Birders

littlemissmartypants

(27,064 posts) Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:19 AM Mar 20

Mourning Dove

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Mourning dove call
https://www.bird-sounds.net/mourning-dove/

It's so nice to be able to listen to the lovely calls every morning. I don't know how many I have been blessed with here on the farm but I can hear them from different directions as I move around the house. There's something very sweet and peaceful about the sound.

Have you ever heard the call of a Mourning dove? Where were you?

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Mourning Dove (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Mar 20 OP

Oh yes 🌞 I have a birdseed dish near my kitchen window. I get lots of doves and cardinals TommieMommy Mar 20 #1

❤️ littlemissmartypants Mar 20 #3

The Mourning Dove's call was probably the first bird call I learned as a child. Diamond_Dog Mar 20 #2

❤️ littlemissmartypants Mar 20 #4

there is a mourning dove at the cemertary where mom is interred in the cremation wall . love its calls. AllaN01Bear Mar 20 #5

When I first stayed on a farm in Ohio Easterncedar Mar 21 #6

Thank you so much for sharing this, Easterncedar. It's a truly lovely story to share. littlemissmartypants Mar 21 #7

Thank you for opening the conversation Easterncedar Mar 21 #8

❤️ littlemissmartypants Mar 21 #10

Their nests are such a loose sparse bunch of twigs Easterncedar Mar 21 #9

TommieMommy

(1,737 posts)

1. Oh yes 🌞 I have a birdseed dish near my kitchen window. I get lots of doves and cardinals

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Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:27 AM

Mar 20

littlemissmartypants

(27,064 posts)

3. ❤️

Reply to TommieMommy (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:35 AM

Mar 20

Diamond_Dog

(36,449 posts)

2. The Mourning Dove's call was probably the first bird call I learned as a child.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:31 AM

Mar 20

We had them in our backyard as I recall. They are such lovely birds.

littlemissmartypants

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4. ❤️

Reply to Diamond_Dog (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 09:35 AM

Mar 20

AllaN01Bear

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5. there is a mourning dove at the cemertary where mom is interred in the cremation wall . love its calls.

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Thu Mar 20, 2025, 11:59 AM

Mar 20

sounds like oh heck u, oh heck u.

Easterncedar

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6. When I first stayed on a farm in Ohio

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Fri Mar 21, 2025, 11:39 AM

Mar 21

I was a teen, and i thought there were owls calling!

40 states have seasons for hunting. The federally set limit is 15 a day. I have an article in my hand (print newspaper!) saying 1 million hunters kill altogether 20 million doves in the US every year.

I used to watch them build their nests in the display yard of the plant nursery I worked at in western NY. We’d put “sold” tags on the shrubs they used, to protect them. We could come quite close to see the dove sitting on her nest (she was brave and didn’t move) and then see hatchlings. They grew fast with both parents working all day to feed them. Lovely creatures.