The Mourning Doves Coo
Begins Season Of Nesting and Feeding

Description

Black dots on their wings and a single black spot behind and below the eyes.

A long tapered white-edged tail that is conspicuous in flight.

Feeding Habits

Mourning Doves birds prefer open land with scattered trees and shrubs.

Except for wetland and dense forest, mourning doves can be found most anywhere.

They are one of the most widespread and adaptable North American birds.

Heated Ground Bath

The best garden habitat includes open lawn, herbaceous borders, and flower beds, with scattered patches of trees and shrubs.Include a source of water close to the ground (see right) in addition to providing bird seed and you should be able to attract these birds all year.

Mourning Dove Nesting Habits

If the Dove is startled and flies off the nest too quickly, the eggs could fall from the nest. Bird watchers would be wise to wait until the eggs have hatched before approaching any nest.

Nest abandonment is very common with these birds. If they feel any threat from predators whether human or animal, they may go elsewhere to nest abandoning both eggs and nestlings. Bird watchers need to exercise caution.

The nest can be found 5-25 feet above the ground, often in the crotch of a shrub or tree. Laying 2 white eggs that are incubated for 14-15 days. The young will leave the nest in 12-14 days.

Mourning Doves have been known to reuse the same nest for five sets of eggs in a single season. Usually 2 - 3 broods raised each season.

You can try attracting doves to nest near you by placing a Nesting Shelf attached to a tree or your house.

Doves, along with Pigeons, produce a food called pigeon milk (not really milk) by glands in the crop of the adult bird. The parent opens its mouth wide, permitting the nestling to stick its head inside to feed on the nutritious food.

In the wild, the adult birds feed primarily on waste grain. These include corn, wheat, grass, and weed seeds.

You can attract these birds to your feeder by supplying white and red proso millet, oil-type sunflower seeds, and cracked corn.

Important Mourning Dove Nesting Information

Unlike most birds, Doves incubate their eggs continually. Since the male and female look alike, it appears the same bird is incubating the eggs the whole time.

Actually, the male does a daytime shift and the female does the night shift. If you are not around during the change, it appears the same bird has been on the nest the whole time.

Not to worry, the switch was made while you were not looking.

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people often worry about when one of the birds die. These birds are perfect prey for cats because they feed mostly on the ground. Sometimes the surviving bird will attempt to incubate the eggs, or continue feeding the nestlings.

This is a difficult task for a single bird and often unsuccessful.

In due course, the surviving mate will find a new mate. Since they nest several times a season it's possible they will raise a successful brood in the same season. While it's sad to lose these birds in your yard, be comforted knowing they will mate again.

Lifespan

Predators include: birds, snakes, squirrels, cats and hunters.

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Wild Mourning Dove Turned Pet 
In May of this year (2009), I was sitting in my garage with the door open and in flies a Mourning Dove. I sat on the top step to watch it for awhile.

It ...

At Home In the Pines 
The giant pine trees in our front yard have been a haven for many of nature's creatures over the years, and August, 2009 was no exception. I retired several ...

Baby Mourning Dove  
I went for a walk and came across a baby Mourning Dove. He was too young to be out of the nest and had a cut on his/her (not sure) leg.

He was peeping ...

Baby Doves: First Set 
I started noticing twigs all over in a corner above our front door. I kept sweeping them away only to discover more the next day.

Why I looked up I ...

Doves Abandoned Nest  
Well my story begins in late May, early June 2009…I was doing some gardening near my patio. I decided to take a break & sat down and noticed some twigs ...

Dove Back - Second Year 
We have a mated pair of doves that have built their nest in our hanging basket under our front archway. They had a nest with two nestlings last year, 2008,...

Doves On My Balcony Part 4 
After the last month's success story, the new couple laid 2 eggs in the same nest. One hatched 2 days before the second one, so the chicks are in 2 different ...

Mourning Dove Nest Abandonment 
We have a lovely mourning dove who has set up her home in our back yard. She and her mate are beautiful creatures that seem curious about us, rather than ...

Mother Has Left The Nest 
They are in a planter on my patio. I go out each morning and I talk to her because this is the closest I have ever been to one. I think I may done the ...

City Doves Hatch on our Window Ledge 
One day I was in a "let me air out the apartment" mood. I opened one of the bedroom windows, forgetting that there was a safety lock. The window would ...

Nesting Doves in Joshua Tree, CA-Part 2 
It has been several weeks now since the Doves have returned to the nest. I can watch the nest from my kitchen window and last week I noticed the twigs ...

Doves on TOP of small finch house 
We hung out a small birdhouse for house finches. It has a peaked roof and is hung up against a porch pillar. A pair of mourning doves decided to use ...

A Nest within a Nest 
Imagine our surprise and delight when a nest appeared along with two eggs in a hanging basket on the front porch of my shop!

They never leave and seem ...

Baby Dove Dies In Nest 
We have a sconce hanging on one of our pillars in our front yard. A pair of Mourning Doves have commandeered it for their nesting sight, much to our delight!...

Dove Carrying Egg Shell 
We have doves outside and above our porch door (they built the nest while we were away.) They have been there about 6 weeks as far as we know. We keep ...

Doves On My Balcony Part 2 
Successful!!
A few days after I wrote the original column, two eggs hatched. The chicks were so quiet and the loving and studious parents were there 24 ...

Dove Nest on Hanging Ladder 
While cutting my grass the other day I heard a sound and saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked up and saw what appeared to be a bird nest ...

Doves In Hanging Flowers 
My husband just finished redoing our porch in wood. To Celebrate, he bought me some nice colorful hanging flowers to decorate it. On memorial day this ...

Doves On My Windowsill 
We have a lot of ivy growing across our dining room windows. Early this spring we had noticed a mourning dove, often sitting on the windowsill and cooing....

Doves on Opener 2 babies 
One day we were in our garage (California carport-door on one side/open on other), and to our surprise we saw a dove nesting on our garage door opener....

DOVES on Garage Door Pictures 
I have added a picture to go along with my previously posted story...


One day we were in our garage (California carport-door on one side/open on other)...

DOVES on Garage Door Opener 
One day we were in our garage (California carport-door on one side/open on other), and to our surprise we saw a dove nesting on our garage door opener....

Nesting Doves in Joshua Tree, CA 
Last year around the last week of May, I noticed a dove nest on the beam of the new patio. I can see the Dove nesting from the kitchen window.

I was ...

Doves in Hanging Plant 
I noticed a mourning dove in my hanging planter a while back but did not pay any attention to it - just thought it was finding something to eat. The basket ...

Love nest 
A pair of mourning doves has set up residence on top of a heart shaped hanging basket on our front porch.

Last year they started building a nest in ...

Doves in Hanging basket 
A pair of mourning doves filled the hanging basket outside our kitchen window. It was a delightful surprise to see them sitting there only a few ...

Doves on Our Outside Light  
For several years we have had the same robin family nesting on our outside light. Each year we leave the nest up and they return. The nest is so attached ...

Dove Nest In Gutter 
We live in central Illinois and the mourning dove is very common here. We have a mother dove sitting on her nest that was constructed in the house rain ...

Doves in hanging basket part 2 
Folowing up with Birdell and Birdean here's a shot of the twins!

They flew away Friday and Mom is looking for them... I think... They were ready to ...

Returning doves - mourning our Mourning Dove 
In June, we will have been in our house for 10 yrs. The very first year we experienced our 1st set of Mourning Doves.

They build a nest, raised a couple ...

Nesting Mourning Doves 
I have a mourning dove nest in my back yard on top of my fence at the beginning if a bushy vine and have been watching for 2 weeks.

Each night around ...

Doves on our patio 
It was about 2 weeks ago when my brother-in-law went to get the spreader to fertilize the grass.

He reached up on the cabinet and when he grabbed the ...

Doves Nesting on Main Street; Franklin, TN 
We have a tree right in front of my shops front door, only the width of a sidewalk away from it and the doves nested and had two babies at the end of April....

Doves Nesting In Cactus 
Just about a week ago I was surprised to find 2 Mourning Doves in a flurry of activity making a nest in a succulent/cactus (ouch),plant on my terrace....

Doves nesting in my balcony 
2 years ago spring, there were mourning doves started nesting on my wicker shelf in my balcony and laid 2 eggs. I was ignorant and thinking the mother ...

Doves on an Arlington, VA high-rise balcony 
About a month ago, a pair of mourning doves decided an empty metal flower pot -- at the top of a stack of unused pots waiting for spring -- was the perfect ...

Dove nest in South Florida 
Mourning doves nested in a Sabal Palm tree right outside our second floor office window. The female picked a great spot facing our window and sheltered ...

My First Mourning Dove Nest 
I discovered it just yesterday. I hung a new petunia and then had to go out of town for 2 days. When I came back, I went to water it and a dove flew ...

Doves On My Deck - Again! 
LAST YEAR!! While sipping my Sunday morning coffee, I turned to look out of the kitchen window to notice a Mourning Dove sitting in one of my flower boxes ...

Doves on front porch 
My mother in law passed away in March of 2008. When we got back from the funeral, we walked out the front door one day and noticed a mourning dove had ...

My Bedroom Window Box 
Rocklin California I have had two window boxes for 15 years and while I have been feeding birds in my backyard for a long time never expected THIS.

I ...

Garage Nesting Morning Doves 
I have a pair of Morning Doves in my garage on top of my garage door opener. They seem to have a nest somewhere in my garage every year. An sometime I ...

Doves in Wreath on Front Door 
When I first saw the morning doves building a nest in the wreath on my front door, I thought of pulling the twigs out & removing the wreath till they found ...

Doves in Tombstone Rose Bush 
A pair of doves have built a nest on a ledge of my pergola where there are two Tombstone rose bushes growing.

The nest is very sparse and I check around ...

Doves nesting by my front door 
Last spring they tried to nest in a pine tree outside our bedroom window. It is windy here. I put a wire mesh strainer tied with wire. They laid 2 eggs....

Doves on patio table 
I noticed one day a few twigs and pine needles on the patio table, this table was at a corner and under the eves of the house.

The next day a few more ...

Doves in plant on my patio deck 
It all started one surprising cold day in March when it had snowed and a small sparrow was chirping on my patio, probably as confused as humans about why ...

Doves and Robins on Porch Swing 
Mourning Dove and Robin nesting on porch swing.

In the fall, my husband and I hang our front porch swing up close to the porch ceiling. To our surprise,...

Doves on My Fire Escape 
Hello,

I live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and there are a lovely pair of doves nesting on my fire escape. I had seen them hopping about and heard them ...

Mourning Doves Nesting in Lg Bush in Backyard Update 
Hello bird lovers!

Thought I'd let you all know an update on the Mourning Doves. The Mama is diligently sitting on her nest. I went to the store and ...

Doves in hanging baskets 2 
I have a dove on my patio in a hanging basket as well! I have been worried it was there to die as I never see it leave to eat but I guess they are slipping ...

Mourning Doves Nesting in Lg Bush in Backyard 
Hello everyone!!

What a wonderful surprise for me. I'm disabled and am confined to my home - have been for the past year and a half. I have come to ...

Waiting for the little heads to pop up! 
Morning doves have lived in my yard for a few years. I see them near the birdbath amd feeder every day. Usually two sit together on the fence or on the ...

Dove Nest On Patio Wicker Chair 
Where would a dove couple build a safe nest away from harm and prey? On a wicker chair out on an upstairs outdoor deck, of course. We were fascinated ...

Doves Nesting On Moms Porch 
Visiting my mother recently I saw a mourning dove nesting on top of a pillar under the porch roof. Not unusual, though last year they selected her neighbors,...

Morning Doves Move Into New House With Us! 
We recently moved into our new home here in Indian Land, South Carolina on Feb. 25, 2009.

We noticed on our back screened in porch on the second floor ...

Doves nesting in Patio Planter 
One morning last week I was sitting out on my back patio enjoying the spring day when I noticed a dove 20 ft out at the edge of the patio, pacing back ...

Baby doves 
I first noticed the dove nesting in my hanging flower pot just outside the window in late February.

As much as I love sitting in my patio swing, I tried ...

Doves in Planter--Story #3641  
I sense a trend... We too have doves in our planter, which is about 5.5 feet off ground, on a little platform under an overhang.

The first time we ...

5th Year of Doves in Planter - Science Project 
5 years ago a dove took up residence in our planter right outside of our kitchen window. We'd greet her in the morning and we're captivated as we'd ...

Doves in Palm Tree 
We live in our motor home and came to Yuma Az for the winter. After setting up in our site and settling in few days we noticed a mourning Dove.

She ...

DovesOn French Quarter Balcony 
She just laid her first egg this morning and I certainly hope that this story ends happily. Since the storm we do not have as many birds in New Orleans....

Doves Nest On Wooden Cubby 
Hi! I'm in Tucson. We have a small townhouse with a carport that we've made into a garage. In the garage there's a wooden "cubby hole" unit, about ...

Doves In Our Garage 
We noticed the twigs on a shelf in front of my car one morning last week. Lo and behold a few days later a Dove was sitting in the golf bag cover with ...

Doves In Grape Vine. 
At the moment I have a little Dove living in my grapevine.

As far as I know they are up to their second lot of eggs. The first lot of little ones I ...

Baby Dove Abandoned By Parents 
We have a two mourning doves (Mr and Mrs Dovely) that have layed 4 sets of eggs in our flower box on our deck.

This time the baby dove fell out of the ...

Uno... our $1,000.00 dove 
About three years ago, my husband found a dove laying on our pool deck with its right wing barely connected to its body. He brought the bird in to ask ...

Two Days Before First Flight 
I have a nest that always seems to be occupied. The nest is on my balcony where it is pretty quiet and easy for the birds to get to.

I just love watching ...

3rd Round This Summer 
Hi again!

This is the 3rd round of babies to arrive since May. The first time around we didn't see the parents switching places on the nest, but since ...

Permanent Nesting Doves?? 
This May the weather was getting warm and my wife went to turn on the room a/c in her upstair's office. She turned the a/c on and nothing happened. I ...

Just Noticed New Dove Tenants 
My husband and I have been renting a condominium for a bit over a year in Walnut Creek California, and we had heard the doves coo for many days a couple ...

Our New Friends 
We recently had the pleasure of a pair of Morning Doves build their nest right on the framing shelve on our front porch.

They have been wonderful to ...

Dove Nesting In My Front Tree 
I noticed early this season that I had a nest in the crotch of a low hanging branch (about 6 ft off the ground) in a dense white mulberry tree.

I was ...

Dove Panicked Protecting Babies 
I have learned so much about my doves here from all your wonderful stories! All the other sites just tell about incubation and nesting times.

My story ...

So Sad, Lost Both Babies 
As I write this I am sitting here crying. My grown daughter says that is silly, that it's only nature, but I just can't help it.

Would like to know ...

New Life On Top Floor 
Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful way to start a day. We have a baby dove. Birth at 9:10a.m. Dallas Time and my friend and I were watching.

The mother ...

A Dove Story 
We have lived in our house going on 11 years. Every Spring the Doves nest in one of my hanging pots just a few feet off my back porch. I call this a ...

Mourning Dove Lands On My Shoulder 
I was outside on my deck one morning and a bird landed right beside me. I put out my hand and he climbed on it.

After a few minutes I put him back ...

Penny and Benny 

Penny and Benny

I observed a pair of mourning doves hanging out on the fire escape across the way from my 6th floor apartment in Greenwich ...

Mourning Doves On Deck 
We had two babies nestled in the bend of the tree in our back yard. Finally, they were old enough to fly.

However, they do find their own food and ...

Visitation 
I buried my mother yesterday. She and My dad mated for life, and she loved him so much and grieved so for him when he died.

I have been taking care ...

Mommas Babies 
I was watering my plants one evening and was startled by a big plump dove snugly tucked in my hanging flowerpot.

To an even bigger amazement of mine,...

Mourning Doves nesting on my 3rd floor balcony 
I had just gotten home from house sitting for a few days and noticed some stuff laying on my chairs on my balcony, I figured I would clean it off in the ...

Cob-web duster nest 
I hung a web duster on the iron grate of my bedroom window last year. One day when I grabbed it there was a sudden movement in the top so I quickly let ...

Watering Plants When Nesting In Plants 
Question: Should I water the hanging plant????

Mourning Doves nested in a hanging plant that hangs a couple of feet from the window in our den. We ...

Dove Nesting in Unusual Area 
Well I'm 15, pretty much a youngin' and not very aware of how bird watching works. I have a lamp that hangs outside my front porch from the ceiling roof ...

Patio Nesting Doves 
Recent high winds blew part of our patio cover off.

We have had mourning doves in our yard in the past but they never nested where we could see them....

Mourning Dove In My Lamp! 
Every year, it seems I have some sort of bird nest where I really don't want it, ferns, plants, my exhaust pipes,...here is a pic of the newest one....on ...

Doves At Top Floor 
Just got back from being out of town and first thing I notice was that my plants were suffering from lack of water.

I live on the top floor of my complex ...

Doves On light Outside Door 
Two Doves began making a nest over a month ago on my light outside my front door.

I went away for 5 days and when I returned found no one sitting on ...

Doves Nesting In Garage 
We had noticed some activity of doves flying in and out of our garage. We had closed the garage door and then when we reopend it our dove became very ...

Doves Nesting On Patio Bar 
We had the great experience of watching Mourning Doves build a nest on top of our covered-patio bar.

We talked to them gently from day one and they ...

Mourning Doves On My Porch 
For the last two years my family and I have had a family of mourning doves nesting in a hanging plant on my front porch.

My husband, kids and I enjoy ...

Found Dove In Hanging Plant 
I don't know who was more startled, me or the dove. I went to water my plants one day and watered the dove, who flew away quite upset with me.

I left ...

Dove Nesting On Light Fixture 
I have a Mourning Dove nesting in my hanging light fixture on my back porch. She has been nesting for a couple of weeks and her babies are ready to hatch....

Doves In Patio Covering 
I love this site! Thank you. I am a huge bird-lover (cat and dog lover, too). Have 2 humming bird hangers in our small'ish Irvine, CA backyard.

I ...

Doves In Porch Plant Hanger 
This dove is nesting on my front porch side wall.People are walking very close to that hanging planter and she (he)are OK with that. One small problem ...

Nestlings Survive Alone? 
So about a couple weeeks ago, a little bird decided to lay her eggs in one of my hanging baskets.

The bird that was nesting this morning seems to had ...

Doves Wooden Cat Planter 
I have had three sets of nesting doves so far this season. The first brood was successful in my wooden cat planter.(Ironic)

The little ones matured ...

Doves Nest Year After Year 
Mourning Doves Nest Year After Year Atop Our Automatic Garage Door Opener

Since 2003 we have had pairs of Mourning Doves nesting atop the motor for ...

Blessed With Dove Nesting 
How great to have found your website with all that wonderful information. I, too, was worried that the same bird would starve since I thought it was always ...

Doves in my Basil 
A few days ago I was watering my plants and have a double hanging basket with basil on top and begonias on bottom.

I thought I saw a funny looking piece ...

Mourning Dove in my Candle 
Hello,
My Name is Jayson and I am 8 years old and I have discovered I have a Morning Dove sitting in my moms candle on my back porch.

I have been calling ...

Doves On Skinny Ledge 
To my surprise I have a couple of doves nesting on a very slim ledge on top of one of the tall pillars that stands by our front door.

There is hardly ...

Satellite Nesting Doves 
First time I noticed a pair of doves nesting is when the picture on the tv was going on and off.

I went upstairs looked out of the bedroom window, and ...

Dove on Garage Door Opener. 
LoveyDovey built her nest about 2 weeks ago on our door opener. We are pretty sure her mate (found a dead dove in the yard) was killed in a hail storm ...

Doves On Light Fixture. 
Three or four years ago two doves nested on the light fixture on my second floor balcony. Fascinating, watching them take turns minding the nest.

My ...

Dove Nesting On Ladder. 
One day I went out into the backyard to find a bunch of twigs and sticks on my ladder.

At first I thought it was kind of funny but figured what the ...

Doves Nested Then Abandoned 
We have a hanging planter on our front porch and noticed a dove sitting on her eggs when my husband went to sit on our front porch.

The dove and her ...

My Babies 
My stepdad is a maintence man at a large condo home structure. He had called my mom and told her about these two baby Mourning Doves. They were in the ...

Unbreakable Bond 
The love of a mourning dove.

I was startled by a loud thump this afternoon to find that a dove rammed into my front door.

Sadly, she was injured....

Doves Decorating Patio Entertaining Grandchildren 
A little over a year ago we noticed a pair "checking out" a little nook in our patio, on top of a 4X6.

Soon they were busy building a nest. It seemed ...

In My Hanging Plant 
Yesterday, I noticed a dove nesting in my hanging plant, which hangs from the eave of my ramada, or outdoor patio.

Unfortunately, one of my cats noticed ...

Mourning Dove Using Robin Nest Several Years 
We moved into our home 3 years ago in April(0'5) and on top of a window ledge were some Robins nesting.

When they left the nest we never climbed up ...

Doves Nesting In Plant Container 
I was wondering for a few days why every time I opened the front door a dove would fly away...Then I discovered that they had built a nest in where I had ...

Doves Nesting On Patio Ceiling Fan 
We live in Florida. Our back patio and yard face a small pond.

Wildlife are always plentiful by the pond, especially mornings. We regularly see Herons,...

Arrival Of The Doves 
Not really much of a 'story'. One day in early March as I sit and watch tv, I hear that warm-feeling sound.

I think, it can't be, they're too early,...

Dove in Pecan Tree  
I have an upstairs art studio where I often work in a corner of two sliding glass doors.

My dove is nesting literally just an arm's length from there ...

Mourning Doves Nesting on my Window Sill 
A few years ago, I noticed 2 mourning doves trying to build a nest on my brick bedroom window sill.

The female would stand on the slanted sill and wait ...

Morning Doves Nesting In My Hanging Plants. 
I found doves nesting at my house. I came across them when watering my hanging plants that hang well above the ground but just off of my front entrance ...

Front Door Nest 
A pair of doves built a nest on the wreath which was hanging on our front door. We were not able to use our front door for weeks, while we waited.

They ...

Mouring Doves At My Window. 
I have a sad story to tell.

We put siding on our house. The workers took down our window boxes because they were old and falling down.

I knew the ...

Mixed Up Dove 
My wife has a way with domestic and wild animals that is almost unbelievable. One day she decided to raise some chickens, actually laying hens, for the ...

The baby that flew before he could fly 
This past weekend my husband and I decided to cut down a very large locust tree in our front yard. When my husband climbed the tree to examine the cutting ...

Was She Too Inattentive? 
We live on the Red Deer River and have many birds on our property. This year we have a Morning Dove (Mom & Pop)nesting in one of our Blue Spruce trees,...

Picture of nesting mourning dove 
I have had a Mourning Dove nesting in my flower box for a week. I put food and water out. It let's me get pretty close to it.

Hanging Silk Flower Basket Nursery 
I have a hanging basket on my front porch that gets the morning sun and shade in the afternoon.

In April we were delighted to see we had a mother Mourning ...

Dove Nest On Front Door 
We live in Houston, TX and have experienced a long, hot summer. Fortunately, we have a small porch which keeps the shade on the front entrance.

Our ...

Father Dove Abandon Baby Doves 
Hi, The mourning dove nest is above my porch.
This morning daddy dove got spooked by my husband shaking a table cloth!

Two baby doves have been alone ...

Dove in Planter Again 
Well my daughter and I were in the backyard swimming. My daughter noticed a bird in one of my hanging planters. She thought it must be fake.

As I ...

Mourning Dove Returns To Nest 
Last spring, after several early mornings of hearing a "cooing" sound, I discovered a pair of doves had taken up residence in our fern basket which hangs ...

Leaving The Nest  Not rated yet
This is an update on an earlier post which described the mourning doves nesting (for the second time) on top of our iron entry lamp.

In spite of the ...

Mournng Doves Nesting on Entry Lamp  Not rated yet
We had enjoyed the cooing of the doves in front of our house. Then some six weeks ago, we noticed a mourning dove sitting on top of our approximately 9"...

Doves, How Long Off The Eggs?  Not rated yet
We have a trellis to our back yard where doves have chosen to lay there eggs. For several days we watched as both ground doves work on the nest.

At ...

Homemade Dove Nest Works!  Not rated yet
In an attempt to keep the doves out of my plants I hung a basket in my patio, filled it with twigs and baby tear (a ground cover) and within 2 days I had ...

Doves Nest in Hanging Ivy   Not rated yet
We had a sweetheart ivy hanging by the patio doors. The doves built a nest in the middle of the ivy. It was cute.

It looked like an artificial arrangement ...

Too Young To Fly- Now they're back What?  Not rated yet
I have a hanging basket under the eave of my porch. I didn't plant anything in it this year and it is simply dirt and some dried stems of earlier plantings....

Dove Won't Leave Plum Tree!  Not rated yet
Ever since early spring I have been hesitant to prune my plum tree in the front yard because there has been a dove nesting in it. Her eggs have hatched,...

Doves in Hanging Plant  Not rated yet
My story is about two parent and four babies. We had two litters. Only one survived sadly. These birds lived in Friendswood, Texas. There Names were Miss....

Doves In Our Palm Tree!  Not rated yet
We woke up this morning and went outside and to our amazement, right in the middle of our front yard garden, is a nest with a mother (or father) sitting ...

Mama and Baby Dove In Hammock  Not rated yet
On June 23, 2009 my husband and I were in our back yard and noticed a small white egg on the ground, broken. About 6 inches from the broken egg and my ...

Henny and Kenny  Not rated yet
I submitted our story about our first nesting doves in 2008 -- Penny and Benny. Well, we are now on our third mourning dove family.

The new parents ...

I'm Worried About My Doves  Not rated yet
Today I accidentally found a nest while sweeping off our wrap around porch, with a mourning dove and two babies.

The nest was built up in the rafters ...

Third Year Nesting In Hanging Plant  Not rated yet
For three years or more, as soon as I put my hanging pots out, I have a dove making a nest in it. Last year there were three nestings and out of the eggs,...

They came back...  Not rated yet
Michigan
Last year we had a couple of morning doves put a nest together in a hanging basket of flowers. We have seen two eggs in it. It was such a miracle!...

Doves in Hanging Plant  Not rated yet
We hung a new plant outside our back door. We decided it was a bit high so a week later lowered it. When my husband went to do this he said he startled ...

Marie - Our Mourning Dove  Not rated yet
For the past 6 years, Marie our wild mourning dove has visited us here in Huntington Beach, California. The first season, she attempted to build a nest ...

Mourning Doves , 2 Eggs and Hatchlings  Not rated yet
Early in the month of May, we discovered we had a small nest outside our window. We didn't know at first what kind of eggs were laid on that nest.

Later ...

Doves Handle Dying  Not rated yet
My neighbor fed our clutch of mourning doves from 1975-1995 and when she moved away made me promise to continue which I have done. I whistle for them ...

Who knew? Yep, a Dove in hanging plant...  Not rated yet
Two days ago while BBQing, we were startled by a dove sitting atop a rather small hanging planter. The dove remained in the planter, and just watched ...

New Tenants Arrived!  Not rated yet
I have a wall decoration beside my front door that I've wanted to replace but, before I could do so, twigs were being placed on top of it, and with twigs ...

Our Mourning Dove  Not rated yet
Our dove hatched yesterday morning and now there is not a parent with the baby. She was there this morning but hasn't been seen all day long. What can ...

Petey The Great   Not rated yet
In my Room Window Ive noticed A new Addition. It was a Nest!.

Later on I told my mom it was a bird in my window she was kinda fat and I thought about ...

One Hatched! One More To Go!  Not rated yet
I watched a pair of m. doves over a period of a couple of weeks build a very loose nest under the eves of my garage on top of a large wisteria branch that ...

Our Carousel Doves   Not rated yet
We noticed twigs and leaves on our patio table and noticed a nest being built in our ceiling fan. Eventually we noticed a dove settling in and learned ...

Whose nest is it anyway?  Not rated yet
We have a two story home with tall columns on the front porch in the front in a suburban neighborhood.

We love watching birds in our backyard, and in ...

Doves on the garage door  Not rated yet
My husband has a habit of leaving the garage door open. Sure enough I saw a nesting dove right on top of the door. I steeled my heart and told my husband ...

Surogate Parents  Not rated yet
When gardeners took down two trees from our front yard, two eggs came down with them. The trees were hauled off but the two eggs were left behind....

bakery box doves  Not rated yet
I had a bakery box top, clear plastic, sitting on my bakers rack on the patio here in Arizona. Also had been working on shredding paper & had put out some ...

Doves nesting on boat platform  Not rated yet
I keep our 17 ft. pleasure boat parked in the grass along our driveway. In the winter I put a large tarp over it to keep the snow and rain off. We do get ...

Doves Nest In My Planter  Not rated yet
Just moved in my 5th floor apt, in long beach, ca. I was sitting,late march sun gazing the morning sunrise, when I notice two doves building a nest in ...

Doves In Aloe  Not rated yet
There is a dove who decided to nest just in front of my door in a huge aloe.

Up to now nothing special, but she has suddenly disappeared, leaving two ...

Doves Under Japanese Maple  Not rated yet
I have had two Doves in my front flowerbed for two days now. They spend most of the day under a Japanese Maple. I have read that the two trade off, but ...

Doves in Hanging Plant  Not rated yet
I have doves nesting in a hanging plant on my apartment patio for a few weeks now. I first noticed them attempting to make a nest one day.

The next ...

The Twins  Not rated yet
The twin morning doves were born in a nest over my Grandma's little barn. They made their nest on top of a big grape vine wreath.

This is the second ...

Doves Giving Me An Education!  Not rated yet
We came back from a vacation, and was catching up on the yard watering when we discovered a dove nesting in one of our wall mount planters.

We watched ...

Doves Take Over Manhattan Air Conditioner  Not rated yet
Our NYC apartment looks out on a beautiful, green area that comprises the backyards of a dozen homes. It is rich with bird life.

A few days ago we ...

Doves Nesting on our Patio Ceiling Fan  Not rated yet
A couple of months ago my husband and I were startled from a bird flying from our patio ceiling fan after we had turned on the light the fans came on and ...

Benny and Penny Starting New Family  Not rated yet
After the two squabs left the nest, one of them hung around nearby for about a week on the fire escape of my apartment (opposite the nest next to the flowerpot)...

More Babies!  Not rated yet
Hi - the first set of babies flew away in about a week's time. We coudn't see them at first and then started seeing feathers underneath the parents. The ...

Doves Nesting On My TV  Not rated yet
Great story goes on. A couple of months ago my roommate told me of a dove nesting in our patio where we have an outside TV mounted near the ceiling.

I ...

Doves Babies Still in Fake Palm Tree  Not rated yet
On June 5 I wrote telling about my story of mom and dad making nest in our fake palm tree. She had babies about 2 weeks ago.

They have grown so quickly ...

Third Set Of Nesting Doves  Not rated yet
We had a store bought nest under the covered part of our deck and it has been there since we bought the house - about 6 years ago.

Just this year we ...

Baby Doves Different Directions  Not rated yet
I am the lady in Tucson Az that wrote the story about How my Male Dove protected his 2 babies, I wrote back and added they were back nesting for the 2nd ...

Dove Nesting in Palm Trunk  Not rated yet
A year and half ago we moved into a new home. We have a medium size palm tree near our pool and directly next to our path to the barn.

Last year I noticed ...

Doves Nesting In Patio Umbrella  Not rated yet
For the past 7 years, we have had a pair of doves nesting in our back yard. They started out making their nests in a potted ficus tree by our back door....

Doves Nesting In Orchid Pot  Not rated yet
This nest is in an orchid pot just outside our dining room window, in front of our front door. The doves don't seem to be disturbed by our coming and ...

Ivy Plant Take-Over  Not rated yet
My husband had no more than hung his favorite ivy plant on the porch which is protected from the rain when a mourning dove sat right down in it.

Her ...

Dove Nesting On Rainspout  Not rated yet
I am not sure if it is the same doves every year but .....they nest where the rainspout meets the wall.

About 8 - 10 feet high. 2 babies 3 - 5 times ...

Doves Nesting in Ceiling Fan on Patio  Not rated yet
About 3 weeks ago, we noticed a bird nest and bird inside the top part of our ceiling fan. We weren't not sure what type of bird it was.

Searching ...

Great Experience  Not rated yet
Just read with interest the facts re: morning doves sitting on the nest. I have a nest in my Honey Suckle vine attached to my small patio.

It seemed ...

Doves Begin Third Nesting  Not rated yet
We have a tall shrub right outside our family room window and we have had a great Spring season watching our set of mourning doves. I have 2 daughters ...

Dive Bombing Dove  Not rated yet
My friend and neighbour up the road has an evergreen in her front yard close to the house. One morning her husband was doing some gardening around the ...

Destroyed Nest  Not rated yet
I had a pair that nested on my patio. I have a column on my patio that has about an 18" ledge.

The pair quite happy in their home but, last night I ...

Doves in Basket by Front Door  Not rated yet
Hanging right by my front door, next to a railing, and I have 2 cats. One was sleeping in her bed right under the basket, with the mourning dove sitting ...

First time with nesting doves  Not rated yet
I was so excited to find this site yesterday and hear the great stories.

We have a pair of doves nesting on a pillar on our front porch. It's been fun ...

Our Garage Nesting Doves  Not rated yet
One day I noticed a bird in our garage. I didn't think much of it because our garage is always open except at night.

One day my son noticed a nest ...

Doves Nesting In Fern Plant   Not rated yet
I noticed the nest a couple of weeks ago when I went to water my fern. Its at eye level, and easily seen.

I watched them everyday. They would switch ...

Dove Injured On Shepherds Hook  Not rated yet
I have a shepherds hook for bird feeders with two hooks of differing heights.

I noticed something odd hanging from the feeder pole and it was a mourning ...

An Unusual Male Dove  Not rated yet
Since Feb of this year (2008) there is a male dove that frequents my yard daily (he has a special pink birth mark on his neck and that is how I know it ...

I Named Her Sweetness  Not rated yet
One day I was watering the topiaries on my front patio when all of a sudden I noticed that there was a mourning dove nestling in my lion's head wall fountain!...

One Remaining Dove  Not rated yet
I have been thrilled to observe a pair of doves building a nest in a blue spruce about ten feet away from my deck. They started incubating yesterday.

This ...

UPPER DUPLEX  Not rated yet
Last year a robin built a nest adjacent to my front door.It had eave support and roof protection.

It was a neat little abode which was abandoned once ...

Help! They're sitting in my strawberries!  Not rated yet
After returning from a weekend trip, mourning doves have moved into my hanging strawberry basket on my back deck.

I can't see any eggs, nor evidence ...

Mourning Dove Nesting In My Empty Flower Pot  Not rated yet
About two weeks ago I discovered a Dove sitting in an empty flower pot on my patio. I feel so excited and blessed that I get to witness this beautiful ...

Doves On 4 Inch Beam  Not rated yet
We have a pair of very devoted doves sharing our porch and driveway/garage corner.

We had finches with 4 eggs in one corner and the doves right over ...

Robin Eggs In Dove Nest  Not rated yet
The nest was constructed by a Robin. Once complete, day one of laying eggs, the Robin laid one.

Day two the dove was in the nest forcing the Robin to ...

Doves Returning Every Year.  Not rated yet
The first time they nested in my hanging basket, it was a shock to us both when I started to water the plant.

I just let the plant die that year because ...

Doves In Abandoned Flower Pot  Not rated yet
I live in Hazelwood. MO, just north of St. Louis. I own a small condo with an enclosed backyard.

I have 3 cats, 2 of which love to go out in the back ...

Doves Nest In Rain Gutter  Not rated yet
When we built our house, we included a covered porch in the back into which a gutter from the roof of our house enters about 3 feet.

The doves have ...

Mourning Doves in Door Wreath  Not rated yet
We have a dried flower and wheat wreath on our front door in which we have discovered a nesting pair of doves.

When one of the doves is in the nest,...

Morning Dove White Fronted Dove.   Not rated yet
I awoke this morning, opened my blinds, and there in my balcony box between my arugula and cilantro, was a beautiful black spotted brown Dove. Not wanting ...

Dove Nest On Bath Window  Not rated yet
After we finish our showers in the morning we leave the window open for ventilation.

One morning we heard the doves, which usually hang around near ...

Baby Hatchling In Pond Waterfall  Not rated yet
We found this Mom? Dad? nesting in our waterfall of our pond. We didnt have the heart to turn on the waterfall.

Today we found at least one baby and ...

Doves Force Robins Out  Not rated yet
I had a plastic hanging pot that had soil in it from last summer. When the plant was finished, I pulled it and inserted bright colored silk flowers.

This ...

Doves In Grapevine Wreath  Not rated yet
On our main door to come into the house I have a large grapevine wreath with flowers around it.

I walked by it 2 days ago and a mourning dove flew out ...

Windowsill Mourning Doves  Not rated yet
Mourning Doves are nesting on my windowsill beside the front door. The windowsill is lined with pinecones in order to deter the cat from jumping up and ...

Doves Nesting In Eaves  Not rated yet
We have a pair of doves that have set up a nest in the eaves. It is so soothing to hear them coo.

They are both the same coloring with the familiar ...

Mourning Doves On My Porch  Not rated yet
I nailed a plastic potted plant tray to my porch wooden balcony wall and I put out seed each day. Black-eyed junkos, sparrows and, to my delight, two pairs ...

Statue nest  Not rated yet
Nest is a week old...


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pw
Woodbridge, VA USA

We have a family of Morning Doves, they actually take turns nesting each other's eggs....

Doves Cans Survive  Not rated yet
We had a garage door put up in front of our house and the garage is open in the back where I can go in an out to do my wash or get supplies as we need ...

Doves Nesting on a Fence  Not rated yet
We,ve always seen and heard mourning doves in our yard on Staten Island, New York, where we,ve lived for 34 years.

About two weeks ago we noticed one ...

Mourning Dove Nesting In My Impatients  Not rated yet
A week ago, after finishing a spruce up of my front porch, I purchased 2 hanging Impatient plants and put them out.

After 4 days, I went to water them ...

Third Time's a Charm  Not rated yet
My husband thinks I'm strange because I'm always rescuing something -- stray cats, turtles in the road, toads, lost dogs, etc.

Now, I'm helping birds!...

Visitors Welcome!  Not rated yet
My newest neighbors live outside of my bedroom window on my balcony. They are nesting in a flower pot filled with dirt.

I welcome them but my condo ...

Doves - Nesting on my ladder  Not rated yet
I painted my dinning and kitchen Monday April 7th, and put the ladder outside in the patio (forgetting to place back in the garage).

Two days later ...

Mourning Doves on My Balcony  Not rated yet
First discovered Friday, April 11th (one egg). A second egg could be seen on Saturday, April 12th during the afternoon "change of guard".

I've witnessed ...

Doves on Two Story Column  Not rated yet
For the second year in a row the doves have nested on top of one of our front porch columns.

This year the mother must have met with a predator since ...

Nesting Mourning Dove (Male)  Not rated yet
Found Dove had made a nest on my shelving unit on my front porch. Later found there was (1) one egg in nest, (now there are (2) two).

I was worried ...

Mouring Doves In Balcony Plant  Not rated yet
I was watering my balcony plants about two weeks ago when a bird revved up from one of my palm plants.

It startled me, as the bird passed very close ...

Doves In Hanging Basket  Not rated yet
"Our" doves hatched yesterday!

It was exciting to watch the two baby doves pecking at each other and at their mother - or dad - whichever one was on ...

Doves Nesting In Breezeway Planter  Not rated yet
April 11th, 2008

Hi Ya'll,

My wife thought this set of doves were a fake bird that I had placed in the planter.

It was really funny when we found ...

Lovey's Nest On Gazebo  Not rated yet
One day in very late March, I was out on the deck and noticed that some brush had blown up and gotten stuck in the cross pieces of the gazebo.

The next ...

Our Family Of Doves  Not rated yet
One day last spring I notices a nest in one of my potted plants that is on my balcony.

I decided to leave the nest there not knowing at the thime whether ...

Happy Spring!  Not rated yet
I begun to hear the peaceful hum of mourning doves in early March. But, it wasn't until Easter morning when I decided to pop open the windows for the first ...

Windowsill Dove Nesting  Not rated yet
My story starts about 18 years ago, when my daughter was 8 years old.

One day in April we heard a woo coming from outside her window. When we looked,...

Doves Nesting In My Schefflera On Balcony  Not rated yet
I have a Schefflera plant on my third story balcony. I go out there frequently to water my plants.

The other day I noticed a nest in my plant but no ...

When Me And Birds Cross Paths  Not rated yet
I had Killdeer, Blue Jays, Crows, and Mourning doves nest all around my home.

The sad thing is all of them were either hurt or abandoned. Every-time ...

Update on Astro Nut  Not rated yet
It is now Tuesday September 11, 2007 and I have good news for the ending of my story on Astro Nut, The baby that flew before he could fly.

He flew across ...