mourning dove

Not a very exciting or rare species. I just liked the background.

A lovely little mourning dove with a snow pile in front.

A couple of doves chowing down on some seed and keeping an eye out for the sharp shinned hawk.

Mourning dove in my yard, yesterday, with my new digicam - purchased for Xmas to replace my ageing CP4500

A mourning dove relaxing it`s eyes .

Doing some serious preening.

Garden solitude.

I saw this Mourning Dove in my garden and was able to get pretty close to it to take the picture. Usually they fly away when I get to close, but this one stayed where it was, although giving me a suspicious glance out of the corner of his eye all the while! :)

This mourning Dove has it's pink feet on the barbwire and it's tail resting on the charge wire to the fence charger (not on). I get a lot of my pictures of birds which have landed on out fence wire.

A mourning dove with some interesting shadows.

One of the local doves that likes to tempt the cats. They let the cats get within 10ft before they take off .Brave or stupid I just hopei don`t find a pile of feathers in the yard anytime sone.

I know it's a common bird, but I think the mourning dove is just incredibly beautiful.

A widespread but attractive wee dove.

on the ground in back yard

This was the first morning after the two chicks fledged. They were sitting in our front garden. (see previous picture for the whole story)

This perfect little creature was born and raised in a flower basket hanging in front of our entrance door. (We used the side door for one month) This was the last evening before both of them fledged. We used to call them " just an other Dove". Now we call them "our Dove". To...

These two fledglings have been hanging out in our backyard for the last week or so. It is the male that feeds them this time.

In the garden

Frequent visitors to my balcony - they are there every day to eat the seeds that drop from my feeder.