When I see them, I feel awed, like a child. I hope that never goes away.

[pintobean]

14. We have a lot of them in St. Louis.

Years ago, a pair built a nest under one of our awnings. It didn't work out to well for them because they built it in the corner of a half inch wide brace. Every time it got windy, the nest would end up on the ground, and they'd start over in the same spot. After this happened a few times, I screwed a brass ashtray to the brace. That worked out quite well for them and they come back every year to nest there. My wife loves to pull up the shade and watch them raise their young from a few feet away. They drive the cats nuts, though.

[a kennedy]

15. and to think that in Wisconsin they have a DOVE SHOOT!!!

these beautiful birds, and they can now be hunted and killed. to add the website for info. http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/hunt/dove.html

[pokerfan]

18. Oh, its a popular gamebird

The number of individual Mourning Doves is estimated to be approximately 475 million. The large population and its vast range explain why the Mourning Dove is considered to be of least concern, meaning that the species is not at immediate risk. As a gamebird, the Mourning Dove is well-managed, with more than 20 million (and up to 40–70 million) shot by hunters each year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning_Dove#Conservation_status

And check out this little bit of irony:

The Eastern Mourning Dove (Z. m. carolinensis) is Wisconsin's official symbol of peace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning_Dove#As_a_symbol_and_in_the_arts

[GoCubsGo]

16. Most of us do.

They are pretty widespread in the Lower 48. The Eurasian collared doves moved into my area a little over a decade ago. They look like over-sized, pale mourning doves, and their coo is similar. I like the mourning dove's call better.

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. They're quite common here in Tucson.

.
.
.
Sunday mornings out on the balcony (the veranda, I swan) here when there's no street traffic, the
only sounds you hear are mourning doves, small birdsong and cicadas.
.
It's beautiful.
.
.
.

[Sanity Claws]

19. I generally see them in the morning

I guess that makes them Morning Mourning Doves

[NJCher]

20. they frequent my birdfeeder

Even though they are ground feeders.

I love having them around. I think their coloring is so pretty.


Cher

[womanofthehills]

21. They just about live in my bird feeders & I love it

If I don't put food out for them, they get into my chicken enclosure and can't figure out how to get out. All the other birds can fly in and out but the doves can't. Sometimes, I have to go in with a net to get them out. Coo coo ..............

[csziggy]

22. They hang out just under my window

Or in the branches of the oak tree just a few more feet away.

We also get the little ground doves that look like little mourning doves with shorter tails:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Ground-Dove/lifehistory

[TuxedoKat]

24. I have quite a few in my yard

Love them but I'd trade some of them for two Mockingbirds. I really miss hearing their song.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. "Rain crows" - that's what my dad called them.

Supposedly their calls predict rain. Hoo-OOO-oo, hoo, hoo-hoo.

[LiberalElite]

27. WOW wonderful view -

I could hear them when I lived in Manhattan in the Upper East Side, but where I live now they're drowned out by the traffic.

[elleng]

29. Saw one in front of house this morning,

but didn't hear it. Will listen now!