A non-materialistic thing of beauty

[donkey_hokey]

A pair of doves are building a nest in the large cherry tree in the front yard. Mom is sitting in there (don't know if there's eggs yet, and I'm not about to disturb them to find out). Dad is transporting twigs and grass

Comments

[ciarrainic]

Groovy.

[donkey_hokey]

Yes :)

[generalripper]

We had some birds that were scouting out nesting locations in the back of our house. Their choices seemed to be a small sheltered ledge over our patio, and on top of the downspout pipe under the roof at the corner of the house. They went with the downspout pipe, probably because there was too much traffic on the patio.

Unfortunately the downspout pipe is right next to one of our security spotlights. One night the nest caught fire! Lucky I had a fire extinguisher. Fortunately, the nest was uninhabited - by bird or egg - at the time, so there were no casualties.

[donkey_hokey]

Ow! I'm glad nothing got hurt...

Most of the birds building nests near our house do it in the garage.

Doves

[wicky_42]

Hi,

I have a nest in the bank of mailboxes in front of my house. The maillady actually posted a message saying she would pick up mail in our individual boxes. I want to see the tiny birds perch on the edge of the box and fly away.

It's neat to see things like this in the midst of our busy urban lives, right/

Take care, keep an eye on them.

wicky

Re: Doves

[donkey_hokey]

It's going to be interesting watching the development.

[adjust_56]

Bird seed would be lovely!!....Enjoy

[donkey_hokey]

I put it out the night after I discovered them :)