Have seen everything now......we now have morning doves setting up housekeeping in our

[a kennedy]

previously held robins and last year sparrows nest!!!! I couldn’t believe it……my husband had put up this platform for robins at least 20 years ago. We have lived here for 24 years, and the robins have built their nest for all that time. Last year sparrows took over the platform, just reused the robins nest. I used to knock the robins nest off the platform so I could watch them build a new one every year. Last year I just couldn’t get around to knocking the nest off so it’s there now, and this year……..OMGosh, there are mourning doves pecking at the old nest material, and I’m sure getting ready to set up housekeeping in it!!!!! It will be so fun watching them, I love morning doves.

[Ocelot II]

1. Mourning doves. They're called that because their call sounds kind of sad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning_dove Sometimes they're called "rain crows," though that name is usually applied to the yellow-billed cuckoo, a southern species. I haven't seen mourning doves around here lately, used to hear them all the time.

[BigMin28]

2. I had a pair nest under the roof of my patio

It was a lot of fun to watch them, and see the baby dove. They had three clutches that year, two little one in each.

[SARose]

3. A pair nested in a patio pot last year

Weiner dogs left them alone and didn’t bark.

We tip toed around a few days and realized Mama dove wasn’t bothered. She did give us the stink eye a couple of times.

[Easterncedar]

5. The mother is brave

She will stay on the nest despite threats.

Very fun to watch the parents raise the chicks. They are devoted, and the family seems to stick together for a long time after the littles aren’t little any more.

[CTyankee]

4. I can hear ours but I never have seen them, nor where they nesting. What do they look like?

[Fla Dem]

6. I have 6 and sometimes up to 9 Mouring Doves at my feeders every day.

It used to be 10, but a freaking hawk swooped in and grabbed one a couple of months ago. I saw it happening so I went out yelling at him to drop her, but no luck.

[a kennedy]

9. I hear ya......when I was working I was in a spot where I could see a lot of the outdoors.....

I was even feeding squirrels that would come to the entrances of the place where I worked…….then one day just after feeding the squirrels a hawk swooped in picked up the squirrel and flew away with it. I never got over it. I almost had to leave work…..was just sick over it.

[spooky3]

7. Several years ago we had a robin's nest built on an exterior lamp

The babies grew quickly!

This year, there is a nest under the awning, on the roller, so I don’t want to open it under they have all flown away.

[Biophilic]

8. My friends have a pair that lay their eggs on the screen roof of their lanai.

They nest close to the edge under some palm fronds. They don't really make a nest, just a few pieces of grass. This is their third year. they have 2-4 batches of eggs. The second batch is ready to be left alone for several hours. The mother dove actually laid another egg there besides the other babies and then left. It wasn't long before the egg mysteriously rolled off the edge. First egg to roll off . The youngsters aren't talking.

[a kennedy]

10. I know, we did have a dove platform before we replaced our garage and there was

no room for the platform, but when we did have one we would just laugh at their “nest” about 5 - 6 sticks as you say. that’s why it’s so funny they’re on the robins nest. It’s so different than what they usually make.

[Biophilic]

11. Yeah, they've moved up into a nicer house without any work at all. Smart birds. nt

[Paladin]

12. Wish we could attract something other than doves.

We put lots of feed out, but there's a huge squirrel population in our neighborhood, and the only birds we see are doves (both mourning and whitewing). There's a pair of cardinals we see every once in a while, but that's about it. We'll keep trying.