Satellite Nesting Doves

by Martyn Dickinson
(Nottingham England)

Boris or could it be Doris

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 noticed a dove passing twigs to its partner as one of them was building a nest on back of my satellite dish.

They were building the nest for a couple of days and I noticed fallen twigs on the path below the dish.

One day as I looked out of the window to see how they were getting on I noticed the doves were no longer there. It looked as if they had left a half built nest. Thinking to myself they must have gone elsewhere.

A few hours later the picture on the tv went off again, so I went out of the back door looked up and our featherd friends had retured and roosting on the nest.

Daily me and the wife open the window to see how they are getting on and not once do they look alarmed at our presence in doing so.

My wife has named them Boris & Doris and with all the satellite dishes all around us we are honoured they have choosen ours to nest.

Mr M Dickinson
Nottingham
England

Satellite Doves Update

Boris

Took a better picture of my satellite doves who are still nesting, On reading about the birds its Boris nesting during the day and Doris takes over later in the evening.

The food we have been putting out has been taken by them as well with other birds, just hope the chicks stay on the nest when they hatch being such a small nest, fingers crossed.

Update 3


Rosie & Jim

Satellite Doves Baby's Have Left The Nest

Like most things in life baby's are born, they grow up, then they leave and thats what happend to Boris & Doris young.

Over the weeks we watched the eggs hatch and slowly they grew bigger and bigger so much so Boris & Doris couldn't roost on the nest with them.

Then my wife noticed the baby doves "By the way, the wife called them Rosie and Jim" on the front of the dish and then they took there first flight and left, "a sad moment" and we didn't see them for a while until we saw fluttering in the tree in our garden and it was mum & dad feeding the baby's, it was a relief that they were ok.

I hope they will nest again on the dish it was a pleasure watching them progress.