Prepare to be shocked....2 posts in one day!! My friend Jennifer, blogs everyday, and I am just amazed by that, I have trouble finding time to get something written once a week....but anyway, this I thought was worthy of an extra post today. =) We have had a nest of mourning doves that we've been watching for a while now. Mourning doves are one of the few species of birds that mate for life. They are very sweet birds, but their nests are terrible. We googled it because it looked so bad, but apparently that's how they make them. Anyway, we have been watching our eggs and in the whirlwind of the last month, see previous update post, we missed a lot. However, yesterday appears to be "pushing out of the nest" day. (or maybe they fell out because it was so crappy. =) ) We found the 2 babies on the ground yesterday afternoon kinda wandering around. The kids were fascinated and wanted to sit on the grass and watch them. Here is a picture of them. 
We have a play set in the back yard, and we finally saw mom and dad bird up on the play set cheering on their children to get to the safe place that they had found for them. It was so sweet. The one bird was pretty brave and flew off right away. The second, was a little more timid and kinda hopped around aimlessly for a long time, over an hour waiting on someone to come and get him. Jim finally got too close and he flew a little bit. He almost skimmed the ground it was so low and he was just not sure of himself. But he eventually got back to his family and hopefully they will find another home away from the neighbor's cats.
No comments:
Post a Comment