Who knows Doves ?

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rebeltf

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Might be a dumb topic here but this has really got me curious.

Long story short , I had a pair of Doves that made a nest in one of my hanging plants on my patio , I like to smoke and have some coffee on my patio , after a few days of seeing me the Doves would not fly off anymore , I could even reach up and clip dead leaves off the plant and the nesting Dove would just look at me , it was sorta cool , well a Bluejay scared them off not too long after.

So this morning i'm smokin and talking to my Dad on the phone and this Dove flies right into my patio and starts pecking around for twigs and waddles right up to me as if either i'm not there or he/she is not the least scared of me , I thought maybe it just didnt see me that time but a few minutes later it came back and got even closer , heck I could have reached down and petted it if I wanted to.

My question is anyone know anything about Dove behavior ? I'm sort of fascinated by this.

Thanks.
 
They calm down when I make breast of dove on toast - delicious !! Did you see the recent post including a link about raising dove in the old days ? Dove and pidgeon are fairly easy to raise.
 
If they're white, they're probably somebody's pet doves or the ones they release at weddings sometimes. Maybe they've always been around people.

White or grey, wild or tame, all are delicious when prepared correctly.
 
When I had an apartment in CA., there was a pot just outside and above my door. Some Doves made a nest in it. They were very sweet birdies! They were very friendly. They were grey Doves. I don't know what else to tell you.
 
Quite tasty if you wrapped the breasts in bacon, and grill them till the bacon is crispy.
 
Interesting , the photos he took.

I'm thinking the dove just got used to me since it saw me so many times on my patio when it had it's old nest and I never bothered it.
That would indicate doves have a memory though , hmm ?

Yea I know dove is tasty , I've had bbq'd dove breasts more than a few times. :p
 
I've had 6 generations (I think) of doves nesting under my sheltered front stoop here. They relaxed enough to allow me to get within a few feet while taking photos but never showed any behavior like what you described.


The extent of my knowledge of mourning dove nesting behavior: The female will lay one egg in the daytime and another 12 hours later, at night. The male and female switch off day and night shifts incubating the eggs. If the baby doves die (or get eaten by a short skinned hawk. I wish I had my camera when that fella came through!) the mama dove will usually lay two more eggs of which only one is likely to hatch. That last has happened 3 times here anyway.

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I'd rather be dove hunting, but it reminds me of an instant where my kids found two doves blown out of their nest much smaller than the pics above. We got some mush from the pet store, and I couldn't believe that they really perked up grew. They'd sit really nicely on the base of their cage without the cover and the kids got a real kick out of rattling the food container and have them fly over and land on their shoulder or dribble water in the sink and they'd take a bath. I thought no way could they fend for themselves, but they took off when they were ready. Go figure, I still have better memories of some great dove hunts.
Take care, Craig
 
The ones that come to my birdfeeder act pretty much the same way, after awhile they just ignore me and walk right by.
 
cden said:
I'd rather be dove hunting, but it reminds me of an instant where my kids found two doves blown out of their nest much smaller than the pics above. We got some mush from the pet store, and I couldn't believe that they really perked up grew. They'd sit really nicely on the base of their cage without the cover and the kids got a real kick out of rattling the food container and have them fly over and land on their shoulder or dribble water in the sink and they'd take a bath. I thought no way could they fend for themselves, but they took off when they were ready. Go figure, I still have better memories of some great dove hunts.
Take care, Craig
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Wow great stories folks.

Funny how nature can sometime come into your life.
 
My mother has had Doves nesting on her front porch in a hanging planter for about 10 years. At family get togethers there would be as many as 10 or 15 people come and look at there nests and they would stay right there and let you get within 2 foot of them. I had heard that they would come back to the same nest year after year. Don't know if it true though.
 
Rock doves can be a little stand-offish but mourning doves very quickly become acclimated to close encounters with people and will allow you to handle them if you build up to it slowly.
 
Doves need a serious lesson in traffic manners. One laminated my side mirror yesterday. Inconsiderate bird took 10min to wash off before he dried and baked.
 
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