For years now, a pair of mourning doves will build their nest and lay eggs at my bedroom window. My room is blocked by a dark curtain that I keep closed so they wont get spooked by me but every year they end up abandoning their eggs.. one time a squirrel got to them so i removed some branches that were giving them access to the nest. She is here nesting again and I hope the babies will be born this time 🙏
I love these beautiful birds. I always have 2 sitting on my front porch. Or whenever I'm about to drive somewhere to do something I know I shouldn't be doing, they walk in front of my car to remind me not to leave. I love all birds but these little guys are so special. I just love their little bald heads
I have a Dove that has settled into our Tiki bar outside Shes so pretty & I have special Dove food & fresh water & she just stares at me with her big beautiful eyes I adore her and hope she stays in her new home
I absolutely adore mourning doves. Growing up, there was a breeding pair that lived in the pine tree in my mom's yard. Their descendants have stuck around and often come to the bird feeder along side the sparrows, chickadees and cardinals. There's a couple of breeding pairs where I live now. I had no idea that take off sound was produced by their wings!
My love for Pigeons and Doves and songbirds in general, is ever-growing as I get older. If I could buy up a large piece of land, I'd build a ecosystem full of native plants and trees and water and watch it flourish for them all. Thanks for your channel and your hard work and thanks for committing to this and teaching us. I can't express how invaluable and important learning about nature is; especially for the next generation. Cheers From Canada
I love Mourning Doves, so gentle and sweet. I have 3 or 4 pairs that come as a group to my feeder. I always have to be very quiet and subdued in my movements, so as not scare them, because they tend to be so shy. Thank you for the excellent video.
Mine used to hog up all the food, until i got two separate feeders and they finally started getting along with my chickadees. Besides being sometimes territorial, they’re quite nice.
Thank you for the Video, Last year a pair started to nest on my Window, after the first 2 Fledged I removed the nest as I didn't think it was going to come back. About 4 days later they returned and rebuilt the nest. So I felt bad that I removed it and she had 2 more eggs. After the second young fledged while the female was in my backyard on the ground picking up seeds the House Sparrows kick out of the feeders, she was taken by a Cat. The rest of the year the Male looked for a mate on my power wire about 60 feet from the old nest, Calling all day. This year he found a new mate and showed her the nest, After taking 4 to 5 tries to land on the nesting area she was able to and lay 2 eggs. After they Fledged, I took the time to test out a new camera I bought as I knew I had a few days before they would return. 5 or 6 days later she came back looked over the nest and left. So I removed the camera and added one that I could watch them this time. She lay 2 eggs and after about 7 or 8 days of laying on the eggs something my Guess it was a Screech Owl snatched her off the nest and from what I read on the Internet I watched in Horror as 3+ hours went by without anything keeping the eggs warm. Earlier then normal the male showed up 5:25 and kept sitting on the nest. I thought it was over because how would he be able to care for the eggs if they were to hatch alone. Crazy that night a female (I am guessing one of his) came and took over the night shift. On 6-23 the first egg hatched. I thought it was a Miracle. On the 24th the second egg had hatched. (So much for only being able to be off the nest for 30min) Tonight they are almost as big as Pappa. Today I notice the male is acting like he is looking for a replacement mate. Where before he was mostly seen on the nest but tonight for the first time he hung out on the Bird Feeder and was looking around and making calls, like he did earlier this year. I am amazed by the Doves for sure. I was honored when they chose my window to raise the young.
I always loved doves, I did not know there were so many varieties and how specialised they are in cooing, how interesting ! For gods sake, WHY do hunters kill so many, this is very irritating ...
Bc it's how we keep the population stable. They are a healthy part of your diet and very good. There's also another kind that can't believe they didn't mention and it's the white wing
Mourning doves are so cute. I love watching the two pairs of mourning doves that live in the pine tree in my yard look around for food. They've learned that I'm the one who throws the seed on the ground for them, so the males will land and wait for me to come out with some seed. They're so endearing.
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I've been feeding these two mourning doves this season since my cockatiel died. If you are slow and not abrupt, they are really friendly docile creatures. They really do not fear me at all, I get within a foot of them eating right out on my windowsill. With plenty of seed of course.
A pair of doves just made a nest in our hanging bird bath and hatched two babies. They just left the nest and I can't help but be worried. All I can think to do is keep providing fresh food and water so they have the best chance. Good luck out there kiddos.
i really loved these birds mostly cause one day my dad caught one when it was very young and we kept it inside cause one it was very pretty and my mother really loved and wanted to try to learn more about these birds and soon the dove became pretty much domesticated it would fly around our house to be on our heads and wasnt scared of any of my family members and when one day it flew out shortly came back and we took him back inside for the fear of pray around at the time. me and my siblings grew up with that bird and loved him till i think the 8th year when he passed and we still miss him and would love to be able to have another again
I used to sit on the back porch in upstate NY back in the 1970's as a teenager, and I would make the cooing sound with my mouth. It was a type of whistling. I could get those doves going. Now I just feed them.
I still do! They sing back. We have full on duets sometimes. It's not just the males who sing. I've watched them coupling up and enjoying a sunset together for several hours. Just up on a branch or power line, facing sideways to the sun to watch from one eye or the other, just up there coupled up, cuddling, preening, and singing to each other.
Beautiful video. Am well traveled and seen many beautiful birds, eagles , parrots , toucans etc.....but it's the mourning and white wing doves that I love the most !! The best way to tell juveniles from adults. Juveniles have no feathers on theibase of their lower jaw. Compare and contrast here 9:43
Thank you for this video! We have a suet block, and when the little Downy Woodpeckers come to the suet block (they always drop some on the ground) HERE COME THE DOVES! It’s the cutest thing! The Doves hang out up in the tree branches, and, no kidding, when the Woodpeckers come to the suet block, the Doves fly in and clean up. So Cute!
I love my doves. Right now, I have 6 mourning doves and 2 Eurasian ring necked doves that are my regulars. Each has a plate to eat out of, but there's always one who wants to stir the pot and wants everyone else's plate!
Thank you as finally learned something about this bird that I associate most with Hawai’i. I grew up hearing them and was away from the islands for 32 years. When I returned I found their cooing is an old comforting sound from childhood that I love. We also have a smaller one who is more shy than the larger one.
Thank you for the wonderful video for years I've heard that sound and I thought it wasn't an owl now I know that they were dulls all the time thank you I love the sound of the morning of the doves
I have always loved birds. Recently I have taken an interest in finding out about the birds that live near me. I see them all the time flying around. I have hummingbird feeders up and I plan to add feeders for the other birds as soon as I know more about what that looks like. . I have heard mourning doves for years. One has come on my back deck for water. I was so excited. Thank you for the video. Now I can look and see if it is a male or female.
Very interesting video! I have a pair of Mourning Doves nesting on a Robin Shelf I put up under the eave of my garage this year. I've always enjoyed watching the birds.
@@allthingsbirdie I'm here to see if I should help with seeds for a nesting female in our huge bougainvillea bush! I see her on nest all the time, don't know when she has time to eat! We have two huge 12 feet tall bougainvillea bushes (for 20 years) - they are bird condos for MANY quail, doves, a mockingbird (I think) and maybe occasional house wrens. We saw so many birds last summer, when it was extraordinarily hot in Phoenix, Arizona. Our yard provided a lot of food for them apparently, and safety from predators.
I have a pair that sit on the fan blades on my patio overhang. Their coo is very annoying at 5:30 am when I'm trying to sleep. Not liking them so much this year!
When my now-adult niece was a pre-teen, she didn't know the sound was coming from a dove---she complained to me about "the day owl" making "noise" outside her window when she was trying to sleep. 🙂
What about the crazy FIGHTING?? Today there were two mourning dove's going at it, round and round, kicking, wings flapping wildly, pecking hard and pulling off feathers of the other, lots of chasing - quite violent, really. It shocked me. Males? Territorial?
I have a ton of birds that are all around my backyard that look like these (dark grey bodies with black spots.... but smaller). They don't ever hoot/coo, though. They only chirp. I'm not convinced they are Mourning Doves, but nothing is coming up other than that when I search the web. I'm in northern California. Help!
Hmmm... I'm not sure. But! Download the Merlin Bird ID app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It has a Photo ID feature where you can upload pictures and it will give you a list of possible matches. There's also a sound ID feature. I've found it to be a very handy tool when out in the field. I hope this helps!
Super challenging to hunt. Usually lots of action though. People will often shoot 100-125 shotgun shells to get 15-20 doves. Some are better shots and almost never miss. But this is rare.
Another fun fact - They will sit down at your bird feeders like some rotund country family sitting at the Golden Corral feeding and feeding and feeding like they haven't eaten in weeks. Then they'll sit around like they just came out of the Cracker Barrell and will sit there talking to each other for an hour after gorging before moving on.
I started feeding these two doves and I left some food on my back porch and they obliterated the whole thing after coming home from work. I just laughed and got more. I love these doves.
There’s a third vocal sound that they make but you can only hear if you had a mourning dove as a pet or if you’re in close contact with them. Often made when they’re in distress, mourning dove will make a quieter coo repeatedly, sometimes they will make a louder and higher pitched coo when seeing a predator like a bird of prey. Also, in captivity they can live close to 20 years, mine sadly passed away 4 months before turning 15 years old
I can make a mourning dove call w/ my hands.. (make a hollow void between my palms, and blow into the thumbs ). Something my grandpa taught me. The other day a couple were close to me, and I was doing it.. It responded w/ a short hooo after each time I did it. Like... I hear that, but I know you're not a bird.... Also, indeed, if you're close to birds, they make a lot of different quiet sounds. Vastly more than the loud calls and whistles we attribute to them. If you're quiet/still and a few birds get comfortable and close, they make a constant chatter.. squeaks, clicks, clucks, all sorts of sounds.
We had a dove as a pet and it was funny,very friendly and loved to mess with my wife's hair.Favorite perch was our xmas tree which we left up for him until summer
Just a shame how bad they make a nest. In a bush outside my window, I saw a blue jay kill and eat the dove's young. Good wind will knock them down. First birds I see and hear in the morning.
I had mourning doves make a nest outside my window, I watched has they looked after their babies, it was something else, they're sweet birds, They abandoned the nest, because the babies are abit older now, but the young doves still come to sit on the branch facing my window, along with Mom, I silently watch them..I'm going to miss them when they leave. Thank you for the video, I love hearing the cooing noise..lol
Please do a video on Carolina wrens, they are my favorite , i have one that i feed in my yard, called her chonky dancer she so round n looks like she dances when she moves she brings me joy☺️
Mourning doves are the best birds. They stick around all winter and I loved walking out to the bus as a kid as the sun came up hearing their song. Since then I've lived all over the US and they're always there, singing the same song with a different ending depending on where you are, but always beautiful. I'm happy that growing up in backwoods NH I'd hear their songs every day with 2 feet of snow, and now I'm in Phoenix and still privileged to that beautiful melody.
Nice! I’ve been walking my dog every day for 14 yrs, and can’t count the times we’ve encountered mourning doves! I always look forward to their spring appearance. I’ve actually gotten pretty good at mimicking their coo. I’ve noticed that sometimes they only use two tones (instead of three) after the initial call. I wish I knew what was going through their head… probably saying, “You’re not fooling me!” In my area, they seem to prefer the roofline ridges. Nature is amazing… though I was saddened by the hunting statistics of these beautiful birds!
Thanks for this wonderful video. My family rescued one., almost died with a pox but it didn’t and now it’s a pet., can’t release him 🥹but it’s our reminder every day., giving up it’s not an option. I mean even the wild animal rescue then told us he would die., but he did not.
Hello, in recent months I have seen this bird perch on top of a post, a tree or a house and it flies upwards diagonally and descends gliding as if it were a falcon. Unfortunately, I have not been able to record it.😔
0:33 are those big piles of bird doo doo on that branch!!! Stop feeding them all that bird seed! It’s blowing out their backside like a fire hose!!! At least try switching brands. 😂😂😂
