can anyone here identify a bird for me?

[ohMom]

i have an arbor with trumpet vine covering it and in trimming it back this week I noticed a bird's nest with two eggs. later i found the bird in the nest and snapped this photo -- can anyone tell me for sure what kind of bird it is? my DH thought maybe a small type of dove? btw -- i live in Central Ohio if that makes a difference

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I just bought a bird book for my DS the other day.

To me, it appears to be a Mourning Dove. Clues: you said smallish - book says slim body; habitat: brushy areas. But listen to this: "Mourning doves build a flimsy nest of sticks, usually in an evergreen tree close to the trunk. Two eggs make a set". Also, "the parents share incubating duties, the male during the day and the mate at night" so look for a mate. We have a lot of mourning doves near my house, I listen to them every morning.

The other types of doves listed are Common Ground Dove, Rock Dove (Pigeon), and White-winged Dove, but the picture looks most like a Mourning Dove.

 

[ohMom]

hey thank you -- i compressed the picture for faster uploading and wow it got small but your book descriptions seems very much like what i have here. did it say how long for the eggs to hatch??

 

[Pea-n-Me]

The only other thing it says is "the young are fed by regurgitation, then gradually weaned to insects and the adult's main food, seeds". Maybe you could google it.

My kids just had chicks hatch in their class and did a whole study on that. I believe in their case it was about 30 days.

 

[Dizzy for Dsny]

Definately a dove - I have them all over my backyard. I had one nest this spring over my swing in my shade garden. They have a call that sounds like whoo ooo(higher pitch) whoo, whoo, whoo. They also tend to eat bird seed on the ground under your feeder as opposed to sitting on the feeder.

Hope this helps!

 

[Luvchefmic]

i have an arbor with trumpet vine covering it and in trimming it back this week I noticed a bird's nest with two eggs. later i found the bird in the nest and snapped this photo -- can anyone tell me for sure what kind of bird it is? my DH thought maybe a small type of dove? btw -- i live in Central Ohio if that makes a difference

She is beautiful and yes she is a mourning dove, my dear departed fil had built a rather crude all wood bird feeder on a metal pole in the family front yard and I know as long as I have been a part of this family these doves have been here, my mil has had this house (now ours) since the 1950s and they come back yr after yr I put out the bird seed 2xs a day and watch them while looking out the kitchen window, I would be so sad if they didn't come back but they do there are so sweet and gentile

 

[rockyroad]

You probably don't want to know that doves are a game bird.

Well, not to me, but to "bird hunters"

Where we live it sounds live Sarajevo during dove season.

 

[Luvchefmic]

You probably don't want to know that doves are a game bird.

Well, not to me, but to "bird hunters"

Where we live it sounds live Sarajevo during dove season.

I don't hunt, but do have English Pointer rescue dogs....apparently they don't hunt either some of my family does hunt, I have nothing against it, to each his/her own....they just can't visit me... the birds flock in my yard and laugh at my dogs