I have some time this morning because I have to go to a training class and can leave home a bit later than normal.
It is so cool in the morning before the sun makes its way over the house. I was out in the back and the birds are busy eating the birdseed Sneedlet and I put out. When I open the back door, the birds scatter. The White-winged doves fly up on the patio wall and pace back and forth nervously, waiting for the intruder to go away.
These doves are comical birds. Many people think of them as pests, but I kind of like them. They have necks like the football players, thick things indistinguishable from their shoulders, with a tiny bulb-like head perched atop. Doves are the dunces of our bird population. Every desert-dwelling driver has struck a dove that was perched in the road and too dumb to get out of the way.
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On another topic, what will you do all day after you retire? Ham radio?
Merle, your patio is far greener than I expected it would be, out there in the middle of the desert. (And all your photos of plants notwithstanding.) And doves are the dimwits of the bird world everywhere. The mourning doves in Florida used to get run over with regularity, and of course no one likes pigeons (which are technically rock doves). (Actually I kind of like pigeons, but they are universally hated by everyone else I've spoken to in NYC.)
Why on earth are they sending you to training?? That makes no sense whatsoever.
dove is pretty tasty.
I don't believe in crickets or dove.
Your patio does look like an oasis.
Thanks for all the seeds, man. Those doves eat quite a lot, don't they? Do you have hummingbirds out there? how about chipmunks?
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