Just an FYI: Doves don't eat worms. They are seed eaters exclusively. You can buy dove seed if you want to feed them.

@crs7937

Жыл бұрын

and you can buy doves...if you want to feed the cats! I have five cats...all indoor cats with 3 floors to play around in!

@2degucitas

Жыл бұрын

Silly British man. Robins eat worms!

@donabolt3079

Жыл бұрын

Our doves like the cracked corn in the chicken pen

@loura246

Жыл бұрын

I've cared for doves at multiple reputable zoos and while seeds are definitely part of their diet, we always fed them minced produce as well.

@MontgomeryWenis

Жыл бұрын

Except for when they're babies. They also eat crop milk.

A pair of mourning doves would frequent my yard too, and dig up seeds that fell from our hanging bird feeder. This week though, one of them passed away, and I buried her under her favorite maple tree. Her mate wouldn’t leave her body and even paced around that same spot for days after she was gone. Since she died, I’m trying to make sure that he is well fed and that their chicks are safe from harm. People really underestimate the emotional and intellectual capacity of these birds. I love them so much.

@bess8523

Жыл бұрын

Kind of you🥰

@buffman09

Жыл бұрын

There is a reason they call them mourning doves, you are very kind to these magnificent creatures

@brandyjean7015

Жыл бұрын

Yes, seed (not worm) eaters.

@10.11.9

Жыл бұрын

@@buffman09 What is magnificent about them?

@Mercifulkingdom

Жыл бұрын

@@10.11.9 they are biblical they are also spoke of in the holy scriptures of the Bible.

I love these chubby little birds. I love how they walk instead of hop. Their sad cooing is beautiful in the evening.

@Decrtgy

Жыл бұрын

On a cold morning half asleep and you hear them

@mellie4174

Жыл бұрын

Love thier call too. One of my favorite things that i miss here in France

@Caleb-fv5fp

Жыл бұрын

I’m so glad they are back and they didn’t go extinct

@tysonfontanez

Жыл бұрын

they're the main kind of bird I see where I live, even more prevalent than rock pigeons, and they are so fun to watch

@MikehMike01

Жыл бұрын

@@Caleb-fv5fp they’ve never been close to extinction

My parents had mourning doves around their home. My mom always liked that particular type of bird. The morning after my father died, I was over at their home, making breakfast for my Mom. As we sat at the kitchen table, a mourning dove suddenly flew and perched on the outside windowsill, right next to my Mom's chair. He sang his song for awhile, then flew off. This continued every morning for about a week. My Mom and Dad always used to have breakfast together every morning. It was their quiet time together. Up until the day my Mom passed away she felt as if that mourning dove was my Dad - spending just as few last mornings together.

@amandah.1468

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful story. Thank you for sharing.

@infallibleblue

11 ай бұрын

It probably was.

@t-murph9371

11 ай бұрын

Damn man that’s so sad I’m so sorry to hear that god bless you

@megnotmegan1966

4 ай бұрын

I believe it❤

Doves mate for life. When there is only one, you'll know something has happened and there won't be a replacement.

@jennifergreen3538

Жыл бұрын

Yes, when we put out bird feeders 8 yrs ago we soon had 2 pairs of mourning doves coming by daily. Then 3 yrs ago, one dove started coming by itself. We can only assume it's mate died, and it's been alone ever since. I never knew I could care about a wild bird's mental health but I do! I hope it's not too bored or lonely.

@sixfeetundertheradar6080

Жыл бұрын

Pigeons do too!!

@sixfeetundertheradar6080

Жыл бұрын

Oh and geese!

@Nee96Nee

Жыл бұрын

Doves and pigeons are different names of the same species.

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Look at bird bath 🌴👍

I love Mourning Doves. Their coo and the whistling sound their wings make when they take to flight from the ground. You're looking quite dapper by the way. Enjoyed your meet up with Shaun.

@spiritmatter1553

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s the perfect description of the sound their wings make. “Whistling.” I think mourning doves are special too.

@ipaintstuff4884

Жыл бұрын

The word "dapper" should be used much more often.

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Look at bird bath 👀🌊

@vger2

Жыл бұрын

I can’t stand the noise this bird makes. It literally has me researching ways to attract more birds of prey to the area.

@ipaintstuff4884

Жыл бұрын

@@vger2 Well that's a bit much I mean you could just ignore it.

I used to use my hands to mimic mourning doves on my walk home. They used to come in drove to listen to the human that could do their call. It started out with like three watching me and ended up with the entire power line flooded every time I came off the bus. I was like a Disney princess lol

@user-wj2zv1vd8y

2 ай бұрын

Awesome!

@uppercasedtheelowercases3123

Ай бұрын

Oh my beep!!! Me too. Minus the droves.

Years ago I was given one with a broken wing by friends at work. Because I had a few birds they felt I would be best able to help this bird. Well a trip to the vet got her on the road to recovery but she would never fly again. So I set her up in a quiet part of the house and the wife & I sang with her daily for the next eight years. I had no idea they could live so long. She was a wonderful bird to have around. Years later we still miss her answering back everytime someone called "Whoo Whoo"...

@irisblue2332

9 ай бұрын

In high school I used to occasionally pet sit for one of the rangers in our parks district. She had a number of unusual animals that could no longer live in the wild because of injuries. One was a dove named Sparkles. I would form a fist like the little hand puppet where you move your thumb up and down to make the puppet's "mouth" move. Sparkles would stick her beak in the mouth hole. I would gently shake my fist a little saying "Got your beak! Got your beak!" and Sparkles would basically bird giggle like a child playing "Got your nose." Not sure which of us were more amused by it!

@donaldvincent

9 ай бұрын

@@irisblue2332 That is a great story. Thanks for sharing. I named ours "Mary" after a favorite aunt. It is amazing how much we came to love this random bird that fell into our lives. If I ever end up with another one I will certainly try your "puppet" game to bring some enjoyment to their life. (mine too). 🙂

I’ve experienced this many years ago and each year a pair of birds would return to my window ledge. I would speak to them in hopes of not scaring them. No idea if they got used to me talking to them but they and their babies would look at me. It was pure joy to see them every year.

@californiahiker9616

Жыл бұрын

Same here. I had a pair lay eggs and raise their young 3 separate times in one season. They put their nest on top of a pillar just under the eaves. They weren’t aware I was able to watch from behind the window. I watched the „changing of the guard“ many times. Then I watched the young being fed. Finally, out of the nest and into the street. It was a wonderful! experience. I missed them once the breeding stopped.

@spyone4828

Жыл бұрын

There is a small tree in my yard near my door and a pair of doves decided it was theirs. They just became neighbors. As I was leaving for work I would say things like "Good evening, missus Dove. Nice day today, isn't it."

@thomgandet8369

Жыл бұрын

In Tucson, where it is very hot and very sunny, a dove and/or its mate, would nest in the gutter at least twice a year. In full sun. At temperatures north of 100F. They were called "dopey doves", because wouldn't you be after that?

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Look at bird bath 🐄🐝

@PleaseDontEatAnimals

Жыл бұрын

I'm so envious! My partner and I became bird watchers during the pandemic and enjoy seeing baby birds in the wild, but none have chosen our yard to raise their babies...yet. 🤞

Beautiful! The parents actually push the birds out of the nest to the ground where they "fledge". The parents come back to feed the fledglings but lengthen the times between feedings while staying nearby so that the fledgling starts to learn to fly. If you know you have fledglings, try to keep cats out of your yard. At night the parents will tuck them into a safer space or a hole in the ground until they become more mobile. We watched a fledgling who was slow to learn to fly and the parent bird literally gave him lessons and wing stretches 🤣. It's really neat to watch.

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Nova Conetta, look at bird bath

@himhim3344

Жыл бұрын

Cats should never be outside anyways

@cosmiccoyotedog-doreenb9605

Жыл бұрын

How interesting, didn't know that. Thanks

@gardenofeels6872

Жыл бұрын

Not true. Birds do not push their babies from the nest. That's an old and persistent myth. The fledgling come out of the nest on their own when they are old enough. The timeframe varies with each species. The parents also do not "tuck" the youngsters anywhere, including a hole in the ground. They fledglings go where they want to after they leave the nest. But it is true that the parents continue to feed them until they can fend for themselves. I'm an ornithologist and an associate with the Cornell University of Dept. of Ornithology.

@novaconetta1577

Жыл бұрын

@@gardenofeels6872 Hmm maybe our birds do it differently. Maryland must have some rogue mourning dove parenting skills.

I’m from Canada. My childhood summer mornings are associated with cooing morning doves. I love that sound on early, dewy, cool summer mornings!

@memeosophy

Жыл бұрын

Ssme here in Mexico!

@johnransom1146

Жыл бұрын

Me too. Nova Scotia

@lunathedruid1507

Жыл бұрын

not to be rude but make sure it's "mourning" not "morning" which have VERY different meanings

@kevinireland8020

Жыл бұрын

Put a k in the middle of that cooing and I'm with ya.

@Lisared023

Жыл бұрын

Me, too! Warms my heart when I hear it!

When I was young, we had a spruce tree in the yard. A pair of mourning doves built a nest on a branch just eye level with me. We watched several broods of dove fledglings grow up. Those birds were very tolerant of me poking my little head into the tree to watch them. One time, one of the parents actually stood up and let me see their eggs. It was a huge thing to me, and I am grateful to those friendly little birds

Birds can be an amazing source of entertainment and joy. I've got a family of crows that live out behind my home. They have been here for years and quite a few generations. We've even gotten friendly. Occasionally i leave them some scraps of meat or food, a can of cat food or some such when the weather is bad. And ever so often i find little shiny things wrapped in twigs or leaves on my doorstep or windshield of my car. Even see them dropping them off once or twice, always glance at my window before flying off. A really awesome feeling and a bit of extended family. :)

@JediBunny

Жыл бұрын

That’s lovely

@leonardking84

Жыл бұрын

Crows are awesome. They are so intelligent !!!

@Unsensitive

Жыл бұрын

My wife wants an extended crow family. She always gets excited when she sees them near our house

@TheGypsyVanners

Жыл бұрын

@@Unsensitive me too!

@neosunrider

10 ай бұрын

"shiny things wrapped in twigs or leaves" ^_^' So adorable they would even wrap the gift for you

The baby doves are likely in your yard. The parents usually feed them for two or three weeks after they start to fly. Keep the cat out of the yard and they should be fine. We had some in our apartment building that would roost on our balcony railings at night.

@apointtomake1517

Жыл бұрын

those chicks were not capable of flying they still had down feathers... a hawk or gull got them.

@namelesswolf2625

Жыл бұрын

@@apointtomake1517 fledglings do not always fly immediately. this is what makes them vulnerable to cat or dog attacks at this stage.

@silas8772

Жыл бұрын

@@apointtomake1517 Definitely not; that ledge is too sheltered for a hawk to stoop into, the babies were old enough to fledge, and the parents probably wouldn't have returned if their nest had been raided by a predator.

My little boy always does the "mourning dove call" when he goes outside he loves when they "answer" it's so cute.

The coo of a mourning dove is comforting and nostalgic to me. They're all over my hometown, it reminds me of childhood.

We've had mourning doves in the same (silly) nesting spot for more than 60 years. I love them and it's always sad when after many years one shows up without the partner. Their second marriages seem quite successful though.

I had a similar experience as a kid. When my family used to live in NY, we lived in an old Victorian house that had some broken windows or missing window panes. Because of this, a pair of mourning doves decided to nest in a window on the south side of our house. We never opened it anyway, so they were safe where they nested. The storm window and screen were missing, but the inside pane was still intact, so we could get a close view and distinctly hear their cooing. The same pair came back every year for a few years. It was quite the experience!

@susanunger2278

Жыл бұрын

I had something similar when I was a kid in an old, Victorian house.

@lorettaross5146

Жыл бұрын

About 20 years ago I was living in an old house that was in really bad repair and every now and again birds would get inside. Once my cat caught one and I wrestled it away from her and took it back outside to release it (she hadn't hurt it). When I came back in she very deliberately climbed up in my lap and smelled my breath. 🤣

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Look at bird bath 🍉😂

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Hannah, look at bird bath

I've had a pair of Mourning Doves nesting at my house for over a decade. I absolutely adore seeing them every year! I even saved the female once years ago when she was hurt by some kind of creature (cat, raccoon, etc). She had a broken wing and leg, but healed up beautifully and was able to reunite with her mate a few months later.

@stevehatcher7700

3 ай бұрын

Decade? It's very, very, likely not the same pair. Maybe the children, or by now, great-great-grandchildren of that pair. Average life span is 2 to 4 years.

Pigeons make great pets, so similar to doves, very low maintenance, & the ‘fancy’ ones are so diverse & beautiful.

@BarbBondVO

Жыл бұрын

For some strange reason I’ve always ended up with female doves, except for my one male pigeon. He was hilarious and a total mama’s boy. He loved hiding under furniture or sneaking up on me in the kitchen and biting toes. So silly. My current-and yes, female-dove is by far the most happy-go-lucky one. I swear she’s the Tigger of doves.

@infallibleblue

Ай бұрын

They poop a lot

This is the kind of story we need right now.

I’m trying to imagine what sort of complexes those baby birds will have, when one of their daily constants while growing up, was a Brit in a weird unicorn hat with long flaps…. But they were precious and I’m happy you were a baby bird uncle for a time.🐝🤗❤️

I felt this exact way watching nesting mockingbirds in the garden. And then the babies would use the patio furniture to practice flying. So freaking cute! 😍

I never knew the name of any birds so I always referred to the mourning dove as “The bird with the deep voice” but the soft coo of the mourning dove being my natural alarm on weekends and over the summer is one of the most beautiful things I can think of

Laurence Brown's stunning Ornithological melodrama is a masterpiece.......5 stars!

@BirdBath1

Жыл бұрын

Sirge, look at bird bath

For the last 2 years there have been a pair of bald eagles nesting in a tree in our back yard in western Louisiana, each year they have raised a pair of chicks, then disappearing in June or July, and then returning to start the nesting process over again in the same location around October or November.

@LindaC616

Жыл бұрын

At my last apartment, because it was in an old mansion, there was a roof over the side porch about 10" below 2 of my bedroom windows. We had a pair of chicken hawks (or red tailed hawks) in the neighborhood. 1 morning, the baby woke me up on the roof of the side porch, crying because it was big enough to fly around, but not big enough to hunt for itself, and it wanted mommy and daddy to feed it

@dw3403

Жыл бұрын

@@LindaC616 LOL. Its so true. I was not able to see the nesting stage but I got to experience this. I heard the most heart rending cry of a bird. I looked towards the neighbors yard and saw a large bird sitting on top of the crooked top of a tree. It made the most pathetic cry. But then I heard another bird in the sky and when I looked up there was mom flying in circles hunting for food. The baby ( looked bigger than her because it still had the underfluff of feathers), would be quiet for a while. It was an eagle and I had to laugh because it is just like kids. Mom, I am starving, she would cry back. Mom where are you? Right here.

@LindaC616

Жыл бұрын

@@dw3403 lol, I called mine "the millenial falcon"

@dw3403

Жыл бұрын

@@LindaC616 So cute. lol

@ephennell4ever

Жыл бұрын

Cool! Would love to have a nesting pair of Bald Eagles by me! But the area of the city I'm in ... some folks would probably be taking pot-shots at 'em with some .22s ...😠

Mourning Doves are such sweet and gentle birds and make a very soothing cooing sound.

Mourning dove calls are such a familiar sound to me. They're such a comfort. I don't have dove telly on my office window sill, but I get the Corvid Turf Wars on my lawn. It's been a decade-long saga between the Bluejays, crows, and the Mockingbirds with the Cardinals acting as a neutral party.

I laughed so much at this video. Your cat is a legend 😅

@catsinhouse

Жыл бұрын

Is Kafka a Russian Blue?

For the past five years a pair of mourning doves has nested in the tree outside my window. This year they didn't. Most days I still have two pairs that come by for breakfast from my bird feeder; I guess they moved on to a better neighborhood 😅 💙🌿

@sandybarnes887

Жыл бұрын

Or one or both of then died

@fridaylong2812

Жыл бұрын

@@sandybarnes887 How rude.

@sandybarnes887

Жыл бұрын

@@fridaylong2812 how the heck can that possible be rude?

I've had mourning doves nest on my balcony. One year they nested in a hanging planter, had three babies hatch out! Couple of years later, that planter was empty (had a coconut husk bottom, so empty it's just a few strips of metal) and on a table... They put like ten pieces of pine straw down and laid their eggs early one spring. One egg fell off the table, the other two I think died from lack of insulation on the bottom... They truly are terrible and lazy nest builders.

@sxatcychan1988

Жыл бұрын

I once described the birds in my neighborhood this way, "Blue jays are crafty. Robins are resourceful. Cardinals are dumb, but feisty. Mourning doves are just dumb."

@spazzyshortgirl23

3 ай бұрын

If you haven’t discovered the subreddit stupiddovenests…you need to

Great video!! Who said the Brits don't have a sense of humor... not me! Mourning doves are cool, Kafka is a perfect name for your cat, love the unicorn hat!! Thanks for taking me on this journey!

Oh, Laurence, you're so adorable! I love your bird/cat/human drama video!! 😘🤩👍 🕊️🐈🏃

@loveit7484

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

Doves do make such a soothing sound. A drawback is that there is a chance your window sill will be infested by pigeon mites.

@LindaC616

Жыл бұрын

😬

@craffte

Жыл бұрын

Ooowey.

@ephennell4ever

Жыл бұрын

Hmm, a good reason to leave the window tightly closed!

@ebeb516

Жыл бұрын

@Karalevsky Borzoi diatomaceous earth is extremely dangerous if inhaled though.

@gardenofeels6872

Жыл бұрын

@@ebeb516 The mites will die immediately if inhaled. They are external parasites and cannot live inside an animal's body.

In the small town on the prairies where my grandparents lived, the cooing of mourning doves was the most typical sound we hear. Even to this day, the sound of mourning doves sound like home to me.

I’ve lived around mourning doves my whole life and can’t image a place without them. They’re so cute. 🥰

All my life I have enjoyed those sweetly cooing doves. I found out recently that the squeaky chirp I heard when they take off into flight is not a vocalisation at all, but a sound their wings make. …something new every day…

I was lucky enough to have a nest in my hanging planter. Mom let me gently water my plant around her nest. She even let me pet her. I did daily picture updates of the babies, who all grew and left the nest. I didn’t hang planters again until after they did their nests.

The Mourning Dove is one of my favorite birds. I love its mournful coo coo coo.

If you put black sunflower seeds or millet somewhere in your yard away from the nest, they love that. Doing this brought a flock of 15 doves to my backyard. Edit - or buckwheat grouts.

The Mourning Doves in my area make this hilarious grimy hooting sound whenever they come in for a landing, literally announcing their presence. Our cul-de-sac is very safe for them and we have a number of regulars show up at our feeders fairly often. There's always at least one male trying to get some, as he does his little display and mating calls to the local hens, but he's soundly rejected by them every time!

@LisaKnobel

Жыл бұрын

Are they European Collared Doves? Those are invasive species. Not a fan myself. They are roosting above my house and making a huge mess.

thank you for sharing, just subscribed - I had a pair that laid their eggs in my hanging petunia basket. They are a delight to watch - they are such great parents. I knew the day was coming when the baby birds would leave the nest but was still so sad when I came home from work and everyone was gone...

We watch them in our yard every day. They typically don’t bother the other birds and they have a quiet peace about them.

Mourning doves are one of my favorite byerds. Their calls remind me of early summer mornings waking up in a tent to quite sunsets sitting on the porch. I able to mimic their call as well and can bring them over, but sadly not to the point where they will ride on my shoulder as if I'm the dove whisperer.

For years, a pair of these mourning doves would come and nest in my yard, especially in one of the hanging flower pots. My mom started calling them "Romeo and Juliet".

So happy this happened, living vicariously through you. I had a pair of mourning doves visit my balcony with increasing regularity since February, just enjoying the sun and pecking for seeds in an empty plant pot. I went away for vacation the first week of May and when I returned I found they had nested and were incubating two eggs. I work from home so for quite a while these birds were my companions during the day, and I could watch them switch shifts. Until about a week later, a large crow came by and scared the mother bird away. She returned to the nest after 30 minutes, but less than an hour later the crow returned and sacred her again. She abandoned her nest, and by the morning, the eggs had been eaten. It was heartbreaking as we were so excited to see them form a family, and I had gotten emotionally attached to these wild animals. Small tragedies like this happen quite often unfortunately, but I still see the doves around the neighborhood so I’m sure that by now they have found a new nesting location and hopefully have had a brood. I heard mourning doves can have multiple broods in a season.

@inlandempress4587

Жыл бұрын

mine are working on brood 3 this year but I worry about the crows🙏🏽😪

Mourning doves are my favorite birds! The ones in my yard are hilarious to watch every day. I've never seen any creature so completely unbothered by everything happening around it as those doves. I once watched one get blown halfway across the yard by a 50mph wind gust, rolling the whole way, and then just pop back up, shake its feathers out, and go right back to bopping around looking for food like nothing had just happened. They're out there every day, rain or shine, hail or blizzard. Just looking content as can be and cooing away. Love those birds. 😂

I absolutely love these little guys! There were a few mourning doves that lived in my childhood neighborhood and would always perch in a tree outside my bedroom window. For years, they were my wake-up call. They have such a soothing coo, and they have the cutest little faces.

I'm so glad you got to witness the miracle of baby birds in the nest. I find it really life affirming, especially the first time you see it. My first time was a family of house finches that lived in a wreath on my front door when I was in my 20s (almost 20 years ago). From nest building, to egg laying, incubating, hatching, feeding, cleaning and fledging, I could watch the whole family drama unfold through the little windows in the door. It was truly amazing, and, like you and your doves, I'll never forget it. Cheers! Do be careful, from that moment on, my destiny was set and now it seems my whole life revolves around birds. I've counted 84 species on the farm over the years...

If you enjoy having birds around, try putting up a wren house. Nice thing about wrens is you don’t have to put out any birdseed. They eat bugs and such. Wrens sing nicely and quite loudly for such tiny birds. A wren house will be fairly small, and have an entrance hole only 1 inch or maybe 1 1/8 inch in diameter, no bigger. You should easily be able to put one up on your balcony. The only maintenance is cleaning the house out each fall. A hummingbird feeder is another great way to enjoy birds with little or no mess. It’s more trouble, though because you need to wash it out and fill with fresh sugar water at least once a week. (Buy the cheapest granulated sugar at the cheapest grocery store. It will be fine. Way cheaper than any prepared hummingbird nectar.)

@monkeytennis7477

Жыл бұрын

Wrens are feisty little things! I left my back door open one day to air out the house (Florida) and a wren flew right in the back door and landed in my front room! I had a hard time convincing it that it shouldn't be in my house, but it did eventually go out the front door when shooed gently away with a whisk broom. Silly bird.

There are a ton of mourning doves around my grandmother’s house in Texas, and I’ve always equated them to her and her place. I live in Oregon and haven’t really seen or heard them wherever I’ve lived. My grandmother passed away last June and I bought a house last August. There is at least one mourning dove couple in my neighborhood, and they frequently hang out on my porch. I love their sound and it reminds me of my grandmother. It makes me so happy to have them around I’m installing a dove friendly birdhouse!

@alexamerling79

Жыл бұрын

What part in Oregon? I live in Oregon and I've seen them and those Eurasian doves

I had mourning doves build a nest on top of my window AC unit a long time ago. It was nice having a front row seat.

I got squirrels nesting under my window air conditioner, which meant four or five baby squirrels rolling around adorably on the sill that ran under both the AC and the window right next to it for a week or two, and two cats just freaking out inside watching them. It was the best.

birds are amazing animals

The sound we all remember from our childhood.

The morning my brother passed there was one outside his window. It was there for an hour singing and then left. It made me feel a sense of comfort.

This was really interesting because I've heard their distinctive calls throughout my entire life but never really seen one up close

@b43xoit

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it's a haunting call and it always reminds me of the bad times I experienced with someone.

@hamsterama

Жыл бұрын

It's very easy to bring mourning doves to your yard, if you want to see them up close. Keep in mind that mourning doves feed on the ground, they can't use bird feeders. I bought a couple used large stainless steel pet bowls for cheap at a thrift store. I keep one filled with water, and I fill the other one daily with a nut and fruit bird seed mix. I put the bowls out every day in my backyard. Doing this is a great way to attract all sorts of cool birds. Just make sure to bring the food bowl inside after sundown, if there are any leftovers. Otherwise, you'll attract vermin, like mice or rats.

@marthak1618

Жыл бұрын

They are amazingly well camouflaged. When on the ground, you can look right at them and not see them.

@shethra77

Жыл бұрын

Throw some black oil sunflower seeds out your back door. You'll get all sorts of birds, including mourning doves.

@mariatomko4278

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@@hamsterama I love them so I got hanging platform bird feeders just for them 🙂

You, sir, have better a script than 90% of Hollywood's "blockbuster" movies... The way you pull the audience in with the dramatic flair and hit them with the dry humor punch is wonderful. I've often sat on my front deck listening (and calling back) to the doves that have the top branch apartment in the 2 trees that make up my TWEETER feed in the front yard. Hearing them call to the 5 distinct nests around the neighborhood as if they are on a party line while the other 27 variety of birds take turns tweeting, chirping, screeching, and clucking can often drive me to distraction while I eat my supper. They make a fantastic foil to the drone of the near-constant droning of the nightly news anchors who beg for my attention inside.

The sound of their cooing in a summer evening is one of the great sounds I grew up with: a "mourning" melancholy-sounding song. Very nostalgic to me. Laurence, consider doing a bit on the American robin--utterly different from the European variety.

There is an old Art Deco masterpiece of a building downtown that I sometimes have the honor to guard at night. In the spring and summer, there are mourning doves that nest up in one of the vents under the front archway.

I have lived in middle Tennessee for 40 years and I have never seen the mourning dove in my yard and I have 3 1/2 acres for them to nest in. I do however have quite a few house wrens nest in my Althea bushes, along with quite a few hummingbirds who also love the Altheas as well as my peonies and my azaleas. And because I have quite a few trees I have an abundance of wood Peckers as well. This means I am frequently treated to answering a knock on the door and finding out that it was not in fact a knock at the door but a woodpecker I have a hole in it. There’s also a Chihuahua sized Moluccan cockatoo that resides in my bedroom. She much like your cat, rejoices in sunbeams, knocking things over and knocking things off of things, writing everything and everyone, chasing the neighbor boy, hanging upside down like a bat off the side of her cage while screaming at you shouting at an ear shattering decibel and flapping her wings like a 747 just about to take flight. The amount of win she can stir up with those wings it’s nothing short of amazing. If you enjoy the doves on the window I highly recommend you consider third of your own. Oh and just a heads up birds are extremely brutal animals. My cockatoo is named the outlaw Josey Belle can easily best cat in MMA fighting ring.

@mercster

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I live in East Tennessee, not sure I've seen them either. Then again, I don't get out much.

@Bargle5

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@@mercster I also live in East Tennessee and have doves round my house all year.

@stgermain1074

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I live in Middle TN (outside of M'boro on a small farm) and see them all the time around my bird feeders. They don't perch at the feeders, they eat the seed thrown down by pickier birds.

@ephennell4ever

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All the hook-bills can be dangerous, if they decide to be!

@UmatsuObossa

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I'm in middle TN, I started to get mourning doves after I started feeding them. Pretty much any birdseed scattered on the ground they will eat. They prefer to nest on ledges rather than trees though, so mayve you just don't have any attractive ledges?

They tend to return to the same nesting place every year. Mine always do.

As a child visiting my grandparents in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, I would wake up to the haunting sound of mourning doves. I am instantly transported back to my childhood whenever I hear the call of a mourning dove.

A few years back, I was working on the 8th floor of an office building in the city and a pair of pigeons (cousins to these doves) built a nest on the ledge of our window. We got to watch the whole process from nest and eggs, to the young growing up and flying off, too. It also took about a month total.

This whole time, I thought they were “morning doves”, as opposed to evening doves. LOL Then I thought, maybe Laurence is just putting his British spin on the spelling. Nope! They are actually mourning doves. Kind of sad… I preferred morning. Oh well, great video!

@russb24

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I always assumed it's because of their sad-sounding call.

@chrisk5651

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I thought that it was morning as well!

@lijohnyoutube101

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Its due to their call. My grandma always called them by their quite old fashioned name turtle doves which is also an odd naming.

@skidmark316

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@@lijohnyoutube101 I always wondered what a "turtle dove" was in the song 12 days of Christmas, now I know, thanks.

@californiahiker9616

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They aren’t “mourning“, but to some people their call sounds like someone is mourning. I don’t like the name much, either. The doves are very cute and should have a nicer name. While turtle dove is a cuter name, I’m not sure that’s very accurate. Oh well.

Aww, this was so sweet. Thank you very much for sharing such a wholesome experience with us. I've taken to putting out seeds, nuts, and water every day for the resident birds and squirrels and some day my dog won't terrify them with her breed-specific desire to chomp them.

I love Mourning Doves! There are a pair in my apartment complex who nested in a tree next to my building for 5 Springs in a row. Then a bad storm came and damaged the nest. A Robin (Red Breast) came a nested in that tree two Springs in a row until the nest was completely destroyed by another storm. For many years I called that tree "Mama Mourning Dove's Tree". I still see her and her mate "Percy" flying around with their babies. =3:

For years, I had a pair nest in a hanging basket on my porch. Their genetics were substandard; only 1 baby from each clutch would make it. I moved after a few years and I've often wondered if someone else put up a hanging basket or if they relocated.

I have two of those friends that sit on our deck and peak through the window at me. Mister and Mrs. Peabody. And might I add that Sir Laurence is looking quite slim and svelte.

The dove pair surely must feel at ease with you since they stayed around to have their children at your window. Mi casa es su casa or in your case, the empty nest will always be a happy home. Consider yourself a lucky duck.

I am in Southern New Mexico. I have a birdie buffet on my patio. I have two Mourning Doves, six finches and six sparrows visit every day 🕊🕊 my kitty sits in the window all day. They aren't worried 😊

I love your video's Lawrence. I've always loved British humor and now that you live in America discovering it's vast enchantments and pleasures, it makes the entertainment even better. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

About five years ago, we had a mourning dove couple build a nest in the overhead light of our back deck. Yes, inside the light fixture (which normally would have had glass in the gaps, making that impossible. But we have very strong winds and we removed the glass, lest the winds blow the fixture around and shatter said glass.) It was fun because we could sit and watch mama bird (who barely fit in the confines of this lamp) sitting on her nest. And then the babies arrived. SEVERE SPACE SHORTAGE. There literally weren't room for all three fledglings, and sure enough, one fell out shortly after birth (RIP bird #1). The second fell out about a week later (RIP bird #2). The remaning fledgling lasted and, we presume, flew away one day (we didn't find a body like we had the other two). Parents were, indeed, back the next year. But presumably Mama Bird had Words with Papa Bird about this eventually less-than-ideal nest locale, because they left before anything was laid in this next. We had the old material (yes, pigeons make crappy nests) removed and now we put up the glass every spring, just in case.

I love these guys. They never bother any other birds and provide endless entertainment with their clumsiness.

3:58 "would they go halves with me on the rent" 😄👍

Every time he says "Oooo Lawrence" I just I just can't! 😂😂😂

I’m so jealous! Mourning doves are the best! We have a robin nesting above our back door and house finches nesting above our front door. The finches get defensive when they feel encroached upon so we pretty much just go inside through the back now lol

@TheSuigin1

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I have Robin nest in my back yr is the 2 time the some Robin come back to is nest again

I really like the haircut! 👍🏼 Looking great Laurence! ✨

I had a pair of Stellar's jays bird friends build a nest in the eaves of a roofed deck outside my front door. Watching their progress on the nest every day, seeing them brooding their eggs, and then finally hearing their little baby birds cheap for food when they would fly up to the nest... 10/10 experience, can not recommend enough

There is nothing like waking up on a cool summer morning to the coo of morning doves. We had them in Michigan and now that we live in California we have them as well. I have been lucky enough to enjoy morning doves my entire life.

technically, if they have their nest or have a personal favorite perch nearby, you will see them all the time. they used to drive my chicken crazy.

Wonderful video! A mourning dove named Queenie commandeered the bird feeder in my childhood back yard. She was clearly in charge and would chase away any other interested avian bathers. My mother adored her and would change the water every day so her royal highness wouldn't need to bathe in icky water.

We had a pair nest on the wires of the telephone pole outside our bedroom window. I watched the two share nesting duties and then feeding duties until the eggs hatched. Now they come back to our backyard every year with new sets of chicks. They are very comfortable even with our dog!

The morning dove sound reminds my childhood 😢

thank you for the heartwarming and relatable Mourning Dove story. when i was a kid, a pair of mourning doves nested every year on the exterior portion of my parent's air conditioner. I thought they were enjoyable to watch.

I’ve had a pair nesting in a low branch of a pine tree in my back yard. I’ve had the joy of seeing two clutches raised this year! Mom and dad are not afraid of us at all, which has made seeing everything much easier. There is a belief that if you’re being visited by doves, a loved one who has passed has a message for you. I thought that was interesting because my best friend of over 20 years passed away just a few months before my doves started showing up.

@windycityliz7711

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Oh, dear. I've had as many as two dozen in my back yard at feeders, especially when bad weather is coming. How many relatives are turning up to haunt me?!?

I have to admit I was quite taken with wood pigeons on my visit to England. I still remember the one large pigeon happily splashing in my moms tiny bird bath.

Absolutely adorable. I recently obsessed over a family of wrens that nested by my back door and can relate to that feeling of loss now that they've flown off.

Thank you for the laughs, "Uncle Laurence." This was beautifully well done! Cheerio!

I live in the country north of Seattle and have a large balcony overlooking a lake. I feed the birds everyday and get a lot of mourning doves, as well as woodpeckers, stellers jays and all sorts of finches and sparrows. At this moment, a flock of American Gold Finches, which I call lemon boys, are feeding outside my window. There is also a large forest pigeon native to thos area, the band-tailed pigeon. They dwarf thecother birds. One of them has been visiting my balcony for four years! I know this sounds churlish, but sometimes so many mourning doves come, I wish they would leave. A large flock can devour a pile of seed in no time. And they can be mean, flapping other birds out of the way with sharp wing slaps! This is our baby bird season, and local bird parents bring fledglings here to teach them "how to eat.". Often, the smarter birds such as jays dump their young here and leave immediately. Others stay and stuff the chick, which is often sitting right in the seed, with food. Feeding and watching birds is a wonderful hobby. My cat watches them too though he is stuck inside. Like your cat, his one true wish is to get at those birds.

I have a birds nest right outside my front door! It’s the coolest thing ever! The Mourning Doves have already laid their eggs. Two the 1st time. & then two more. Makes us ladies all happy in the house to have them very close & see them come & go! ☺️😍

listen, we all feel an unearned sense of honor when we encounter them, either visually or hear their sounds. they elevate every area they coopt quite nicely in a demonstrable way for sure

Lawrence, I would have guessed that Old Fashioned AF was the first American bird you made friends with.

I’m glad you enjoyed it. My porch was taken over by mourning doves. They tried to nest above my door on a 1 inch ledge. They also managed to lay an egg in my ceiling while the roof was being fixed. The baby hatched, fell many feet to the hard floor, was fatally injured and left me traumatized after it died while I was trying to keep it alive… 🥺

We've got several generations of a mourning dove family that visits our feeders and nests nearby. Their favorite pastime is plonking down in the middle of the seed tray and casually snacking while throwing the bits they don't like to the squirrels

What a brilliant piece! We have Mourning Doves that glean the seeds that fall in from our feeders. They're lovely, gentle, skittish creatures.

I had a dove nest outside my window this spring and was so looking forward to watching the baby's grow & fledge... Unfortunately some crows got hungry... I don't think this will be a repeat nesting spot next year :(

I love your cat, and your humor. :) Now I know why the mourning doves in my yard steal nests off the robins, it never occurred to me they couldn't build their own. Sadly, the ones in my yard are far less tidy than yours, and when they are done, the nests are a biohazard, so very unlike how the robins leave a nest.

We’ve had the same family of mourning doves nest on our back patio for years. Not sure what generation we’re on but we love all of them!

Hilarious Lawrence, I’m an American about to hit 40 and I find my knowledge of the habits of my local birds taking over my brain!