Mourning Dove Pics

As I said in the last post, my mom took pictures of the mourning doves.  Here they are!

They're so pretty!

Birds!

This isn't really related to the rabbits. But, there's a bird's nest on our back porch!


A few weeks ago, we discovered a nest on top of one of the columns on our back porch. We didn't see the birds, but my mom thought that the Buzz-Off! (our spraying mosquito system) that was right next to the nest would disturb the birds or possibly harm them. So, she got up there and dissembled the nest. A few days later, it was there again!


Then, we started seeing the bird show up in the nest, a mourning dove. After awhile, she stayed there all the time, so we figured she had laid her eggs. She's been there for at least a week now, and we just realized that her eggs have already hatched and the baby birds are actually pretty big! They're about as big as a computer mouse. The only reason we can see them now is that they're too big to fit completely underneath their mother now! There are two of them, and sometimes we'll see the mother feeding them! It's so cute!


I saw my mom up on a ladder taking pictures today, so hopefully I'll have some pics to upload in the next post!