09-07-2006, 12:53 AM
[cool][#0000ff]I dug up some old print photos and scanned some to share here. It brought back a lot of fun memories. We had several of the doves that we nursed back to health, after run-ins with neighborhood cats or kids. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As the pics show, they would actually come right inside our house, looking for handouts. A couple of them liked to perch on the paper holder TubeBabe used for doing her computer projects. Others just walked around on the carpet, looking for any stray seeds we had dropped...and often leaving "something" of themselves behind for the vacuum cleaner.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]They were wild birds and did not go into many yards, but we were on their "friendly" list I guess.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We actually had about 4 different kinds of doves that came in to our yard down there: mourning dove, whitewing, the little Inca doves and the ringnecks. On one occasion, while living in Chandler, we also had a golden pheasant land in our back yard for the free eats. Unfortunately he met with a sudden case of "lead poisoning" (a shot to the head from my pellet gun) and became a supply of fly tying feathers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I included a couple of shots of one of the white doves. We called her "Princess" because she acted kinda snooty and seldom really interacted with the lowly ringnecks. She just hung out with them for companionship and group protection...except during nesting time. Then she got frisky with the riff raff for awhile but never did sit on a nest.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As the pics show, they would actually come right inside our house, looking for handouts. A couple of them liked to perch on the paper holder TubeBabe used for doing her computer projects. Others just walked around on the carpet, looking for any stray seeds we had dropped...and often leaving "something" of themselves behind for the vacuum cleaner.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]They were wild birds and did not go into many yards, but we were on their "friendly" list I guess.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We actually had about 4 different kinds of doves that came in to our yard down there: mourning dove, whitewing, the little Inca doves and the ringnecks. On one occasion, while living in Chandler, we also had a golden pheasant land in our back yard for the free eats. Unfortunately he met with a sudden case of "lead poisoning" (a shot to the head from my pellet gun) and became a supply of fly tying feathers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I included a couple of shots of one of the white doves. We called her "Princess" because she acted kinda snooty and seldom really interacted with the lowly ringnecks. She just hung out with them for companionship and group protection...except during nesting time. Then she got frisky with the riff raff for awhile but never did sit on a nest.[/#0000ff]
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