Mourning Dove

[littlemissmartypants]

Photo credit:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sqrphoto/4622713395/

Mourning dove call
https://www.bird-sounds.net/mourning-dove/

It's so nice to be able to listen to the lovely calls every morning. I don't know how many I have been blessed with here on the farm but I can hear them from different directions as I move around the house. There's something very sweet and peaceful about the sound.

Have you ever heard the call of a Mourning dove? Where were you?

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[TommieMommy]

1. Oh yes 🌞 I have a birdseed dish near my kitchen window. I get lots of doves and cardinals

[littlemissmartypants]

3. ❤️

[Diamond_Dog]

2. The Mourning Dove's call was probably the first bird call I learned as a child.

We had them in our backyard as I recall. They are such lovely birds.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. ❤️

[AllaN01Bear]

5. there is a mourning dove at the cemertary where mom is interred in the cremation wall . love its calls.

sounds like oh heck u, oh heck u.

[Easterncedar]

6. When I first stayed on a farm in Ohio

I was a teen, and i thought there were owls calling!

40 states have seasons for hunting. The federally set limit is 15 a day. I have an article in my hand (print newspaper!) saying 1 million hunters kill altogether 20 million doves in the US every year.

I used to watch them build their nests in the display yard of the plant nursery I worked at in western NY. We’d put “sold” tags on the shrubs they used, to protect them. We could come quite close to see the dove sitting on her nest (she was brave and didn’t move) and then see hatchlings. They grew fast with both parents working all day to feed them. Lovely creatures.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Thank you so much for sharing this, Easterncedar. It's a truly lovely story to share.

Bless you for taking care of them.



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[Easterncedar]

8. Thank you for opening the conversation

[littlemissmartypants]

10. ❤️

[Easterncedar]

9. Their nests are such a loose sparse bunch of twigs

You can’t believe it will hold together, but it does. Clever architectural minimalists!

[electric_blue68]

11. When I lived in a small apartment building on a street in Brooklyn w brownstones, too.

We had a front space with some greenery, and I'd hear them, then see them. Sweet birds.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. ❤️