Our DoveCam

One day, my husband spotted a really fat dove sitting on a telephone line.
He said to himself, "I bet that dove is going to lay eggs!"
A few days later, a dove was sitting on a nest outside our bedroom window.
We watched the nest for several days - there were two doves and one of them was always sitting on the nest.
When they changed sitters, about twice a day, we could see that there were two eggs.

Click on the links below to see the doves.
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5/27/2006	Changing of the "Guard"	The female dove leaves the nest after the male comes to take over sitting on the eggs.
5/29/2006	Remodeling	The male dove brings pieces of grass as the female adds them to the loosely woven nest.
6/1/2006	First Hatched Day One	The first baby has hatched and the father is feeding it "dove's milk".
6/2/2006	Second Birdie Hatched	The second baby birdie has hatched. The mother feeds it and then takes the empty shell away.
6/4/2006	Two-Three Days Old	You can only see the babies when the parents change off sitting on the nest.
6/7/2006	Preening	The father is preening the hatchlings.
6/9/2006	Feeding and Chipmunk	The father feeds both babies at the same time. Later that morning, a chipmunk attacks the nest.
6/13/2006	Bye-Bye Birdies	The babies flew the nest today.
		Later that evening we saw them still sitting in the tree, but not in the nest, with one of the parent doves.

A day later one of the baby birds was back in the nest and it looked like the parents were showing the young bird how to build a nest.

A day later we looked out and there was a new egg in the nest! The next day there were two eggs!