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Since it's the weekend, I was home when the parents swapped places in the afternoon. That is an active feeding time, so I was able to take a picture with a regular digital camera. I had to hide in the doorway to avoid startling them, but I was able to turn up one interesting image:
I found a couple more interesting references on Mourning Doves. Here is one by some folks in Florida. Here is a page from the State of Pennsylvania. I went poking around the Pennsylvania site, and looked at the page on hummingbirds. It offered this peculiar bit of advice:
They recommend painting the insulators black. So, now you know. If you're planning to hang a bird feeder near an electric fence, there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. And you probably shouldn't mention any of this to the folks at Fox TV. Update 4/30: I figured out a way to mount the Kodak DC260 outside and operate it indoors from the laptop. When the father left the nest for a few moments, I was able to take this picture. Looks like three healthy doveoids to me.
Feeding time: Update 5/1: Drama this morning. Another Mourning Dove flew directly into the nest, and apparently it wasn't the father. Mother lunged at it, and it flew away immediately. But it returned a few minutes later, and perched on the balcony rail. The mother dashed right off to chase it away, and quickly returned to the nest.
Feeding Frenzy:
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