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I had posted yesterday and heard back from her today on FB. She and family were in Mississippi to wait out the storm. Everybody ok but very worried that their homes won't be there when they are able to go back.
They've made a nest the past 2 springs in the tree outside my balcony in AZ. I'm pretty sure they would have used the same nest but I had seen other birds taking pieces of it away earlier in the season, presumably to make their own nests elsewhere. The doves picked a branch a little higher but same tree. No way to know if it was the same pair of doves, though. Apparently mourning doves are protected in the area and nests cannot be moved no matter where they are until the chicks have fledged and abandoned it. The yoga instructor told me a friend of her husband found a nest in (on? maybe it was a pickup) his vehicle (he'd left it over the weekend at his workplace) and he had to leave it there so couldn't use his car for the duration because of that. I've been able to see the chicks in the nests but haven't been there at the right time to see them take their first flights. Would love to see that sometime but don't think it's worth hanging around in the heat for it.
Oh, right. I had my mind focused on doves. The ones in Maine that keep nesting in my screen house are phoebes. I'm hoping the screens stay intact over the winter so I won't have them visiting next year. I've taken the nest down but did that last year, too, and they found a way in to build another one. Had to wait for their second brood to fledge before I could use the screenhouse which was early July. I was not a happy camper about that.
Definitely a pigeon, not a dove, or at least what we call a pigeon here.