Oh Baby!

The parent doves near my mom's bathroom window successfully raised a family, which has since flown the coop. I still see them occasionally in the bushes below.

Another successful family of baby doves was raised in the front nest. Mom or dad is close by waiting for the opportunity to feed them.
I think they're just about ready to leave the nest.




The third nest closest to my summer doves cage was unsuccessful. Well almost.
I think what happened was he or she lost he or she's mate so was left to fend for its self and the nest.
He/she eventually got off the nest to feed and I thought would never come back. I haven't seen it all day so I thought the nest was abandon. The eggs were intact, so I took the eggs and let my own doves give it a try. I thought " what the heck its worth a try. They sat on them with no problems. I heard that the dove might have come back, but for me to put the eggs back, it was too late.
A few weeks passed and to my surprise they both hatched a few days ago.
So far so good. The babies are currently healthy and are feeding great. The babies seem to be getting allot of attention from the rest of the doves so much so its really upsetting my main boy Mr tangerine. I put him in charge since he is the best and most experienced at those sort of things. I hope that the babies will continue to be healthy and grow so that eventually I can let them go. In the meant time, I shall not touch them as much in order to keep them wild.
I'll try to take some nice pics.
As for the robin nesting near the garage, still sitting :D .............

Happy Easter every one, even if it’s a late one. Well maybe not too late for all those Orthodox Christians out there. For me it was a bit of an odd one. On my way to church, I noticed a basketball that some kid probably lost, all alone on the corner of a street a few blocks down from my house. I left it alone since there are lots of children in the neighbour hood that might of lost it. Thinking nothing of it I went to church and on with my day. One or two days later there it was on my yard. It was underneath my dad's trailer. Weird, it’s like it followed me home like a lost kitten or something. :o Clue in Twilight zone music. Haha. Oh and here’s a few pics of a surviving Easter egg a former neighbour gave us. It was one of three. I wanted to take pics of all of them but sadly some people have no restraint. Sigh. :p The eggs were naturally coloured using leaves, onionskin for the colouring and a silk stocking. Not exactly sure as to the exact colouring process. :\

Well I managed to get some pics of the robins. Didn't get too close since those birds are kind of skittish. Luckily they're close enough for me to take pics. Would like to take some better ones if the opportunity arises. I think they're about 4 to 5 days old and I think there's about 2 or 3 of them.



Made another nest for my doves today. Its for my little sweetie who is a bit crippled on one leg. She tries to nest with the others, only they give her a hard time about it. So now she has her very own nest in a private part of the outdoor cage. I only hope the others don't take too much notice and let her be. None the less she was quite pleased with it, even excepted a fake egg and some bits of straw and twigs. I could just see her happy face and a sparkle in her eye.