Starchy Compliment · @starchydish
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"Not only do they not harm any other species, they are also actually beneficial to farmers and gardeners. The fact that they eat the seeds from unwanted weeds and waste grain makes them excellent at clearing the ground of seeds you don't want to sprout."

Joy to Have Around, Mourning Doves Mate for Life: How to Attract Them to Your Yard

housedigest.com/1328648/attrac via House Digest
Photo: Bonnie Taylor Barry/Shutterstock/House Digest

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Last updated 1 year ago

Me to me: letโ€™s grab the camera & see what the birds are up to.

Birds: oh hey! Weโ€™re posing for pictures ๐Ÿฃ


#chicks #mourningdoves #babybirds #birds #birdsofmastodon

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Frank · @ADignorantium
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Birds Books and Bullshit · @NanoBookReview
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Joe Crawford · @artlung
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10 days ago a bird Kelly noticed a bird started hanging out on our balcony. Wednesday last Kelly noticed it was a pair and they were building a nest in a disused pot and theyโ€™ve kept at it. Yesterday and overnight one of the pair was nesting continuously. This morning, Easter, hereโ€™s 2 mourning dove eggs. New life, indeed. Happy Easter!

#easter #mourningdoves

Last updated 1 year ago

JanArz · @JanArz
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handmade ghost · @handmade_ghost
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I'm trying to imagine the conversation these two are having while they watch the riot of red-wings, starlings, sparrows, and quail flocking around the feeder below them.

#mourningdoves #backyardbirds #oregon #statlerandwaldorf

Last updated 1 year ago

handmade ghost · @handmade_ghost
178 followers · 76 posts · Server mstdn.games

There were about eight or ten hunkered in the backyard late yesterday afternoon, anticipating the chilling winter winds that shortly began to blow through, sharp and tinseled with ice, as the cold clouds blurred out the moonrise. So chonky and floomfed (those are both words, right?).

#mourningdoves #backyardbirding #oregon

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Swedeโ€™s Photographs · @Swede1952
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@maggiejk

Mourning Doves in the morning.

You were right Maggie, there are two. I took this photo when the dogs took me for a walk this morning, same tree, and I'm pretty sure it's the same bird(s) though I didn't ask for ID ๐Ÿ˜…. Their feathers are puffed because it's cold out this morning.

#birds #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birdwatching #birdwatchingphotography #birdsofmastodon #mourningdoves

Last updated 1 year ago

Traci Van Wagoner · @TraciVanWagoner
79 followers · 41 posts · Server booktoot.social

Must be the mild weather this year, the mourning doves are loving the bird feeder. Five more on the ground enjoyed what now is a quite large amount of bird feed that's been spewn about.
Side note - spent most of my life thinking they were "morning" doves. Made sense since that was generally when I'd hear them. Nope, just sad.

#birdsofmastodon #birdfeeder #mourningdoves

Last updated 1 year ago

Deb Oppermann · @DebOppermann
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a.m. radiofairyland · @handmade_ghost
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One of my neighborhood mourning doves, gorgeously made up and showing off eir blue eyeshadow.

I love walking in stormy weather, as the stormcloud light brings out colors I can't catch in sunlight through my tinted glasses.

#birdsofmastodon #mourningdoves #eyeshadow

Last updated 2 years ago

Kat · @kat3638
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